About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
If you’re having difficulty adding custom fields to an existing WordPress posts via XMLRPC’s metaWeblog.EditPost command, try including a dummy entry in your code. It worked for me. I’m working on a project where we’re programmatically adding WordPress custom field data to thousands of posts, seemed like a great job for XMLRPC. I had assumed …
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Over the past few years, I’ve worked on a number of projects exploring the the value of capturing & sharing a fleeting moment in ‘real time’. These projects included; Cullect; which proved to me how infrequently ‘real time’ ever passed into ‘relevant’. RE07.US; which was a URL shortener that self-destructed after 5 minutes iTunes-to-Twitter; where …
“The region has just a few large tech operations left (Lawson, Digital River, Seagate), and venture capitalists say most local software startups are tiny and will never grow into market leaders or large companies.” – Dan Haugen. Most businesses, local or otherwise, are tiny and will never grow to market leaders or large companies. Minneapolis’ …
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Somewhere in my travels I thought I saw a project that uses Sinatra and some very RESTful URLs to do blogging via email. Now I can’t find it. If you’ve seen this as well – leave a message in the comments. If I can’t find it in a couple of days, I think I know …
“…it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.” – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four This weekend, I opened up my …
“But in the meantime the Net’s going to look way too much like the last days of TV. Which it will be.” – Doc Searls This morning, I heard a broadcast radio discussion on the future of television . First off – the host made the assumption that cable television is some sort of necessity. …
“What if I had put Myspace links on, or Digg links on my stories in 2005? When you go back through the archive those would seem crazy, almost defacing of the content. Don’t those things belong in toolbars or bookmarklets?” – Dave Winer And that’s just one problem with the proliferation of ‘twitter this’, ‘Facebook …
Moments ago, the tow truck from New Gate School dragged away our 13 year old Dodge Neon. This is the car Jen and I bought days before we were married and was our only car for 9 years. Moving across 3 states. At least 1 cross-country drive. More iPod adapters than I can remember. Cleaning …
“We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds…Our minds, no less than our bodies, require periods of fasting.” – Alaine de Botton
After maintaining years of awkward, inconsistent URL shortening behavior because of some vague argument about SMS capabilities – Twitter has announced links passed through their service may or may not be shortened to t.co. “A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed …
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