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Books

Laura Claridge

Abbas Raza at 3 Quarks posts a pointer to a bio of Laura Claridge, former professor and author. Ms. Claridge is currently writing a book on Emily Post titled, Emily Post and the American Dream: Red Shoes, White Gloves, and the Little Blue Book, a book I look forward to reading.

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Weblogging

Teflon Webloggers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I read in comments this week about how a recent attendee at Tim O’Reilly’s FOO camp was the originator of all the discussion about there not being enough women in tech conferences such as Tim’s camp. I was surprised, and yes, hurt to find out that it only takes about 6 […]

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Weblogging

Flickr has been geo’d

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Flickr has introduced a new geo mapping service where you can drag your photos to a map (or provide longitude and latitude) and it will geotag the photos for you. The site has also added new search facilities that incorporates this capability. Millions have geotagged their photo, including 1.1 million photos of […]

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Technology

Dried apples

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. John Dvorak writes on the possibility of a Sun/Apple merger now that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, has joined the Apple Board. I must admit to scratching my head, and going ‘huh’ on that one. Apple + Google = Sun? If this does occur, I wouldn’t expect the customers to benefit. All three […]

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Weblogging

Wag the Valley

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Geez, ValleyWag has been good lately. Six Effects of Eric Schmidt Joining Apple’s Board, including Cloud of Smug. The pointer to the great story about half.com, Oregon. Pointing to a disappointing but telling photo from the Women 2.0 pool party. It’s nice to have a visual to go with my words when I write […]