Category: Ideas
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links for 2006-02-03
lenn®: 2005: The Longest Year, Pt. 1 This guy is Scoble’s old boss who left Microsoft to work for Skype. I feel like every time I’ve read anything he’s written, it’s this personal soul-bearing stuff, and it’s awesome. This guy needs to quit his job and write books. (tags: writing)
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links for 2006-02-02
Editor: Myself | Hossein Derakhshan’s weblog (English) If you’re not already reading Hoder, the most prominent Iranian blogger, now’s a good time to start. Hoder is on an expedition…to Israel. Check it out. (tags: hoder iran israel blogs read_this) Harvard University IOP: Events and Programs: Forum Archive Lots and lots of great political video, easy…
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links for 2006-02-01
Internet News Article | Reuters.com World Newspaper Association wants to get their stories out of Google News. “No, no, not free advertising and links to our content! Anything but that! One of the millions of influential advertising targets who gets their news this way might actually rea (tags: newspapers google+news)
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links for 2006-01-27
APStylebook.com $20/year for online access to the AP Stylebook. Worth it? Maybe. Maybe thinking about paying $20 a year will make me remember to carry the dead trees version around with me anyway. (tags: ap ap+style)
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Children of a Lesser Evil…or…Googling Democracy
Thanks to Google, I have to rewrite my International Communications term paper from last semester. Seriously, Sergey, Larry, do you have any idea how hard I work at getting this stuff straight? First you stand out as being downright *good* by specifically NOT planting any servers in China, signing any pledges, or editing any search…
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The oldest of my blogs*, imported
I’ve just used the “Import” function in WordPress 2.0 to add to this blog the first few posts I wrote over on a Blogger blog back in February of last year. Apparently, my first post (not counting a cryptic one-line introduction from December of 2003 that sat idle for 13 months or so) was about…
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Washington Post, comments off
What happens when a newspaper’s blog becomes a battleground for flame wars? The Washington Post found out this week, and they didn’t like it one bit. Executive Editor Jim Brady explained why comments had been turned off on the WaPo’s Editor blog: “At its inception, the purpose of this blog was to open a dialogue…