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Not everyone was born to blog, but some people were.
Pity the poor NBB who was born before there were blogs. You can imagine this person wandering the planet with some unspecified sense of purpose. Scratching his or her head, wondering what exactly it is they were supposed to do with their ...
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Blogger
I continue to work on my new editorial system. Whether it will see the light of day remains to be seen. I'm finding it useful and may at some point publish the tools. In the meantime, I'm learning a lot about the various publishing environments.
I supported WordPress right off the bat.
Then ...
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WordPress
I assumed that because we elected Obama to end the war in Iraq that it went without saying that the war in Afghanistan would be ended as well.
Apparently not so.
The President is now considering an escalation of the war in Afghanistan.
I can't imagine he will not face substantial opposition ...
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I've now seen two movies that had bloggers in leading roles.
1. State of Play . A remake of a brilliant BBC series that was so bad, that portrayed the blogger in such a superficial and humiliating fashion, that I actually walked out in disgust. (A movie has to be very bad for me to walk out ...
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A few notes about the propriety of reporters accepting free followers from Twitter.
1. On Friday, in an interview with Twitter COO Dick Costolo at a TechCrunch conference , Mike Arrington observed that when TechCrunch ran a piece about Twitter Corp they didn't like, they were taken off the ...
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TechCrunch
Jay Rosen sent a link to a post on a BusinessWeek blog : "Does anyone know how to preserve and store our four and a half years of blog posts and comments?"
Not sure what kind of blog it is, but saving the posts to a PDF (as mentioned on the site) isn't much of a solution.
We hope each of us ...
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I have several accounts that I use for testing Twitter apps. One of them, bullmancuso , was shut down last October. A few weeks ago I petitioned to have the account restored.
This evening I got an email from the Twitter support person BFF, who explained:
"Your account was suspended because ...
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I had an interesting but somewhat disturbing exchange with a Google guy on Twitter today. It reveals a bunch of disconnects, that I'm going to try, in this post, to address.
1. Please take these statements at face value.
2. I am just a person, I am not in competition with Google.
3. I am a ...
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RSS
I watched the morning session of TechCrunch's second realtime conference, including the half hour interview with Dick Costolo, the COO of Twitter.
Of course Mike Arrington asked him the "Is RSS Dead?" question, and thankfully Costolo didn't want to go there. It would be ingracious of him, of ...
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RSS
Everyone's asking questions about the decade that's coming to a close, I'd like to ask what's the coolest software you used this decade?
For me, it might be Dropbox . I keep thinking of new uses for it.
For a guy with a huge number of computers (I don't even want to count them), it's not ...
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I sort of understand why people don't like the new retweet, but I like it very much, and probably for many of the reasons they don't like it.
If you follow me on Twitter you know that a lot of my tweets are links to stories on the web. I would probably forward other people's links more if ...
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One of the cool things about riding on a train is that you meet a lot of people.
There are Europeans who are visiting the US and have the train riding habit from home.
There are people who remember the golden age of trains and can tell you how this or that is a shadow of its former self.
And ...
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My chin fell to the floor this morning as I read a BBC article quoting Twitter co-CEO Biz Stone advising Rupert Murdoch to be more open.
This got me to think about where Twitter is and where they're going and how similar it is to where Murdoch's newspapers are.
In a newspaper, reporters get ...
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One of Jay's ideas for rebooting professional news applies equally, imho, to personal news. I wrote it up over at rebootnews.com .
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Tim O'Reilly is going to give a keynote at the Web 2.0 conference about the War of the Web. You should read his piece , many good points, I agree with most of it.
The tech industry sure loves its wars.
And death. This is dead that is dead, everyone is dead, but me.
Isn't that every child's ...
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In the early part of this decade, after the first dotcom crash, a lot of us thought that we'd all have personal servers by now.
We called them fractional horsepower servers because the issues were different, ease of use mattered much more than scalability. And communication between servers ...
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Woke up in the middle of the night in Salt Lake City, went back to sleep, and by dawn we were in the middle of a whiteout with snow on the Wasatch front. Headed east from there, roughly following the path of Interstate 70, through Green River and Grand Junction. We'll get to Denver at about 7PM, ...
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In response to my post about the new editorial tools I am using, Bill Seitz asked why it's so important to have a representation of the pre-rendered content stored in public on the web. My first answer was incomplete, I said I wanted an archive. I don't feel comfortable having the only copy of ...
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I've always wanted to take a train across the United States. Today, I'm going to do a big part of it, from Emeryville CA to Denver. Not sure where I'll go from there, playing it by ear.
I don't know how much of the trip I'll document here on scripting.com, but you can see all the activity on ...
