My only request is that people stop posting the same inane crud that everyone else is posting. If it isn't original, I'm not interested in it.

I don't need to be alerted via 30 different blogs that WP 2.8 has been released. I'll get that from the WordPress.org blog itself. However if you want to write a blog post talking ABOUT the new release, then that's sweet as by me. Or even if you add a little snippet of info. about the release which wouldn't have been in the 30 other blog posts which arrive in my feed reader I'd be happy with that too. But a single paragraph outlining the fact that WP 2.8 is released and a summarising the 30 other blog posts is simply annoying, particularly since they all arrive at the same time. All those posts do is to add to the noise IMO.