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Weblogging

Falling Out

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Shel Israel, in comments to Robert Scoble’s post, where he mentions he’s being paid to be keynote speaker at the PayPerPost conference (yes, that PayPerPost): Robert, I am personally disappointed that you have chosen to do this. To me Pay for Post represents everything that the book you and I wrote […]

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Government

The Boston TV Story

Sheila points to a good story on the recent Boston ‘terror’ alert, with bomb squad folks blowing up electronic boards with characters flipping the bird. She also has a good comment of her own: Get a grip and admit you jumped straight to the doomsday scenario without investigating more plausible explanations. It’s not the kids’ fault that […]

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Political

Ameren Change of Venue

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ameren has filed a change of venue in the state lawsuit regarding the Taum Sauk dam break. They want the case tried in Reynolds country, rather than St. Louis. The reasons are obvious: Reynolds County has developed an economic dependency on Ameren. Despite the extensive natural resource and property damage caused […]

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Web

Old Skool

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  Lifted my head long enough from Adding Ajax to see a fooflah about Flickr’s newest announcement. Flickr had said a long time ago that there would be a time when you won’t be able to have a login separate from a Yahoo account. Today the group announced that it’s no longer […]

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Diversity Technology

A Matter of Language

When all things are equal, inequality reflects failure. Virginia DeBolt responded to my earlier writing about technology education being broken with a post about Educating Women in Technology. She references two innovative programs: New Horizons, at Mills College in Oakland, California, which teaches computer technology to those with a non-technical background; and the University of […]