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BoingBoing, as well as others, have been all over the intro this week of a hosted blogging service through Micro$oft, MSN Spaces<\/a>, which looks to be going toe-to-toe with Blogger and TypePad and other similar hosted blogs.<\/p>\n

General tone of the coverage has been “This isn’t ready for prime time — yet — but MS Paranoia aside, this could be another case of MS taking over the majority of a market niche, especially if they tie it back into their ever-burgeoning OS domination.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The most amusing bits that have come out, though, have been examinations of how M$ is censoring what goes into MSN Spaces<\/a> — what words they let in, and which they don’t. Hilarity ensues.<\/p>\n

M$, of course, is perfectly within their rights to restrict content in their blog system. Whether most folks will accept that as a restriction on their public journals is another matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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