Zapping of the blogosphere, 15 June 2008

Here are some notes read with interest this weekend:

Bloguez.com (no link, of course) is homophobic! That is what I learn by reading Compteur.cc, Bloguez.com: at your own risk ... (I keep it for the con of the day). History has something to do shudder, especially when one reads that on blogs hosted by bloguez.com, "it is forbidden on its [...] disseminate pages with content or form encourages and promotes homosexuality, prostitution, pedophilia, "And that's not all, also read the paragraphs on compteur.cc. Sorry!

Remember survey hearings of the blogosphere French Monetiweb we talk about? The results were released. About 1400 respondents, 44% of them have less than 2,000 unique visitors per month. Even if the number of bloggers who responded to both questions is fairly low, the study remains interesting.

On the Journal Blog, I discovered a new digg-like, Enooorme, created by The driver of buzz. Its uniqueness? The links are validated manually before being accepted.

Le Petit Robert has added in its 2009 edition, the words blogosphere, identifying, audiolivre, podcasts, etc..

Make a cake shaped R2D2, the robot of Star Wars? Nothing could be easier following the instructions of B-Side Blog ticket in his Making The Most Amazing R2-D2 Cake Ever. Yum!