Monthly Archives: August 2007

Facebook appicons

Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2007 by Rex Hammock

I like those little favicons (appicons?) they’ve added to Facebook to provide a better interface for accessing features (however, on Facebook, they call features “applications” so that independent application developers will create them for free). Recently, I’ve been removing apps … Continue reading →

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Newspapers and blogging – They’re learning

Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2007 by Rex Hammock

Observation: The NYTimes.com has started to include posts from their staff blogs on their “Home Page” RSS feed (unfortunately, they are not full-post feeds, but summaries). So, I was able to learn from the NYT’s U.S. Open blog that the … Continue reading →

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Why I’m glad Samir Husni is blogging

Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2007 by Rex Hammock

While I look at hundreds of magazines a week, it’s rarely at the newsstand. My magazine-wonk-friend, Samir Hunsi — Mr. Magazine — does. He checks out magazines in grocery stores, Wal-mart and — I feel certain — one of the … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-08-30

Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 by Rex Hammock

MapForUS.org This is so funny, it almost makes it bearable to watch the heavily YouTubed trainwreck of an answer Miss Teen SC gave. (tags: humor)

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Katrina blogging

Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 by Rex Hammock

I started blogging about Katrina two years ago, yesterday. A year ago, I looked back at a year of Katrina posts. This post was going to be longer, but I trashed it. It drifted into too much cynicism. I’ll just … Continue reading →

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