Lots of Blog Updates coming today

Part II of the Blog Catch-up-a-thon is happening today. There will be multiple posts as we try to round up the action of the last few days in a reader-friendly format. I suspect this will take most of the day and night, so put on your reading glasses in advance ;-)

Meanwhile, we have a text-trailer:

Coming at Some Point in October 2012
+ Quirky Contests
+ the return of a full-text RSS feed for the main blog (see today's earlier post)
+ removal of ad-network banner ads from the main blog (ad-network banner ads are typically the most annoying/offensive). Please note we are not going to remove all ads, only the ad-network ads (Google Adsense, etc).
+ removal of more third-party scripts (Twitter widget, Google+, Share This, etc) and replacement with basic HTML
+ more on each of the above as they go live