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[09:56] <Rinchen> Re: Matt's fridge story - he's offline for the day so he'll probably fix that in the morning
[09:56] <Rinchen> if one of you guys wants to approve that after that line is rewritten, +1.
[09:56] <Rinchen> or if you find anything else that needs to be rewritten, +2 :-)
[10:50] <robitaille> Rinchen:  I'll take a look at that article tonight
[10:50] <Rinchen> Thanks.
[10:51] <mdke> would be nice to get an article on the Dell story too
[10:51] <mdke> shall we mail the marketing team and ask them to contribute? might be a good chance to get them involved
[10:51] <Rinchen> At this point, Canonical employees cannot comment on Dell.
[10:51] <robitaille> hummm...planet.u.c doesn't  seem to update.  On the day where there is probably a bunch of blog entries about Dell-Ubuntu
[10:52] <mdke> robitaille: yeah, it was disabled. However, now that Canonical has announced the news, it should be reactivated again - I've asked the admins
[10:53] <robitaille> what?  it was disabled because of the Dell story????
[10:53] <mdke> yes, unfortunately
[10:54] <mdke> there was a leak, and it was blocked in a rather heavy handed way, at least that's the impression I got.
[10:54] <mdke> anyway, now the news is all live so we could write something
[10:56] <robitaille> I guess the leak was that Canonical employee who blogged about it...I see that his entry is now gone from the site
[10:56] <mdke> yes, 2 other community members linked to his story and were removed too; seems planet hasn't been updating since then
[10:57] <mdke> but the news has been public for quite a few hours now, no sure why it hasn't been restored
[10:57] <robitaille> I find all this a bit disturbing.  it is one thing to control your direct employees...it is something else to remove entries of community members, and block the whole site for hours
[10:59] <mdke> yes, I agree. There was a bit of an overreaction...
[11:00] <robitaille> Interestingly my blog entry survived on planet...must be because it was clearled labelled a rumour
[11:00] <mdke> exactly, yes
[11:05] <robitaille> I have noticed in recent weeks that  I making the decision on more and more posts of mine to not appear on planet...some sort of self-censorship; even for posts somewhat related to Ubuntu.  I'm starting to think that maybe I should simply remove myself from the planet.
[11:05] <robitaille> going to a more complete freedom of expression :)
[11:06] <Rinchen> robitaille, I hope you don't.  I like the fact that you are there.
[11:06] <robitaille> Rinchen: 90% of my blog posts don't make it on Planet already
[11:06] <mdke> post more to planet
[11:07] <mdke> I like your posts and won't read them unless they end up there
[11:07] <Rinchen> I've noticed but didn't think it was that high a percentage.
[11:07] <Rinchen> I've had to self-censor myself so now I only use my blog to post about ubuntu in general.  The problem is, some of the stuff I really want to post on, I'm not in a position to comment on. :-)
[11:07] <robitaille> essentially anything tag "ubuntu" goes to planet, anything else stay on my blog.   Too much non-ubuntu stuff on planet could be seen as spam
[11:08] <mdke> I think people should post everything on their blog to the planet
[11:08] <mdke> non-Ubuntu related stuff is interesting too, because the whole people is to find out more about contributors
[11:08] <mdke> obviously, if people don't want to, that's fine. I'm just saying that I like seeing it
[11:11] <Rinchen> Me personally, I like to see Ubuntu and related but not anything else except life announcements (e.g. "It's a boy!")
[11:12] <mdke> how come?
[11:13] <Rinchen> info overload
[11:14] <Rinchen> If I like someone's posts in general, I'll add their feed
[11:14] <Rinchen> otherwise, I like to hear the buzz on a particular topic, in this case, Ubuntu and related
[11:14] <robitaille> I know that I write 3-4 posts a day on my blog.  if they all to planet, and 20 others members do the same, that's a very busy planet
[11:14] <mdke> robitaille: nothing compared to planet Gnome
[11:15] <Rinchen> planet mayhem you mean? ;-)
[11:15] <robitaille> mdke:  and that's why I don't subscribe to planet Gnome...too busy and not focused enough :)
[11:15] <mdke> ah, I quite like it
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