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Current Events

Self-Referential Navel Gazing, 2008 edition

January 6, 2009 Current Events

This post is for my own notes – a bunch of stats about traffic on the blog and the social networks to serve as a reference point for next year.
top post of the year – Barack Obama’s Speechwriter is 26 consistently did well because of it’s high search results ranking. Coming up second was a [...]

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Hello 2009!

December 31, 2008 Current Events

Have a wonderful New Year’s and good luck for 2009!

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Naughty or Nice? Chris Pirillo as Santa Claus

December 15, 2008 Current Events

Chris Pirillo is hosting a contest where he’s gifting bundles of toys for Christmas.
Me? I’ve asked for the LEGO Wonderland bundle for my son (and the neighborhood boys that will be sure to benefit).  LEGO Wonderland, Star Wars Smiles, Family Game Night, the choice is yours if you’d like to enter.

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Netbooks and Smartphones Converging

November 12, 2008 Current Events

Cell phones are getting larger to accommodate a larger display and laptops are getting smaller and more portable. As the cellphone gets more expensive and the laptop gets cheaper there will come a time in the not too distant future where they will cross. Which device will it be? The netbook or the smartphone? Who’s [...]

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Election Day

November 4, 2008 Current Events

See latest stories on Yahoo! News

I’m traveling today so I mailed in my absentee ballot weeks ago. Without a real pin, I’ll sport a virtual one.

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Defrag 2008 – Flow Apps, Best Practices

November 4, 2008 Current Events

A recurring theme at this year’s Defrag conference is the concept of a flow app (see Stowe Boyd post from last year) which I loosely define as an aggregator that brings together multiple information streams into a single view. More broadly known as lifestreaming, these applications are still very basic and only being used by [...]

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Thomas Jefferson on the Credit Crisis

October 24, 2008 Current Events

I leave you with this quote to ponder over the weekend.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to
control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive
the [...]

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Was the drop in UAL shares engineered?

September 11, 2008 Current Events

A bit of lunchtime discussion about the whole United Airlines fake bankruptcy mess brought about an interesting theory. The reason the story from 2002 was picked up in the first place was because the headline was in the “Most Viewed” stories tab which is calculated automatically, most likely by looking at pageviews.

So the obvious question [...]

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Taking your finger off the button

September 9, 2008 Current Events

Shares of United Airlines dropped 75% yesterday because of a poorly designed template. The Google News blog has all the gory details including screenshots of the Florida Sun-Sentinal site which included links to a old story, UAL files for Bankrupcy, in its automated “Most Viewed” sidebar widget.
The Google News robot crawled that link and because [...]

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NBC holding Olympic videos hostage

August 14, 2008 Current Events

NBC is milking their investment in broadcasting rights for the Beijing Olympics by making anyone that wants to view their videos jump through a few hoops.
Hoop Number One: Install Silverlight 2.0.

This limits installation to only Windows machines or Intel-based Macs. Oh, and you have to restart your browser so you if you don’t save the [...]

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