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Cleaned Reader

Whew, finally got around to cleaning out my Google Reader. Not to say that I actually “read” them all, but sifted through, and Shift-A’d through some feeds with 100+ unread items lurking. Of course, this screenshot may imply that I don’t subscribe to anything. By the time I publish this post, the sidebar will start […]

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Shorpy – a Photo Blog Pioneer

I like Shorpy, “the 100 year-old photo blog”: Shorpy.com is a photo blog about what life a hundred years ago was like: How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. We’re starting with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s by […]

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Best Reason for Delay in Posting to Discussion Forum

Will trying to track down some info on Apache and virtual hosts on a technical discussion forum, I found this explanation from one writer who was trying to explain the delay in responding: Yep, I started describing the steps to enable split access logs, and decided to run out and paint the doors. Yep. Sounds […]

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Is It a Blog? Is it A Wiki? Looks Cannot Tell

A quick shout-out to Andy Rush for sharing his work on theming and connecting together the UMW New Media Center site using a common theme deployed in WordPress and MediaWiki. It’s very elegant design, and as you navigate back and forth, perhaps the distinction of “this is a wiki” and “this is a blog” blur […]

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For the Last Lonely Reader

Here’s a toast to the last reader of this blog, after most others likely have chucked it from their RSS boxes and scooted it off the blog rolls. Heck, and my list of unread feed items stretches down to Ecuador. So hello to the last lonely reader of this dog tired blog…… It’s coming up […]

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DFW Dash

Ponderings likely not worth reading… What is traveling without inane stories of airport mishaps? What is an appropriate way to answer the question when someone invariably asks, “how was your flight?” — do you want a flight to be anything but uneventful? It was not until I was on the plane leaving a gorgeous sunny […]

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How Long is a “Moment?”

This “moment” on twitter has lasted at least a week: The ‘moment’ might be, “How long until out über cool technology is bought by Google/Rupert/Yahoo/Microsoft/….”? Pity the poor start up that cannot be munched for 1.65 billion. And pour me another ’57 Chevy.

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Online Conference Conundrums

I’ve had a few days rest from the 2 day marathon of our NMC Online Conference on Convergence of Web Culture and Video — which had some phenomenal moments but also are leading me to some un-answered ponderings about these kids of events. Participation. First of all, I attended every session, but that’s because I […]