So, today was the "great blackout". I have to be honest, although I participated in the blackout [1], I've not really been much impacted by the blackout today. I tried to access wikipedia a couple of times, and drew a blank, well... ish. I tried to follow up a link to a profile on identi.ca, and got a black page. I tried to get a link to a podcast I listen to, and got a redirect to another site. So, how do I feel it went? As a guy who lives in the UK, I think it was really interesting. I saw more comments about the loss of Wikipedia than I did about SOPA, I saw that the BBC did a news story on Wikipedia being down, and I had a really hard time explaining why it was an issue to my wife (to be fair she said "you always go into a long rambling explanation, why don't you just summarize it in a sentence for me" - I said "It'll might take down the blog site you spend a lot of time reading", and she said "Oh, OK"). I saw a lot of people posted a link to The Oatmeal's SOPA blackout comic. I'd link to it, but
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