Category Archives: General

PodcastMN.com pulls 70+ podcasts in to a single page using a single script. Is it a network? I hope not. But it does many of the same functions as a media network (ABC, BBC, NBC, etc); aggregate and present a collection of voices with some common collection of attributes. While other functions – distribution, production, …

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Telephones Car Alarms Home Alarms Email and Calendar Applications Websites

“The National Association of Realtors report on existing home sales showed that the median home price in August was $225,000, down 1.7 percent from a year earlier.” “It was the first year-over-year decline in median prices since April 1995, when that measure slipped only 0.1 percent. And it was the biggest year-over-year drop since the …

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“her name is claire and she is totally awesome” – Dave. Totally. Congrats.

“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 …

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If you’re using my TagMaker script with MarsEdit, shaners 0 matic 8000 posted a patch for better Technorati placement: Reworked tagmaker script.

Stephanie Quilao explains RSS in 3-panels. Now, I can cross that off my Things To Do list. Thanks Stephanie.

An open apology to our 13-year old babysitter this evening, We’re a Mac OS X household with Safari as our primary browser. As you noticed, AIMExpress is not supported within Safari. I’m sorry. Though it may not be obvious, Firefox is also available on all the computers in the house. We’ll have it loaded up …

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“Odeo will work fine for new subscribers, but as soon as you’ve been subscribed for a few months, it’s impossible to use.” – Michael Mahemoff Michael’s got an excellent point there. If you’ve following my writing, you know I have a similar problem with the 300+ subscriptions in my NetNewsWire (up from 250, up from …

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2 From the ‘So What?’ Department: LonelyGirl15 isn’t a ‘real’ person, just an entertaining video project James Frey’s A Million Little Pieces not a ‘real’ memoir, get your money back To me, both of these are non-stories and stories with illiterate audiences. There’s no reason for readers or viewers to feel cheated if they were …

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