Brendan Gates

Have you heard of Storify? It’s like a blog, in that it’s long form social media. But where it differs is that Storify is highly integrated with other social networks and can easily pull in outside elements for commentary. I used it to narrate a series of beer themed twitter exchanges between a local brewery and well, the people it angered. Check out my attempt here: http://storify.com/_bgates/aggressive-ales

For the last several years, I’ve hosted my blog with Dreamhost. The experience hasn’t been perfect, but it’s been pretty good. Certainly better than my experiences with GoDaddy and Yahoo, for sure.

Anyway, Dreamhost allows you to create referral codes for your friends. The way it works is that you get a referral bonus when you sign up one of your friends… however, if you want, you can choose to put that bonus into the referral code – making it an even better deal for the person signing up. The max I can choose to put into the code is $97 off hosting, or $15 towards a free domain name and $82 off hosting, or some other similar combination.

So if you’re looking for a new web host, consider using Dreamhost and one of these codes:
MORESPACE4KATHY
HAHAFUNNY

Both codes have the discount maxed out, and can be used by an unlimited number of people. Dreamhost also offers unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth on their shared hosting plans (what I use). Not too shabby…

SVT is the national broadcaster of Sweden, similar to the UK’s BBC. They put together a documentary on Wikileaks; and it’s a very comprehensive, if not slightly sympathetic, look at the organization and who is behind it. I recommend watching.

Update 12-2012: I noticed that the embedded SVT video was broken so I replaced it with the YouTube version.

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