About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I’m all for a regional-specific energy solution. Petroleum makes sense in places – like Texas – where petroleum exists. Less so in Nebraska where it’s easier to grow crops than dig for oil. Despite being more renewable than petroleum, ethanol has it’s own problems. It’s a little cheaper per gallon than gasoline (bigger subsidies?), but …
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Today’s Star Tribune has an article on the dangerous and frequently illegal act of urban exploring (also look for Melody Gilbert‘s documentary on the subject Into the Darkness). Outside of trespassing and putting yourself in harm’s way, authorities don’t like it because regular people are gaining knowledge of their city’s infrastructure. On a related note, …
If you’ve been tracking the ‘Most Popular Episodes by Downloads/Day’ way down on the far left column of the website, you’ve probably noticed it hasn’t been updated in a while. I know I have. The great guys at TextDrive moved servers and as such needed to revise their licensing on the Urchin – the server …
Back in the 90s Chuck Hermes and Michael Koppelman (from the lolife podcast) built the Bitstream Underground BBS. This is Chuck’s presentation on the history of Bitstream Underground from MIMA’s Online Communities Salon held on September 14, 2005. Listen to Online Communities v1.o with Chuck Hermes [16 min]
For 3 1/2 years, Jeff Coffey built an airplane in his garage. Over 28 minutes, he takes you from $900 of aluminum sheets to the first, anxiety-ridden flight. Photos of the construction Listen to Building an Airplane at Home with Jeff Coffey [28 min]
I do agree with Bush the one of the few organizations capable of handling a logistical nightmare of a natural disaster the size of Katrina is the Army. The other one is Wal-Mart. Next time don’t turn them away. Three notes to President Bush; Good job on not giggling during your speech. I’m sure it …
I had a post on my personal blog about wanting my favorite movies and TV shows available as digital downloads, rather than DVDs. Looks like I’m not the only one considering my laptop the all-in-one media and communications center. PSFK points to an article on British youth not owning televisions. I picked up a Tivoli …
Blogging, aside from being one of the easiest ways to publish online, is also one of the easiest ways to increase search engine rankings. Search engine spiders like Google’s GoogleBot expect websites to change and be updated frequently. Blogs are (or should be), so the spiders come by more frequently. Once the spiders are at …
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When I was developing WP-iPodCatter, it seemed straight-forward enough to tie WordPress’ enclosure detection with the Comments RSS feed to create a comment podcast, or comment-cast. I didn’t have a personal need for this feature (so it’s not as fully developed as the others) but I thought it’d be neat and it was easy to …
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After the MIMA Online Communities Salon tonight I overheard; “Ad agencies are paid to make the uninteresting interesting.” Reminded me of something Hugh said; “For marketing hand-made cheese that was matured in sixteenth century stone cellars, blogging is a no-brainer. For marketing Velveeta, it’s trickier. Maybe impossible.” The sleight of hand ad agencies perform is …
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