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What’s the Pattern? (Kenneth?)
A little experiment- not looking to see who can name the pattern (that is easy).
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Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
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Make Art Not/From Spam
4 Days of Spam by cogdogblog posted 2 Jan ’09, 9.14pm MST PST on flickr Made by www.wordle.net from 4 days worth of spam caught in my GMail filters. This might be more pleasing than the cruft that I scraped from my spam nets.
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Goals, Resolutions… Excuse Me While I Yawn
Oh, it’s that time of the year. Left and right people are blogging, tweeting, facebooking, friendfeeding, their lofty goals for 2009 and all their resolutions to Get in Shape, Lose Weight, Get Organized, Do Something Charitable, Clean My Inbox etc.. Will sees value on blogging less. Beth offers great detail to address 3 broad goals. […]
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Calculator Surprise
Change in Orientation- Change in Function by cogdogblog posted 2 Jan ’09, 9.51am MST PST on flickr By sheer accident, I found when using the Calcuator app on my iPhone, it becomes a scientific calculator (more functions, more precision) when you rotate the phone. This is elegantly beautiful. Some days I feel arithmetic and other […]
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Questions and Answers for Anything
cc licensed flickr photo by Marcus Ramberg I’ve been seeing a number of my search results this year landing on sites like WikiAnswers and Yahoo Answers — these are useful setups using a wiki based model where anyone can post a question, and then any site visitor can answer. It’s a great approach. I mean, […]
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We Have the Tools, the Technology, to Make the Worlds First Bionic WikiPedia
Among others, Lee Blackall is asking if WikiPedia should cost six million dollars in light of the budget details released by Jimmy Wales. After, all six million clams is a lot of moolah, more than most wikipedia authors/users likely have sitting in their piggy banks. I could not help a flashback to what that amount […]
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Last Day Last Photo (366 later)
Today’s photo was just another day, just another photo, a string of 366 of them since Mike the Lllama on Jan 1 , 2008 when D’Arcy Norman prompted me to follow along with the post a photo a day game (see more back story in One Day One Photo where this all started). At last […]
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Shining a Light: Icelandair Pockets My Money
Did you know that airlines can take your money for tickets, and then keep it when their own delays cause you to miss connections? There is a word for that. Did you know they can ignore requests for customer service? Not reply to messages they acknowledge they will? Did you know that the Bush administration […]
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Customize Your TwitterTools Prefix Text
Do you use the TwitterTools plugin on your own WordPress site to send your blog posts to your tweet stream? Wanna feel like a real WordPress hack jockey? Here is a little code editing you can do without needing to know diddly squat about PHP. Here’s the thing, when TwitterTools published your new sexy blog […]
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Tis the Season of Predictions
cc licensed flickr photo by SiRi About the most reliable prediction one can make this end time of year is the flood of people posting their own predictions for 2009, lots of them in the technology space (e.g. ReadWriteWeb, EDITing in the Dark, and Stephen Downes takes out the 10 year scope in an amazing […]