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Yesterday, I received a strange email from a friend. It was a petition demanding the end to "bonsai kitten" - a pasttime in which a person stuffs a live kitten into a small glass jar for a year with the hope of creating a shrunken and distorted "bonsia" cat. My friend had received the email about bonsai kitten from another friend, and because she has a good social conscience, immediately forwarded it to everybody she knew. Sound familiar?

Lunarpages.com got nailed by a denial of service (a.k.a. DoS) attack today, resulting in a number of their servers being unavailable. A number of Yellowseed clients are hosted at Lunarpages but, thankfully, only 1 client was affected. Their site was unavailable for about 15 minutes at around 10:30am.

So, what is a Denial of Service attack?

You've already heard that businesses are using blogs as a way of talking to their customers, employees, and investors in a more personal way (Here's an example if you need more evidence than what you're reading right now). Blogging makes a company seem more human and community focussed despite a global medium that de-emphasizes face-to-face contact.

Not to overstate the point, but I think the blogosphere is the foundation of tomorrow's media.