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Ponzi 'splains it all for you

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Latthanapon "Ponzi" Indharasophang got thrown into hard-core blogging and tech-geekery rather suddenly, by virtue of falling in love with Chris Pirillo, self-described shameless self-promoter and long-time tech celebrity.

What's great about that is that Ponzi has no qualms about calling BS on the rest of us geeks when we slip into incomprehensible jargon, or make blogo-cultural assumptions that either don't have reasonable parallels or don't make sense in the real world. On Tuesday, she wondered and explained about "link love" and "link whoring" and other strange link-based behaviours, and the assumptions about them that those of us who've been running weblogs for awhile hardly think about anymore.

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