I can see the AP’s point if people were blockquoting an entire article. But, most bloggers take a paragraph or two to make a point and link back to the original.

It’s beneficial for the site receiving the incoming link — I’ve followed links back to the original story after seeing a quote that piqued my interest.

What I think will happen is people will just re-write what they’ve read. Instead of grabbing a blockquote, a blogger could be creative write their own content.

That could be beneficial for bloggers since they wouldn’t have to worry about duplicate content penalties from Google and copyright issues.

The basement at our new place is great — it’s unfinished, so we have a project to keep us busy sometime in the future. (We learned a lot from fixing up the basement in our old house, especially the value of having good lighting in a basement in making the space one that is enjoyable — rather than utilitarian.

The basement is the size as the upstairs floor plan, so when we put up drywall, I’m going to try to keep it as open as possible so that natural light can still make its way into all areas from the various windows in the basement and because it makes it cool to have a wide open place for the kids to play.

I haven’t watched the video yet — I’m going to have to check it out.

So how are you liking your new house? I’m SO jealous that you have a BASEMENT! LOL! Oh what I would give to send the kids down to play…or for David to be able to go downstairs to work so he can’t hear all the neighborhood boys playing basketball out front. (He gets SO mad at them!) Not to mention the need for protection from tornados! If we ever are able to get out of this house our next one will have a basement if nothing else.

Have you watched the video? I had NO idea! We have had these bulbs in our house for…at least a year? I’m just ill about it.

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