Comments on: Microsoft flip-flop may signal blog clog

Redmond's U-turn on abbreviating Web logs may portend a looming bandwidth crunch.

What a crock!

Leave it to Microsoft to focus on how to limit free speech in a new medium versus cracking down on the spammers. Gartner reports that 31% of all e-mail traffic is spam, yet Microsoft is blaming bloggers for network congestion?? Yeah, right Bill! And you believe Dan Rather????
This is why CBS and Microsoft are doomed in the long run.

[Prndll]

This is crazy.....

This whole thing is crazy.....

Web logs...blogs.....

The "real" bandwidth hogs are coming from spam and online advertising. If you want "operational efficiency", get rid of spam and online advertising. How much bandwidth is needlessly wasted on making sure that I see a dozen ads between the pulling up of CNET's website and the posting of this post? If I were to print out a map from mapquest, there would be an ad printed that I don't even see on the screen. Pictures take more than text.....

Ya know...
technicly, this post is a web log. Any time you go to a website, that action is logged on a server somewhere...doesn't that constitute a weblog? What happens on blogs are really no differant than what happens here, or on any other site.

[xbhatti]

Blogs and Normalization theory

I think a normalization scheme for RSS etc., analgous to the normalization found in the databases -- needs to be proposed. This would allow smart querying of resource found in the feeds. Read about it at http://www.khaitan.org/mt/archives/000027.html