I think there is a dotted line connecting this post by Chris Anderson about a popover ad that blocked Wired.com for five hours yesterday and this post by Scott Karp about online publishers and ad-serving. I would attempt to connect the dots, but currently, I’m listening to a presentation about online advertising technology and, frankly, there are too many dots swimming around my brain at the moment.

Patrick Beeson says the only thing he’ll miss after deleting his MySpace account “is the time wasted deleting fake porn-star friend requests and spam messages.” (Anyone with a MySpace account will get the joke.)

Observation: I’ve been hearing and saying “MySpace and Facebook” in sentences together for so long, that I’ve grown to think of them as competitors in the same category — the “social network” category. However, the more that I delve into Facebook, the more I realize that it is a very different animal than MySpace. I no longer believe they are two services that do the same thing — they are different things. I guess this is just a tease on my part, as I’m not ready to explain exactly what I mean — but I will, soon.

(via: Martin Stabe.)

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