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  • Blogger Meet-up (and I missed it!)

    Is the "traditional media" doing anything like this where you are? The personal media revolution came to the KRON 4 studios Saturday [June 11] when more than 100 members of the Bay Area blogger community accepted [an] invitation for a meet-up. [ Bay Area Blogger Meet-up ] KRON 4 ("The Bay Area's News Station") is… Continue reading

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  • Grafedia – Grafitti meets the WWW

    It's certainly nothing I would have thought of. Words written in blue, underlined, painted on a wall. Use your cell phone or computer to send email or a text message to that blue word "@grafedia.net" and get back an image or sound file by return mail. It's hyperlinking in the physical world. It's weird. It's… Continue reading

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  • Men, Women, and Web Services

    You've probably heard the statement that when it comes to communication, men are from Mars, while women are from Venus? A concept straight from the title of a book by John Gray, this highlights an idea made popular by Deborah Tannen (You Just Don't Understand) in 1990. When men and women try to communicate, they… Continue reading

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  • Comment but nofollow

    First it was graffiti on walls. Then it was junk mail,. In the "information age" it's junk faxes and an increasing torrent of undesirable offers in our emailboxes. In the past year, there's been a major increase in the volume of a new kind of graffiti junk spam — weblog comment spam (ich). Comment spam… Continue reading

  • IT & Tea – Weblogging Presentation

    I attended a presentation on weblogging today. Rich suggested I attend as he couldn't promise a properly complete recap 🙂 Speaker: Terry Huwe – Director of Library and Information Resources- UC Berkeley It seems everywhere you look these days, people are talking and thinking about Blogging. But just how relevant is Blogging? Is it just… Continue reading

  • Weblogging – The Next Generation

    I have begun a weblogging experiment. I created a private weblog for my family, a kind of Family Bulletin Board. Then I invited 10 family members to join as Guest Authors. So far, 5 of the 10 have accepted the invitation and one is considering the idea. All of the guest authors have posted at… Continue reading

  • TypePad registration opens RSN

    TypePad registration will open on Monday, August 4 at 11:59 pm (PDT) as a Preview Release. That's less than 2 hours away as I write this… Features will continue to be added and the system will still be considered to be under development, but the service will be open for any user to sign up.… Continue reading

  • TypePad is in sight

    TypePad is an upcoming hosted service providing powerful tools for creating full-featured weblogs. … TypePad harnesses the power of the popular Movable Type personal publishing system into a turnkey service, suitable for beginners and experts alike. Continue reading

  • Shortening URLs

    Which URL is easier to remember, send via email without breaking, etc? http://quizilla.com/users/laur/quizzes/Which%20famous%20feline%20are%20you%3F/ or http://xrl.us/catquiz If you didn't have much difficulty deciding the second was "better", you'll want to know about the Metamark Shorten™ Service at http://metamark.net/. Some related tools are also available, including a pair of "bookmarklets" (one in a popup window, the other… Continue reading

  • Safari has Tabs!

    The latest Safari beta has tabs! It has AutoFill as well. My first and second most desired enhancements are now part of Safari. My new favorite browser now has everything I wanted!. Tabs have been a big deal since Safari shipped the first Beta. There are Tabs in Mozilla and (most) users like tabs (count… Continue reading