Thripp.com is a new WordPress MU-powered social network focused on blogging, with the goal of harnessing technology to work with you—to enable your creativity by empowering your voice, while backing you with a community of supporters so you never have to go it alone. I just launched this on 2008 May 24, so we have a long road ahead. Join if you want to build a community that trusts it’s citizens.
Right now, the community is mostly me. I read everything posted and am active at my own Thripp.com blog, so you can count on the site …
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If you’re registering a blog for the first time, the signup page has a new hurdle:

This will stop automated spammers from registering at thripp.com. The verification images are provided by the reCAPTCHA project, and are words from books that optical character recognition has failed on. Much more interesting than ugly CAPTCHAs with words that make no sense. I implemented it with the WP-reCAPTCHA plugin.
There’s no need for CAPTCHAs when commenting because every blog has Akismet for comment …
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I now have a mission statement for this experiment. It’s the biggest, boldest, greatest thing I could come up with. It may be psychotic and delusional, but every revolution starts with a dream.