Category: Technology
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Delicious Behavior
I’ve stopped using Delicious as a publicity tool. I was tagging my own posts profusely when I had written something I wanted to advertise a little, but when I decided that My Delicious would be put to better use to actually tag pages I wanted to read, reference, and share, I went ahead and deleted…
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FoxSpace: Media Consolidation or Rupert Buys A Clue?
NewsCorp Buys MySpace. NewsCorp = Rupert Murdoch Media Triglomerate, parent company of Fox News, Star Wars, and the New York Post, among others. MySpace = Social Networking (or Data Mining, depending on who you ask) site, with bloggish functions, a little bit of free music flowing, and a bunch of old friends who seem to…
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Trackback Spam Dead, Deceased, Null, Is No More.
Whoa, I guess I found something that works. Bad Behavior killed all that ridiculous trackback spam I was getting whining about. Every last bit of it. Thanks, Mike!
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Cass “The Daily Me” Sunstein Standing In For Lessig This Week
Sunstein is sitting in at Larry Lessig's blog this week, and the conversation has begun. I'm excited to see someone so entrenched as a counterpoint in recent New Media theory taste-testing the Aggregation-flavored Kool-Aid. Follow the thread, see where it goes.
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How To Succeed In Blogness Without Really Trying
Darren Rowse made between $10,000 and $20,000 via Google Adsense advertising on his blogs in the month of May. So, yeah, some people make money directly from advertising on their blogs. How droll. Dave Winer boils down the alternative point of view: “The opportunities to make money from podcasting are misunderstood, much in the way…
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Editing Wikipedia A Great Exercise For Students
Andy Carvin proposes Turning Wikipedia into an Asset for Schools. The simple idea: assign students a Wikipedia page to edit. They do their research and either verify the accuracy of the current page or make revisions, posting their concerns and citing their sources on the discussion page for the entry. Students get experience researching and…
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New Frontier Thesis
In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner presented a paper called “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” at a meeting of the American Historical Association coinciding with the World’s Fair in Chicago. The fair was commemorating the Columbian spirit of exploration. (It was 1893, and no one was really into commemorating the spirit of conquest…
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Newsgator Blogroll
As promised, NewsGator blogroll now on the sidebar. No more Bloglines, no more Plumbers.
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Trackback Spam Solutions?
Plugins are killing my trackback spam…for everyone but me. I mean, it’s all invisible, not cluttering up my email with moderation or anything, but my Stats plugin is absolutely useless because the referrer log is overrun with poker sites. I don’t want to play poker online, guys. Sorry. [tags]wordpress, trackback, spam[/tags]
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Things You Wouldn’t Do In Publix*
*When I was a wee little sprout in Unincorporated Northeast Dade County (I swear – that was where some of our mail was addressed to), it got confusing sometimes what was “Public” and what was the local grocery store “Publix“. There were lots of things, I learned, that one wasn’t supposed to do or say…