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I agree with Ethan Kaplan.

Reading the BBC you’d think that someone like me never gets any work done.

Of course, if you read this message from my boss, Steve Gillmor, you’ll probably understand why he doesn’t mind me spending time on Facebook.

Louis Gray has an interesting report on blogs that link to themselves.

I was joking around with a friend just the other day about this trend. Saying that I should just link to myself more to be like some of the bloggers I’ve been reading lately.

I’m so happy I’m not in the page view advertising world.

We went to the doctor’s yesterday. Milan’s due date is today but it doesn’t look like birth will happen today.

The doctor scheduled us for inducing birth next Tuesday evening. Hmmm, maybe I’ll be able to show up at TechCrunch 40 anyway! When I last saw Mike Arrington he told me he was going to get Milan’s birth scheduled for after the conference. I didn’t believe him, but now I’m really a believer!

Anyway, everything is good, we’re using the time to relax and get ready. We’ll let you know when it happens. If you watch my Twitter account we’ll post a Twitter post first whenever news changes.

Only in Silicon Valley?

You can learn how to build Facebook Applications at Stanford University.

Personally, based on how many startups, both here and in Seattle, have told me that they are building Facebook apps, I think this is a great idea.

I’ll add more after I interview the professor (planning on doing that in October after our baby is born).

Interesting debate over on ProBlogger.

I’ve made my position very clear in the past: I far prefer full text feeds.

Ahh, TechCrunch gets after linkblogs and warns Google not to turn on more features in Google Reader.

As publisher of the biggest linkblog on the Internet, with about 300,000 items collected over the past year, you might be right to sense that I don’t agree.

But you’d be wrong.

Content producers should be able to keep their content off of such link blogs.

The thing is TechCrunch is way behind the times here. If you don’t want your content used on such link blogs you should look at what Sphinn is doing: providing only partial text feeds.

Also, reputable link bloggers should comply with the wishes of content producers.

So, Mike Arrington, are you asking me to stop link blogging TechCrunch? If so, I’ll unsubscribe from your blog and stop doing it.

I figured that since I’ve been doing it for a year without a single complaint from any of the feeds I’ve been using that the copyright holders have agreed that linkblogging is OK with them.

Is that no longer the case?

You all know my email robertscoble@hotmail.com and phone number 425-205-1921.

Yesterday Rocky and I headed over to Mike Arrington’s house.

If we could schedule this I wouldn’t have brought a baby into the world in the next two weeks. Not that we knew this two-week period was going to be the heaviest news cycle of the year nine months ago (or that we could control when Milan decided he wanted to arrive. ).

Damn, there’s a LOT of news that’s going to be flowing next week. 40 companies at TechCrunch 40 are launching. Then another 60 or so coming at Demo, a week later.

One of those companies just was here. Very cool.

If the other 100 are as cool as the one I just saw, you are in for a real treat the next few weeks. I have NO idea how we’ll all keep up.

Definitely be watching TechMeme every day, though. Arrington told me a little bit about what’s coming and even the big companies are launching stuff. All the PR guns are going to be firing and that means a LOT of news.

Me? We’re shipping something a little different. Maybe we’ll drop by TechCrunch 40 and show it off.