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• Even Free Registration Has a Cost Yesterday, I did a good amount of thinking about the registration model of the T-minus aggregator project. At this point, I’m confident that a good portion of the service will be free and without registration. This was confirmed when I went to check out the Technorati redesign this morning and neither the site nor my browser
• Moved Servers This means the heavy lifting of moving garrickvanburen.com to a new server, and the firstcrackpodcast to it’s own domain is complete (finally). If anythings not working as expected, please drop me a line. Thanks. Two things I’ve noticed already: The forums haven’t migrated yet, I thought I’d take this opportunity to try and solve the spam problem
• Micro-vicious Circles After 3 years, nearly 1500 updates, exploration from many angles, numerous conversations, and wastebaskets full of crumpled analysis, I’m proud to say, I grok Twitter. Like I’ve never grokked it before1. I also know why Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, et al, are better* than WordPress, Blogger, MovableType, etc. And it’s completely the blog-engines’ fault. They’re some
• Luckmaking in Place “Placemaking takes time and sometimes just plain dumb luck. No planner envisioned it all, first laying out the grid of streets and creating a zoning code for Dinkytown, then deciding precisely that an alley was to be converted to become the location of a breakfast counter and a legendary, delicious business.” - Sam Newberg A nice
• Liberating Iraq for….China? “So, not surprisingly, [China] seeks to resurrect old oil-field deals it had with Saddam in Iraq. Did I not say this would happen? Our blood, their oil. When I was in Beijing in 2004, I told everyone I met with that China should have 50k peacekeepers in Iraq, because in the end, it would mostly be