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The Viral Garden has done a nice job of uncover the Internet's 25 most popular marketing blogs. Why should you care? Well, the latest trends and techniques in marketing are bound to turn up on one of these blogs long before you'll read about it in your local paper.

After profiles on digg.com and MSNBC, the Great News Network surpassed the 20,000 visitor per day mark. The site has received great reviews for its comprehensive summary of the day's positive news and its easy-to-use layout. The site also provides a great system of positive news RSS feeds based on topic and region.

If you're not using Mozilla Firefox, you should be (unless you're running a Mac). One of Firefox's best features is its ability to utilize "Extensions". Extensions are little programs that make the browser do extra little things. Visit mozilla to learn more and get some of your own.

Here's a term you should know: social bookmarking. What is it? Why should you care?

A meme is like a gene, but of culture. It is self-replicating and often infectious, a piece of information that passes from one person to another (and through the electronic media) like a virus. They can be folk wisdom, advertising jingles, trends, fashions, styles, and technology that make up today's cultural genome. Online, memes are everything. I'll post more about all of this soon.

After many months of planning and work, we've finally launched our new website. This is a major plank in the development of Yellowseed 2.0 - a faster, friendlier and better quality web design company. We redesigned our logo, motto, accounting, customer support and we've made a new committment to web standards like XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 (Painful irony: this site isn't completely compliant - dratted Internet Explorer has forced us to comprise). Anyways, hope you enjoy it and if you have any questions please email us or send a ticket through our Consulting and Support system.

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.