»Beamed blogs to 'connect with extraterrestrials'«

Alien life forms will have something new to read with the commencement of a service that will beam bloggers' online rantings into outer space.

"We are giving bloggers the opportunity to send a piece of their lives into space to potentially connect with extraterrestrials," Ted Murphy, president and CEO of the Florida-based firm MindComet, said.

The free service, BloginSpace.com, will beam web feeds of blogs - web logs or personal Internet diaries - into deep space via a powerful satellite broadcast.

"I've always believed that other intelligent life forms are out there and now, for the first time, they will be able to peer into the life of average Homo sapiens," Mr Murphy said.

Human beings have been sending television and radio signals into space for decades.

Many of those broadcasts have included images of war and anger.

MindComet wants to offer any alien beings a new way of looking at Earth.

"This program gives us the opportunity to show our race in a different light," Mr Murphy said.

"We strongly urge our users to refrain from language or content designed to provoke our alien neighbours."