thisblogismyblog: Obi-Wan’s appearance at the Pinewood Derby occurs between the events of Episode III and Episode IV.

I found this new blogging client for Blackberry and it seems to work fine with my bb 8830 and my WordPress 2.3.2 blog.

The name of the client is BB Meta Blog Blackberry Client and I am posting this with it.

Does anyone know of any other Blackberry blog clients?

Inside Cable News today is reporting on the sale of the domain names ireport.com and i-report.com to CNN. Domainer Rick Schwartz sold the names to CNN for $750,000.
Note that Rick bought the domains in 1997, long before CNN had ever thought of creating its ireport service (I wrote about its launch here).

So why does Inside Cable News title their story Cyber-squatting pays off? WIkipedia defines cybersquatting as follows:

Cybersquatting, according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.

Was registering the domain ireport.com almost 11 years ago something done in bad faith? Surely not. I would bet Rick’s wife thought he was crazy 11 years ago; buying domain names that had no present value. It’s called speculation, and there’s nothing illegal, immoral, or unethical about it. No one had any claim to the term “ireport” at the time.

Now his speculating has paid off, but please don’t paint it with the “cybersquatting” brush, ICN. That’s just incorrect. Registering “BruceSpringsteen.com” and hoping to sell it to the Bruce for a big payday is indeed cybersquatting, but registering generic terms and made up words is not. It’s just capitalism.

Update: ICN has changed the title of their article to Domain name speculation pays off, noting that the term ‘Cybersquatting’ doesn’t apply in this case. All media outlets should learn how to issue a correction like this one, with humility.

Even if you are not a programmer, Rails Is a Ghetto is a must read.

We migrated two more blogs from BlogHarbor to PressHarbor last night, please visit:

• Adventures in home working
• SAST Wingees

who posted about their migration experiences here and here.

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I am sitting here in room S219 at BlogWorld Expo and was expecting to see Om Malik (www.gigaom.com), Mike Arrington (www.techcrunch.com), and Leo LaPorte (leoville.com) talk about The Cult of Blogging but Om Malik “couldn’t make it” and Mike Arrington “forgot all about” BlogWorld Expo.

So now we are listening to Leo interview iJustine while interjecting with stories about when he was using The Well and lynx and gopher. Yawn.

If I had Dave Winer’s chutzpah I would stand up and call bullshit on this.

Update: Om Mailik had a bad back, and Mike Arrington said he “never agreed to attend the conference“, although he apparently did agree to attend as long as Blogworld paid his airfare and hotel but some signals apparently got crossed later on, according convention organizer Rick Calvert. Arringon says in his blog post “the first I heard about the event was early this week” but Calvert shows emails from Arrington confirming he will attend… Gotta love it!

Now I love reading Jason Calacanis, but this post where he makes the statement:

Now, the fact that I’ve had a top story *twice* in two weeks with my tiny little 10,000 person a day blog speaks volumes for the power of TechMeme. The fact that folks who you’ve never heard of before TechMeme get the top slot 10x more than I do is EVEN MORE TELLING.

really cracks me up. You have a blog with 10,000 people reading it daily and you really think you can call that a “tiny little” blog? That is so out of touch, or I am really missing the satire (quite possible). 10,000 daily readers would have to put you in the Top 1% of all blogs in the so-called blogosphere, a fact which Jason surely is aware of, so don’t for a minute fall into the trap of believing that 10K daily readers makes for a tiny, little blog.

If you’re a blogger with a tenth of that volume, 1K readers a day say, you have a very large audience. For a blog, that is. The vast majority of your peers have a fraction of that audience.