Monthly Archives: September 2006

A note of advice to parents of teenagers

A note of advice to parents of teenagers: Like me, Marianne Richmond has an in-house focus group of long-time Facebookers. And they think letting parents onto Facebook is as weird as I do. She writes, “According to my kids, MySpace … Continue reading

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Dangers of playing chess

Dangers of playing chess: Yesterday, I read an account of a woman who died after a chess-tournament related accident in Nashville last year. Today, the NYTimes.com has an article with the headline, “Bathroom Dispute Halts Chess Championship.” Trend story?

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Conflicting social contexts

Conflicting social contexts: Thanks to Susan Mernit’s link to this post by Danah Boyd, I am now able to articulate why I think (and this is an opinion shared by teenaged members of my family) it is a mistake for … Continue reading

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A boom in magazine coverage of online video

A boom in magazine coverage of online video: Is this a “niche boom” leading indicator…or a lagging one? Wired does Eric Bauman of eBaum’s World and Forbes does a lot of stories about YouTube. Quote from the Wired story about … Continue reading

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Blogging means you can’t pretend bad stuff isn’t happening

Blogging means you can’t pretend bad stuff isn’t happening: My “best practices” role-model whenever asked at conferences, “What magazine uses blogs most effectively?” is BusinessWeek. I’ve blogged here many examples of how the magazine has integrated the tools of blogging … Continue reading

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No, I don’t have a Facebook account

No, I don’t have a Facebook account: Just because they’ll allow anyone to sign up and you can go here and “friend me” doesn’t mean I have broken any promises to teenagers to whom I may be related. It is … Continue reading

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Memories

Memories: In a couple of weeks, Hammock Publishing will begin celebrating its 15th anniversary. However, Bill Hudgins has already started to get nostalgic about the good old days.

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Technical announcement

Technical announcement: During my vacation, rexblog director of hackery Patrick Ragsdale did some major behind-the-scenes overhauling that I’ll be rolling out over the coming days. Note to those who know what the following means: If you’re reading this via an … Continue reading

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Back in Nashville

Back in Nashville: A swell vacation was had by all. As noted in the previous post, I spent the past week-and-a-half in Scotland. (Photos: St. Andrews, Highlands and Skye, and Edinburgh.) However, I’m back now and enjoying the temporary advantages … Continue reading

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A world without wi-fi?

A world without wi-fi? For years, I kept an Earthlink dail-up account in order to connect to the Internet from hotel rooms. Then, post wi-fi and ethernet connections in hotels, about two years passed and I realized I’d never used … Continue reading

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Not just a base hit, a homerun

Not just a base hit, a homerun: (Pardon me while I interrupt my blogging interruption.) As I blogged earlier, Google Base has an easier way for small companies to upload their inventory list so their merchandise can show up on … Continue reading

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Quote of the day

Quote of the day: (From the Official Google Base Blog) “As part of our ongoing effort to make Google Base easier to use, we launched a redesign of the Base homepage today. This doesn’t change any functionality, but will make … Continue reading

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Magazine notes

Magazine notes: I’m stlll offline for a few days, however, here are a couple of magazine items. (Jeff Jarvis, commenting on David Carr’s NYTimes piece on the woes of Time Inc.: “I ran into a few smart magazine executives I … Continue reading

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Buy Laura’s uncle’s book

Buy Laura’s uncle’s book: Laura Creekmore is touting her uncle’s book and graphing out her one-degrees of separation from a couple of U.S. presidents. Wait a minute, I’m one of the one-degrees. That’s a rather weak connection. However, if weak … Continue reading

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Do what I say, not what I do

Do what I say, not what I do: “How Odeo screwed up” as told by the, uh, well, guy holding the screw driver. rexblog flashbacks: Podcasting needs no eBay (February 25, 2005) and here. (via: Dave Winer) Technorati Tags: podcasting

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