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Article comments
1 - Anna Creech
Is this book recommended reading?
2 - roger nowosielski
Only if you're a geek.
3 - Robert M. Barga
hmph
4 - Irene Wagner
No, Roger Nowosielski. It is only for geeks who are complete idiots.
5 - roger nowosielski
Well, you don't have to do add more shit to the pile. And I'd better get your fill of BC before they shut down. I'll stick around if you're game. It's boring without other minds.
6 - roger nowosielski
you'd better ...
7 - Irene Wagner
LOL...Look at the book's title.
8 - Irene Wagner
But I'm busy reading your article and associated thread now. I dasn't comment before I've read it all three times.
9 - roger nowosielski
Swell!
10 - kim Inglis
Has technorati been hacked or gone into bankruptcy? The support forums are littered with complains, closed topics and the newest posts seem to be 2 months old. I can not log out, cleared cache, cookies, reset all three browsers, now i cant log in. Cant post any messages in support, login takes me to home page, and other links take me to..well it's a lottery where i end up. I can not log in, reset password, activation code doesnt work, get taken back to home page. By the comments in the forums I would say technorati is done
11 - roger nowosielski
What you're seeing is the Peter Principle in action, applied to the corporate level.
It's no longer a mom& pop site, and those are the breaks.
12 - kim
that could be understatement of the week. In a literal sense it's really turned into a mom and pops site - nothing works and you never get a reply!