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Back!
flickr foto available on flickr That’s right, he’s back. Not his back! Stephen Downes is back in the blog saddle. Hold on for a wild ride.
368 Posts from 2006
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Blog Long Tail Much Longer, Wagging
Okay, I know there are a lot of blogs. And it seems we are still at an inflection point, so soon there are going to be A LOT OF BLOGS. The long tail of blog is growing longer by the second. Yee-hah! Ride the tail! It just struck me as I was counting down with […]
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Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Does he ever get weary of it? It’s not a criticism (really! I mean it, sincerely). I admire someone who can take a show on the road like that. I got worn out after one repeat. Wow.
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Free Is Good At The Airport
I’m again at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport for another jaunt out of town. I recalled reading somewhere online a few weeks ago that the airport was offering free wireless, not the pay through your nose service that was there before. Sure enough, flipping open the laptop, there it is: This is a welcome change from […]
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Feed2JS Beta With Enclosures
Rightfully so, people have been requesting the Feed2JS be able to display content referenced in RSS 2.0 or podcast feeds. Until now, these enclusore tags have been ignored because it is not supported in the underlying MagpieRSS library code. It turns out there is a fairly simple patch / adjustment to the Magpie code that […]
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iAudio Spinning
flickr foto iAudio and Shuffleavailable on my flickr My new iAudio U3 is so tiny and light you’d think it might float away.. but it can carry 1 Gb of stuff. Here is relaxes next to my Shuffle My iAudio U3 MP3 player/recorder prompty arrived and I am just starting to play with it. I […]
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Mouse Convert
flickr foto Mouse, No Tailavailable on my flickr Ha, I am eating my own crow. After baseless ridicule of 3 button mice, I am now loving my Kensington mini Bluetooth critter, on both sides of the operating systems in my MacBookPro. Right clicking saves key-click combos for the Mac, and on Windows on the Intel […]
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Windoze Ate My Saturday
I am already 3 hours deep of my weekend time trying to resurrect Windoze XP (Xtra Polluted) from its now threatened partition on my MacBookPro. This began with login errors like “winlogin.exe- unable to locate component– failed to start because ole32.dll was not found” Well that is utterly useful information and gives me a clear […]
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Cocommenting On The Rise Or?
Cocomment is an interesting web technology that does some neat things but perhaps is not so wide it used to reach a next level of progress. It acts as a service of sorts, to tackle the age old (or 3 year old) problem of not knowing what happens to the “conversations” you leave as comments […]
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Warnock’s Dilemma and Variants
By sheer acts of curious link following, I ended up today learning about Warnock’s Dilemma via Classy’s Kitchen: Warnock’s Dilemma is the situation you face when people don’t comment on your postings: The problem with no response is that there are five possible interpretations: 1. The post is correct, well-written information that needs no follow-up […]