Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing took on the automated “censors” at the new Microsoft blogging service and posts the amusing results. An attempt to create a blog called “Pornography and the Law” failed, while “Butt Sex is Awesome” was approved.
My pointer to the post came from Dan Gillmor at We, the Media. Gillmor wrote:
This will make Microsoft an object of derision in the blogosphere. Better to do it right, and let people say what they want to say.
Also on the new Microsoft blog space, J.D. Lasica calls the deep links between the blogging space and other Microsoft only services the Achilles heel of the new offering.
Blogging is about citizens media, not corporate media. It’s about the rest of us having a voice, having a platform or soapbox, taking our media back. It’s not an AOL-like walled garden with proprietary services.
Lasica writes that blogging is one medium that Microsoft will never dominate and he’s right: blogging is about distributed knowledge, interlinked conversation and dispersed media. In short, everything Microsoft isn’t.
