Tag Test
I’m just curious about this. Ecto has tags on the side that I use occasionally, but they insert into the bottom of the post as a footer type deal. Now that I’m a version of Wordpress with tags built in, is the whole deal hooked together well enough that these will just recognized as Wordpress [...]
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Tags: ecto, wordpressNew Host Test
If you see this post, that means you are looking at the new host. Things aren’t perfect but it’s getting there. I’m happy to be getting shed of my old hosting box, which was aging and lately needed a reboot EVERY! SINGLE! DAY! Dreamhost is far from perfect but at least it is easy to [...]
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EGC Clambake for March 30, 2008
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 30, 2008. I play an audio promo for our Create South conference, and a song by Chris Yale. I talk about the new MacBook that I’m doing the show on, apologize that things aren’t quite the same when I reach for them and [...]
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Tags: chrisyale, createsouth, jillsobule, siderunnersThe Siderunners Live
I’ve gotten a few emails from Nate “Siderunner” Van Allen pointing to the Siderunners website. Although the band is somewhere between on hiatus and defunct, they are releasing MP3s of the live shows they did on their last tour. I don’t know how many times I’ve played them in my show and I’ll definitely be [...]
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Tags: siderunnersBad Mood on a Beautiful Day
I’m at lunch down by the beach on an absolutely beautiful day, and yet I’m in a bad mood. I went to a Schlotzky’s despite my instincts because they are all supposed to have wifi and I wanted to get some work done outside of the office today. I came down here, stood in line [...]
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Create South Audio Promo
Here is a downloadable audio promo for the Create South conference. It is Creative Commons licensed Attribution, which is more or less impossible to use without attributing it since the promo is its own attribution. For those of you friendly to our project, if you’d throw this in your own podcasts or even just your [...]
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Tags: createsouth*-Camps vs Conferences
Eric Rice rethinks the whole *-Camp thing. His suggestions are goofy and for comedic effect but you know, they aren’t miles away from the thinking behind Create South. From the very first conversation I ever had about it, I knew I wanted it to be more doing things and less talking about doing things. The [...]
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Twitter Zeitgeist
My Twitter fast continues. I’ve looked at it for less than 15 minutes each for the last two days. As I tweeted yesterday:
I thought that I would miss Twitter like an addict craving a fix. Instead it felt more like having a hypnotist cure a nervous tic overnight.
Garrick van Buren forwarded me a [...]
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Tags: garrickvanburen, twitterConfession
I don’t know what being “rickrolled” means, and I don’t care enough to google it.
Update: Chris Yale in email and Don Moore in comments explain it to me. The reality is less interesting than I would have ever dreamed.
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Google Reader Exploit
I’m listening to Steve Gillmor’s News Gang from March 13th and a large part of what they are talking about is one of Steve’s recent hot button issues. He calls it the “Google Reader Shared Items exploit”. Basically, when you use Google Reader and you share items, they can be seen by your “friends” in [...]
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Tags: googlereaderMore Twitter Skepticism
I’m following the lead of Garrick van Buren and making today a non-Twitter day. Instead I will go back to the mode I used to be in where I made a mix of long blog posts and some short ones. Twitter has definitely eaten the short posts out of my blogging queue.
I forgot to mention [...]
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Rethinking Twitter
I was a long time Twitter skeptic and late last fall I joined up and started using it. It seems like many people have such a conversion and then after they begin using the service they go from Saul of Blogging to the apostle Paul of Twitter immediately. My experience is unique in that while [...]
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Tags: twitterInbox Nonzero
I spent the early part of this year in email inbox zero state. It was quite nice and helped alleviate some of that free-floating anxiety that GTD exists to quell. However, when I got sick in mid-February it ballooned and I’m back to being behind. I’m trying like a dog to get it back to [...]
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I Have a MacBook
Last weekend we went to Raleigh for a long weekend of just getting out of our day to day lives for a bit. While there we ate food and shopped for things we can’t get at home. One of the biggest (in terms of excitement and cash) was a new MacBook for me. I had [...]
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The Death of Online Video
Ninja boy Kent Nichols posted another of his periodic attention getting link bait articles (mission accomplished, sir) titled “Is Online Video Dead?” I think the first “podcasting is dead” article I saw was in April of 2005 and they’ve been coming ever since. This whole line of thinking used to depress me but now it [...]
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Overload
The day job has been highly busy and the rest of life more so lately. We took a few days and went to Raleigh and just hung out, ate at restaurants we don’t have here and shopped at stores we don’t have here. I walked out with a new black MacBook. I’ve upgraded the laptop [...]
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CreateSouth, New Media Conference in Myrtle Beach April 19th
OK kids, registration for the CreateSouth conference is open for business! The conference is April 19th from 9 to 5 PM in downtown Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. All attendees are invited, whether you live and breath new media or are interested but slightly frightened by it. If you are a professional journalist or a politician [...]
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Tags: createsouth, myrtlebeachDave Stevens, R.I.P.
Sadly, artist and writer Dave Stevens died of leukemia yesterday. Here is Mark Evanier’s obituary of him. I’ve been a fan of the late Mr. Stevens since reading the Rocketeer stories in Pacific comics in the early 80’s. His art has always been fantastic, whether in comic book form or his exquisite paintings. [...]
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I Need Help Testing Comments
I’ve heard from several people that ordinary use of the comments has been triggering the Bad Behavior plugin, usually with an error that the “user agent has changed since the page was downloaded.” The only thing that has changed recently has been turning on the WP-Cache plugin for the whole site. I’ve upgraded the cache [...]
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Public Radio Fails Me
This blog post has been percolating for a very long time and now I finally am getting to it. As it turns out, it is more timely than I would have expected considering last night’s forum at MPR in Minneapolis (or at least it was last night two weeks ago when I first started writing [...]
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