Ya ya .. I know I’m running a little late but that can happen when you get a good round of slash and burn going in a game and speaking of slashing and burning have you caught the newest flash from AT&T. They’re getting into bed with MPAA and RIAA because they feel that now they are delivering pay television services that their mutual interests are more aligned. So they plan on instituting full scale content filtering to track down all those slime buckets stealing content so that the RIAA and MPAA fake cops can come bust down the door. Way to go to build good customer relations AT&T – way to go. [via Michael Geist]

Introspection is nothing new and while even bloggers go through it we have the luxury of putting it all out there for you to read. In that vein Louis Gray has an excellent post on why he does this blogging thing day in and day out. He covers all the bases from why he doesn’t - to the atypical monetization question – and to what drives his enthusiasm to blog. It’s well worth the time spent reading because I think it is probably the same types of reasons the rest of us have. [via louisgray.com]

As a Vista Ultimate sucker … err …. owner this question about where the hell are the supposed Extras that were the enticement to fork over all those extra dollars sparked a chord. It seems to have sparked quite a conversation in the comments of one blog. One can only hope that maybe the noise will get loud enough that they’ll actually hear us over the piles of cash in the Redmond Monolith. Not likely – but one can always hope. [via Ed Bott]

You can always trust Scott Karp to have an interesting point of view when it comes to blogging and generally sparking an interesting debate in the process. Yesterday was no different with his post about Sponsored Posts being a Legitimate Ad Unit. I am sure that the post will get the panties of the blogging purity patrol all in a bunch but Scott does give some good valid points as to why such an idea could work and still not piss off your readers. [via Publishing 2.0]