Outer Mongolia. It’s a threat in my mind. Somehow worse than Siberia. A place where you “get sent”. A bit of romance there if only for the seemingly still nomadic lifestyle. Until the rain storm, seemed like a nice, quiet vacation spot. Like northern Wisconsin in autumn. Remote. If only I had a hand-cranked Russian …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Welcome Another Doodledee to the World
“her name is claire and she is totally awesome” – Dave. Totally. Congrats.
Don’t Click Here, Part 2
“That it uses RSS is cool and modern and all; but hey, it’s still advertising. It’s still a media game that works entirely on the supply side. And it’s still ineffecient. However appropriate it may be, most of its messages are still wasted.” – Doc Searls
WiFi and Complementary Kid’s Meals are the Same Thing.
Back a few months ago, the family Smith and family Van Buren dined at a Claim Jumpers Restaurant. I’m still impressed, that by default, they came out with a complementary kid’s plate (cheese sticks, tortilla, deli turkey slice). If you have kids, you understand how brilliant this is. It shows the restaurant actually acknowledges parents …
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Digg Dumb Deep Down
“That means that, if Digg were actually based on the Wisdom of Crowds principle, you’d never see how many people had dugg an article before you choose to digg it yourself. Additionally, you’d only ever vote on a random selection of articles.” – J Wynia I think the transparency allowed by internet technologies make true …
TagMaker Script Modified by TheResistanceArmy
If you’re using my TagMaker script with MarsEdit, shaners 0 matic 8000 posted a patch for better Technorati placement: Reworked tagmaker script.
More FeedSeeder Demos – Organized and Otherwise
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll be at Portable Media Expo a this coming weekend. If you see me, feel free to introduce yourself and ask for a FeedSeeder Demo. I’m looking for comments and suggestions. Also, as soon as I get back from PME, I’ll be doing a more formal presentation as part of the …
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Who Buys Lunch in a Draw?
Today, Aaron Abramson and I enjoyed a very heated lunch conversation on the strengths and weaknesses ad-subsidized wifi networks. No conversions, definitely an agree-to-disagree situation. The work he’s doing with the wifi guys sounded so similar to the work I did years back (see paragraph 6) I had deja vu. Thankfully, he didn’t mention anything …
Ready for Some Stories
Stephanie Quilao explains RSS in 3-panels. Now, I can cross that off my Things To Do list. Thanks Stephanie.
Note to ‘Self-Proclaimed Experts’
“This was when I realized suddenly that all those self-proclaimed “experts” telling me what to do had no qualification whatsoever regarding my life, ideals, or methodologies.” – David Seah