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Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts

Day: April 14, 2004

  • Making mistakes in public

    Earlier today, Mark Pilgrim took CNET to task for presuming to create YAML (Yet Another Markup Language). That was decidely not the case, but there was cause for confusion. The culprit? An old feed, not RSS, which was mistakenly listed on the CNET Download.com RSS page and presented as if it were RSS, like the…

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  • Almost makes me want to buy a new cellphone

    Matt Haughey encourages everyone with All Hail Bluetooth, a description of his recent phone upgrade. I have the same 12″ PowerBook, and this desktop Mac, but my cellphone is very 1999 (if that). I’m not in a hurry to switch, but I can see (more of) the appeal.

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  • Marginalia

    Jon Udell writes about the lack of margins in electronic documents. His blog post doesn’t add much, which is unusual… he often explores a theme or a tangent more fully there, which I appreciate. Margins offer room for shared experience and interpretation. We’ve started using a Wiki as our shared project list and organic documentation…

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  • Good picture

    Rare enough, but got a really good picture of the boy and I from a few weeks ago.

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  • 10 rules for corporate blogs and Wikis

    I’ve got both a blog and a Wiki going now at work, so maybe these rules will be useful. Skimming them, I see they are rules for externally-focused blogs and Wikis, but some things still apply inside the intranet.

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  • Macros be gone ?

    Think I have it now. Yup… now I just need to get things live.

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  • Monthly archive links, thanks to Tweezerman

    I implemented monthly archive links quite easily yesterday, thanks to this Radio macro for monthly archive links. Thanks, Tweezerman.

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