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It's sort of my job, sort of my hobby, and just sort of what I do.

However, I do know how to turn off the dang computer, walk away, and get on with "real life".

Keeping in touch with people online is cool, communicating with people through blog comments can be super neat at times, but suddenly social networking has taken a weird turn.

I feel like every where I turn people are literally having a mental breakdown all over their keyboards.

I came across incredibly brilliant (and by brilliant I mean so good that when I read it I went into a mad, jealous rage cursing the fact that it wasn't written by me) blog post called "Is your self-worth wrapped up in your blog?

" by Lorelle VanFossen.

Basically, Lorelle write about how some of us can get so wrapped up in blogs, that even having one bad comment can cancel out all of the good comments that we received.

Does that one bit of negativity ruin your day?

Does it keep you up at night thinking, "I can't believe that.

That was so mean!

They didn't even listen to what I said!

" Our blogs are essentially projection of who we are, on any given day and time.

The posts we write capture who we were on Friday, 27th April, 2007.

Or Thursday, 11th January, 2006.

It really is a beautiful thing.

However, some people's egos get captured in those blogs, as well.

Some cannot handle the negative reactions to their posts.

People disagreein...

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« links for 2007-04-25 | Main April 26, 2007 Sky responds to my mini-rant Posted by Kevin Anderson A few weeks back, I posted what I called a mini-rant after watching Sky business editor Michael Wilson on air and then was directed to go to the Sky News site to respond on their blog.

It took me a while on their old-look site to actually find the blog, but I wasn’t impressed at what I found.

I have to give the Sky News website team some points in responding to my rant.

Julian March sets out their And business producer Peter Hoskins left a comment and calls me out for having the sound turned down on that day.

I will admit that, although I’...

Can't imagine it working with the big boys.

Built on Tradespace is also BT Applications Marketplace, a platform for ISVs to market and publish their software.

The old dinosaur is finally getting into the on-demand model too; all the software on the site is delivered as a service.

If they can match up buyers and sellers effectively, there's a big untapped market there – you can be sure that BT isn't getting into this out of sheer philanthropy.

Well, that is all very interesting, but the only reason I really went to the launch of all this exciting stuff was to meet Sarah Beeny – she's got a great personality, apparently.

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