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Radar, cool hyper-local service from outside.in

September 10, 2008

Image via CrunchBase
outside.in, the local news site co-founded by geographer-historian Steven Johnson, launched a service called Radar which claims to feed you news from within 1,000 feet of your stated location. Similar to the other hyper-local services like EveryBlock and Topix, their service parses blogs and other social media for stories tied to a [...]

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Doh! Comments Deleted

June 19, 2008

Chalk this one up to user error.
You should never try and de-spam your blog after a night out on the town. I was a bit frisky on the controls and the AJAX-y WordPress UI flipped from showing comments awaiting moderation to comments approved before I could stop myself from clicking, Delete All. I think I [...]

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FriendFeed Needs Trackback

May 29, 2008

The success of distributed commenting systems such as Disqus, Intense Debate, and most famously, FriendFeed have generated a heated debate over if we should let discussions break out all over the place in small pockets or try to gather them all together in context with the source material so that everyone can benefit from a [...]

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Positive Interference

February 27, 2008

Yesterday I commented on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog on a fundamental difference I see between Plaxo Pulse, FriendFeed and MyBlogLog and I wanted to expand a bit further here in the name of thinking out loud and getting a sense of what others think.
As I announced on the MyBlogLog blog a couple of weeks ago, we [...]

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Two Blogs to Watch

January 16, 2008

The co-founders of MyBlogLog are. . . wait for it . . . blogging!
Todd Sampson and Eric Marcoullier have brushed off their CSS chops and will turn their critical eye to the world around them. Todd’s got a baby girl on the way so we’ll get to follow that journey as well as his observations [...]

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A picture is worth a thousand words – Yahoo! Shortcuts for WordPress

December 13, 2007

When I write a blog post I make heavy use of the tabs in my browser so that I can switch back and forth between the blog compose screen and other screens where I do my research. I usually have my trusty image editor running as well so I can crop an edit any images [...]

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Climbing back up the rankings

September 8, 2007

Photo by Todd Sampson
One of the most frustrating things about moving your blog to a new domain is watching your various rankings drop off a cliff and the associated loss in all the things that come with it. Despite all the attention to detail (301 redirects, revisions on all your various social networking profiles, [...]

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The Gig is Up! Fake Steve Jobs is Unmasked

August 6, 2007

Turns out Forbes columnist, Daniel Lyons, was the one behind Fake Steve Jobs’ blog. Brilliant timing too (heh), his satirical novel written in the voice of Mr. Jobs is due to hit the shelves in October. He was outed by a reporter at the New York Times who received an advance copy of the [...]

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The Journey Begins – Consolidating multiple blogs to WordPress

August 5, 2007

Over the years I have maintained blogs on a number of different platforms. I started in 2003 with Blogger moving later to TypePad and finally to Movable Type hosted on Yahoo Small Business. In order to simplify my life, I set out to bring them all together into a single domain. What follows are my [...]

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We’re the Nicholsons

December 14, 2005

Six Apart featured a few of our Flickr photos on their new microsite promoting how blogs can be used for a holidays. I like what they wrote about Julia’s photo under "Melanie’s Music Recital."
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