Category Archives: blogs

why does Twitter persist?

August 23, 2010 – 5:03 am

It’s terrible. Like Facebook with 5% of the feature set. Yet every company, celebrity and website feels obliged to tweet. (Even me with my 3 blogs.) Have you heard about the upcoming Facebook movie, The Social Network, based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires? If Hollywood can make an overly dramatic film about the [...]

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shout out for Climate Change activists

August 11, 2010 – 5:02 am

My buddy Morgen Hartford is on the road (by bike) … … on a memorial journey through the Pacific Northwest. Honoring old friends, creating new connections. Learning about the systems that power and shape the way we live. Here he is with a broken spoke on his most recent 1200mi ride. His excellent blog – [...]

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Jon Glaser in Singapore

August 4, 2010 – 5:03 am

Kaela and Jonathan have a blog: Rasa Yang Tidak Biasa They are staging for a tour of Asia. Awesome. Thanks Jude.

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the truth about blogs …

April 6, 2010 – 5:01 am

Thanks Kate.

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Imagewell, Snagit, Jing for Mac

April 3, 2010 – 5:01 am

I use “screen grab” software every day. This image was created by Snagit: There are many screen grab options on the Mac. But I’m happiest with Imagewell. It’s been free … until recently. I just dropped $14.95 to get the paid version. Money well spent, I feel. Snagit and Jing are similar products, both free [...]

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videos – embedded or on YouTube?

January 26, 2010 – 5:05 am

by site editor Rick McCharles On this site I try to give you a choice between watching videos on the same page. Or by jumping to YouTube or another site. It’s faster to watch the embedded video. AND embedded YouTube videos normally do not have those annoying overlay ads. If you’re in a hurry, just [...]

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missing FRIENDS in Facebook?

January 25, 2010 – 3:55 pm

I love Facebook, but some of their redesign decisions SUCK. Recently I’ve noticed that some of my friends updates were not appearing in my Feed. Why is that? Turns out that Facebook decided to show me only 250 of my 500+ friends. Somehow they were choosing what 250 I’d want to see. Those who post [...]

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Boing Boing – 55,000+ posts

January 22, 2010 – 5:09 am

Blogging is dead. Again. I guess Boing Boing didn’t get the memo. From Cory Doctorow: … I still feel like we’ve barely scratched the surface of the Internet’s inexhaustible supply of “wonderful things.” You know, you sometimes hear people talking about how crap everything on the net … and I wonder, “Are these people looking [...]

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State of the World 2010

January 6, 2010 – 4:43 am

Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre. Bruce Sterling annually addresses the State of the World and Things Various and Sundry. It’s very amusing, scary and thoughtful. … the polarity of [...]

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Shelter vs House

December 26, 2009 – 12:02 am

One of my favourite blogs is As The Crow Flies. Long distance hiking, primitive cabin dwelling, hermit life Crow actually lives my philosophy of Voluntary Simplicity. I admire her. Here she explains why a simple cabin is far superior to a modern “home”. … When it’s dark, you know it’s dark. When it’s cold outside, [...]

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