Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Microsoft
Is Windows Live (MSN) Spaces the world's biggest blogging service?
According to Richard MacManus, Windows Live General Manager George Moore told an audience at Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference in New Zealand yesterday that Windows Live Spaces (formerly MSN Spaces) is "now the largest blogging service on the planet," and his assertion is causing a bit of a stir. Microsoft says there are 72 million Spaces in existence, but former Microsoftie Robert Scoble says maybe that's so, but are they really all blogs? Scoble says no, and outlines his idea of what makes and doesn't make blog. "First, let's define what a blog is, at least enough to count for this purpose.- Have original content. Spam blogs that are copied off of somewhere else don't count.
- Have at least 500 words of new text-based content every month. Things that look like Flickr streams aren't blogs, sorry.
- Have at least two posts in at least the past 30 days. If you aren't posting, you're not blogging.
- I don't care if you have comments, have trackbacks, have blogrolls, or any of that."
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
