Year: 2004
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WordPress – the new MovableType?
I’m using WordPress for my work blog. With my frustrations over Radio several weeks ago (subsided, but I don’t know why), I continue to consider moving clock to WordPress. I don’t look forward to the conversion, or the data migration, but some command line work and data manipulation would be good exercises for me. Lauren…
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[email protected]
About a week ago, thanks to Ian Holsman, I set up a Gmail account. While the last thing I need is another e-mail account, I was as curious as everyone else. To test the account, I’m publishing, in text, the email address: [email protected] Not that it would be so hard to figure out my work…
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Who are you writing for?
Jon Gruber explains how to write for Google. More than just search-engine optimization (SEO) blather, Gruber points out how a very tightly focused page can be the answer to a very focused question… and Google aggregates questions.
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A speech I’d like to hear
Steve Yelvington writes a quick report on Washington Post VP Chris Schroeder’s speech at the E & P Interactive, where Schroeder worried about “the perfect storm of the Internet,” as it affects media companies. The storm is made up of aggregator competitors, and the disaggregation of services to best-of-breed offerings. For an example of the…
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Managing a Netflix queue, with two people
I’m a Netflix customer. Since October 2000, I’ve enjoyed the no-hassle back-and-forth of DVDs waiting for me to find time to watch them. The alternative — finding time AND interest AND going to a store to rent a movie — seems almost as antiquated as the pre-ATM world. (There’s a world I wouldn’t want to…
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Movie: The Lavender Hill Mob
Never got out to see The Ladykillers, despite Tom Hanks, but the Wall Street Journal’s review of that movie endorsed the original, The Lavender Hill Mob. So, Netflix away. Eighty minutes of black-and-white British fun. Not a great movie, but I haven’t seen much of Alec Guinness long before his Obi-Wan role, so that was…
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Links4Me
Because We Are Geeks [via Simon] Disrupting the News Industry – webcast of UC Berkeley Journalism panel I missed, but I’m listening now Switching from Movable Type – WordPress is listed as a competitor, and Eric Meyer has switched Rich Internet Applications – some classifications to argue about GEL conference writeups – in Fast Company……
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Yankees win
I don’t make it to many baseball games these days, but got to watch the Yankees beat the A’s 4-3 at the Coliseum tonight. A-Rod’s homer on the first pitch of the ninth to tie the game at 3 was the clincher. Being at the ballpark is fun, but TV really spoils the attention span.…
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HeyDoYouKnow?
The word HeyDoYouKnow prefaces most everything that comes out of my son’s mouth right now. Most of the time, I do… so far. He occasionally comes out with something I don’t. It’s a bit too early for me to give up my role as the Wizard (“pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!),…
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Lost weekend
Fever set in Friday night and hasn’t fully let go. Oof.