Beastie Boys Rapper MCA Diagnosed With Throat Cancer
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This is a bit out of sync with the normal type of posts on my blog, but MCA from the group Beastie Boys has announced on YouTube that he has been diagnosed with cancer of the throat.
Here's the video:
Breaking news? Yes. Linkbait? Perhaps...
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Entrecard Quick Drop: Shut Down or Be Removed
From an email from Entrecard:
Greetings,
This message is to inform you that effective July 1, 2008, Entrecard will be purging from its system the accounts of all members currently operating "Quick Drop Pages". We have assembled a massive list of all quick drop pages, and starting on the above mentioned date, we are going to go through the entire list and close the accounts of all the owners.
To avoid having your account with Entrecard permanently removed, you must take down your quick drop page before July 1. If we open a quick drop page with your widget on it, your account will be removed from Entrecard without warning.
What is a Quick Drop Page?
Here is an example:http://entrecard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/screenhunter_02-jun-26-1736.gif
Quick drop pages are single pages with your Entrecard widget, made to load quickly and display your widget and not much else. Many quick drop pages have just a widget, and maybe an ad or some other type of widget. If you have a quick drop page, you must take it down immediately.
Why are Quick Drop Pages bad?
Quick drop pages devalue our network as a whole, by motivating members to drop on the same, quick loading pages, en masse to gain credits quickly and efficiently. Their traffic is going to these quick drop pages instead of being dispersed among quality blogs. It goes against the spirit of Entrecard, and is essentially a scheme to gain credits quickly.How will you find them?
Luckily for us, people running "quick drop", or "powerdrop" pages have listed themselves all over the internet, and we've amassed a list that we believe includes every power drop page in existence. Additionally, members dropping on "quick drop pages" may start receiving stiff credit penalties for every drop they do on quick drop pages, as it is not a visit to a blog and thus an illegal drop.For more info see our blog:
http://entrecard.com/blog/?p=399
I have removed my Entrecard quick-drop page from this site. Since a decent chunk of my traffic comes from Entrecard, I value having an account with them.
I can't really understand how it affects the value of their network, but I can see how it really defeats the purpose of EARNING your Entrecard credits by dropping on other blogs.
I would like to see them go back to the old method of pricing advertisements. Ah well, it's their network. Whatever they want to do...
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Breaking News: Entrecard Says ‘We Don’t Need No Water…’
This email just came across the wire from Entrecard, who has been suffering from a major outage today:
Greetings,
Unfortunately, there has been an electrical fire at the data center housing Entrecard's servers. The servers have not been damaged, but the site may be down for as long as 12 hours.
Entrecard is hosted with ThePlanet, and this fire has effected over 9000 websites, as many of the world's most popualar websites are hosted with ThePlanet. They are working around the clock to get their data center back online, and we are hoping that they get it back online fast.
Thank you for your pateince and understanding with this rare and frustrating problem. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing we can do but wait for The Planet to get their datacenter back online.
Please check back with Entrecard in 12 to 24 hours.
Thanks,
Entrecard Team
That explains the outage...
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