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"Yesterday, Fi (Fantasy Interactive) sent out alpha invitations to their new product, Kontain. This is one product I’ve signed up and (not very) patiently waited for its launch, as it should be pretty revolutionary in terms of user-friendliness. Basically, it’s the first Flash-based blogging platform open to world wide free public access." - Alex Cristache

Who needs a Flash-based blogging platform? It's inaccessible. Each page weighs at least 400Kbytes. Maybe someone would use Flash-based blogging tools, but the reader also needs Flash to view even your text and image content. I don't get it. Isn't this why we have standards like JavaScript? - Benjamin Doherty

Benjamin, the Flash Player is installed on the majority of computers these days. That's not the real problem. Also, no matter how much we complain about it, the dial-up era is gone. 400Kb per page? We should analyze standard blogging platforms and see much their pages weight, with tons of widgets & slow loading gadgets using external APIs. This is a great product for those that find "drag and drop" type of actions easier. It would be a whole lot easier to explain Kontain to my father rather than WP. - Alex Cristache

Do you create multiple accounts in social media platforms - one for your business or agency and another personal? If you just use one account for everything, where do you draw the line at sharing personal stuff, discussing politics, etc.? - LauraBrarian

Wow, thanks to those who commented directly on my blog. Friendfeed rocks. Guess I might have to get back into blogging again! - LauraBrarian

of course I am. No I'm not. - Bwana

Very cool - they don't just have the cover shots - they also have the Cover Trys... - Robyn Hawk

Twitter down. 3 million tweeple working again. Economic indicators jump. - Mike Lizun

Tina took my answer! - Nine

Perhaps they could use a hedgehog. - Ontario Emperor

Original link is all bandwidthed out - Here's an alternate. - Carlos Granier-Phelps via Bookmarklet

My Dad is a journalist. Since a young age, I was exposed to typewriters, printing presses and the smell of fresh ink. Back in the early 70’s, newspaper production was a difficult cycle that took a lot of effort and manual labor. What hasn’t changed from those years is the need for professional, thought-provoking and unique content. Providing this content should be the focus of the newspaper industry. - Jorge Escobar via Bookmarklet

Agreed. Although I'd call it the news or journalism industry. The paper part of it is irrelevant when it comes to content. - Badger Gravling

too bad murdoch's newspapers don't often reach beyond dead ideas. http://www.guardian.co.uk/medi... [http://www.guardian.co.uk/medi...] - Benjamin Doherty via IM