So many blogs are crap that the two substantives—blog and crap—will soon be synonymous. But every once in a while you find a post so honest-to-goodness and beautiful that it single-handedly exonerates the whole damn category.

For many companies, Orthodox Easter is a great opportunity for sending tons of crappy e-mails that are written worse than most unsolicited mass mailings commonly known as “spam.” The Easter greetings filter cries to be invented.

Selling social gratification by the letter: The Big Word Project. And yes, I bought one.

A glorious world of user-generated content and its wonderful inhabitants: The Cut-and-Paste Personality.

Yesterday the post on Woody Allen’s titles got linked long and wide, from Kottke to Daring Fireball, Design Observer to Quipsologies and Subtraction, Metafilter to Waxy, and The Morning News to La Repubblica. Over 10k unique readers in a day. Thank you, folks.

P.S. Boing Boing and Typophile, too.

“The most interesting thing about Facebook right now is who will replace it.” RIP Facebook?, The social graft. Via Longboard.

YouTube has full-screen viewing capability — why oh why Flickr has no such thing? By the way, did Flickr add any useful feature lately? Not one?

Excerpt from a Dotster.com newsletter: “In less than two years more people will access the web from a mobile phone than from a computer.” You got to love the industry experts.

… And that’s the ultimate, shocking truth about Wikipedia.

YouTube and Technorati promptly pumpkinized their logos for Halloween today, while Google, the epitome of 1-day logo makeovers, pulled a no-pumpkin trick.

So this is how it feels to be observed. By Design Observer, that is. Welcome and thank you.

I wanted to like you, Twitter. Hell, I even wanted to love you! I really did. But this can never be. I’m sorry.

Account deleted.

I’m guilty on 3 out of 25 accounts: #6 (posting more than once a day) but only in the sidebar, #17 (unfeedable comments) but I’ll do something about that, #20 (serif fonts) but I consider it a virtue. What’s your charge?

Should Flickr present its users with a dark gray layout, 80% of them would switch in a blink of an eye.

FeedBurner seems to be having a rough day. The counter doesn’t load and their site is a mess. Adding more flare, you say?

Update: it works now, thank you.

Sorry for the erratic feed operation—FeedBurner seems to be a capricious and cruel mistress. Besides, all those little SmartThis and FlareThat seem to be cutting each-other’s throats.

Update: Done. Works again. Sorry for the mess.

TreeWorks launched Ze List, a top of Romanian blogs ranked by popularity. [via Andressa]

Good Lord, Airbag (the one that—along with DF and Subtraction—inspired me to design this blog) linked me in the Longboard section! What’s the verb here?—being airbagged?

For “the most important facts, articles and resources related to copyright issues, law and blogging” regarding copyright on the web, read Copyright Explained: I May Copy It, Right? Wrong.

DreamHost hosted sites (including mine) experienced numerous outages these days thanks to a mighty DoS attack against D.H. DNS servers brought by the Easter bunny. The site may also be extremely slow at times, especially when posting comments — my apologies.

Voting is open now at RoBlogFest 2007 until March 1st. Go support your favorite blogs in the poll, but make sure you read the rules first. [in Romanian]

RoBlogFest 2007 lists of nominations for your perusal. A collection of nominees’ feeds in OPML format is available for your RSS aggregators (quit your job and get ready to take in about 15000 unread posts including duplicates).

Feeder, the inexorable underground news source turns two. Happy b-day! [in Romanian]

My RoBlogFest 2006 wrap-up conclusions in case anyone wants to revisit. Best Fotoblog category already added, what about a Best Humor category?

The Romanian weblog awards RoBlogFest is at its second edition. Dragos — the father of this particularly difficult kid — asks for your help, so please go check the tentative schedule plus the competition categories and leave your suggestions in the comments.

Did you know Pentagram has a blog? “Pentablog compiles news about Pentagram, its partners, activities and recent projects.” Read New at Pentagram.

Fifty NFB animated shorts, including several animation classics at Focus on Animation. Great.

Podcasts.ro gets reborn as Podio in a new format and bigger ambitions — with a first podcast featuring Orlando Nicoara chatting about the wild ride of Romanian Internet’s early days.

Dragos, Radu and Cristi, best luck with Podio!