We were having a philosophical discussion about posting content to social networking sites - the diggs, reddits, propellers, etc. But also to the newsvines, canadakas, and all the others.

One of the guys was trying to justify posting stories from his dog blog into foreign sites which are over-run with (generously speaking) English general purpose stories. For example, he found NuMarketing and was excited - the dutch love dogs, he wants visitors to his blog. Perfect.

Except he was getting called him all sorts of names for being a spammer. But, of course, it’s not really spam, it’s just off topic. Well, actually, it’s not off topic from what’s being left on the pligg site, it’s just off topic from the quote on the side. If the quote on the side about the site being Dutch Marketing is accurate.

So, we got into quite a discussion about evil, mini-evil (lots of Austin Powers fans at work), and the tragedy of the commons (yes, we have libertarian economist on staff - don’t you?).

I tend to come down on the side of more generously putting my stories around when it looks like that is accepted behavior. But I think if a webmaster tells you to beat it, then you beat it.

But the fun part was trying to come up with a story you could post *everywhere*. This is the best we could do:

My dog and cat, both vegans, are legally certified to be companion animals for the blind, the aged, and people suffering from depression and disease and they travel internationally for both that and to compete in animal-lmpics. Their former owner, a GLBTU adoptee, died in a tragic car, plane, rail, and cycle crash due to global warming and while backpacking around the globe. We found out because they twittered and blogged and kept facebook and myspace up to date with their GPS, smartphone, laptop, and wimax service, usually while listening to an ipod with itunes while surfing ron paul, hilary, fred, rudy, etc.

We think you could post that to any social networking site. And be on topic.