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"A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time."
--Herbie Brennan, author of Martian Genesis and The Atlantis Enigma
"Tonnies drops all predetermined opinions about Mars, and asks us to do the same."
--Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta
"I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in the search for extra-terrestrial artifacts, and the political intrigues that invariably accompany it."
--David Jinks, author of The Monkey and the Tetrahredron
"Mac Tonnies goes where NASA fears to tread and he goes first class."
--Peter Gersten, former Director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
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13 comments:
Spam blog, hm? Well, you did blog a story about artificial, vat-grown meat, the other day...
Ha ha! I didn't even notice you'd blogged about the vat grown meat again, right below this post.
Your pro vat-grown meat stance is definitely the reason.
I had that happen to one of my blogs as well. As far as I can tell, it was because I was posting a lot of links. The good thing is that once you have a human review your blog, it won't be flagged again.
What's with the template change?
It does not look as good as the prior one. Why change it?
I've been fooling around with various template options and I actually like this one. (I miss the masthead, though.) I think I'll keep it more or less intact to see of it grows on me; "different" can be a little jarring, even if it's just a blog template.
Personally, I think the new format makes for easy reading, but I suppose that's a call best left to you, the readers.
Thanks for the feedback!
Had this happen to me on a couple of my blogs.
Usually happened when I posted 5 or so new posts in a short period of time.
I think it's because your entries are delicious fried and served with eggs over-easy.
Bsti--
Oh, no doubt!
I miss the thick-sliced Canadian bacon, myself...
You didn't know about BLOGGER's REP-DETECT division, did you. Very few *humans* are working there, of course. It takes one to know one. That's funny they pegged you as an a.i.
What did it, I think, is that Posthuman Blues is statistically heavy on quoted content from other sources. You would think that might be offset by your statistically improbable phrases which are original. However, the spambots can easily spoof original content by randomly harvesting words and arranging them in grammatically accurate templates, so the REP-DETECT bots wouldn't have the intelligence to know the difference.
I'd ask you to make your quotes shorter and your comments longer, using more paraphrasing, too, but don't you write for a LIVING?
Still, you have to wonder if you really *are* a spambot, programmed to believe it is doing something very unspamlike and worthwhile… don't you?
Keep the faith.
That's funny they pegged you as an a.i.
Just as long as they don't send any blade runners after me!
I'd ask you to make your quotes shorter and your comments longer, using more paraphrasing, too, but don't you write for a LIVING?
While I do make money writing, thus making me a "professional writer," I'm still not doing it for a living. However, that's my ambition.
The content here at PB varies. Sometimes I'm so enamored of a post that I feel almost obligated to link to it. Other times I get on essay-writing binges. Over the years I've found that both approaches tend to compliment one another. If nothing else, it keeps the blog from becoming suffocatingly self-indulgent.
i mean
since you are a professional writer
your readers will happily take what they can get.
a daily review of the WWW filtered through Mac's brain is fine,
--just like a newspaper with AP news stories--
only Mac is the editor. We like that!
it's a little more like stumble-upon than the average "self-indulgent" blog.
on the other hand,
if you have "content" (sorry to use that word)
such as self-indulgent rants, essays, and original works of art or fiction
(isn't that what blogs are for?)
which don't fit into any current potentially profitable writing project,
we'd be grateful for those as well!
:-)
I'm an organic Web-filter! :-)
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