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		<title>Blessed be the blog</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago the Web was in the grip of robots. Take two of the classic web searches (no, not those two, this is a family blog) - consumer electronics and celebrities. I&#8217;d be searching for a USB powered keyboard warmer and the latest pictures of Brian Blessed, and all I&#8217;d get was a hundred [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A while ago the Web was in the grip of robots. Take two of the classic web searches (no, not those two, this is a family blog) - consumer electronics and celebrities. I&#8217;d be searching for a USB powered keyboard warmer and the latest pictures of Brian Blessed, and all I&#8217;d get was a hundred price comparison websites and some generic celeb-pic site with only a couple of fuzzy pics of Brian and a hundred links trying to sell me junk I didn&#8217;t need, USB powered mouse-mat warmers? Useless!</p>
<p>These searches are bound to still have Google spit a lot of the old rubbish back at me, but nowadays the blogging explosion means that quite a lot of information on the web is now back to being produced by real, living, breathing people. Amidst the auto-generated pap, I&#8217;ll typically be able to read someone slagging off the latest USB powered keyboard warmer (and saying that Apple are about to come out with one that&#8217;ll revolutionise PC interface heating), and a few reviews of Brian Blessed&#8217;s astonishing performance on Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes.</p>
<p>The web is being repopulated by real content, now that it&#8217;s finally possible for totally non-technical types and geeks alike to get involved. As of this week, India can get involved too - now that the Indian government has <a href="http://www.ibnlive.com/news/government-lifts-ban-on-blogsites/16155-11.html" target="_blank">lifted its recent blogging ban</a>, that&#8217;s another billion people to contribute some real content to our web. Now, considering I was lying in the last paragraph and can find hardly anything about Brian Blessed&#8217;s astonishing performance on Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes, I&#8217;m hoping at least a few of the billion can get writing about this important matter. Real content! Let&#8217;s go!</p>
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