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Burningbird

Sponsorship and client lists

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One result of my ruminations while I was on the road the last few weeks was a decision to accept sponsorship and/or ads for Burningbird and my other sites. I’ve signed up at Blogads, and have put a few feelers out here and there for possible sponsorship opportunities. In addition, […]

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Writing

The best of Verity Stobb

Last week I received two copies of the book, The Best of Verity Stob from Apress (ISBN number of 1-59059-442-8 for those Internet Explorer users that have AutoLink enabled). I was technical reviewer for the book, though in the end, I became more of language expert than a coding one, pointing out which of the British terms […]

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Diversity Technology

Guys Don’t Link

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Better Bad News folk did a take on the AutoLink fooflah, which is worth a chuckle, though not necessarily a guffaw. However, what I found more interesting about the page is the *list of webloggers that the BBN folks referenced: 1. Opt Out Petition 2. Dan Gillmor 3.The Scoblizer 4. Dave […]

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Social Media

Search Engine antics

Another couple of tech issues appeared several times in my overworked aggregator: Google’s AutoLink and Yahoo’s API. As soon as I read about the Yahoo API, I knew I wanted to try it out with the new site. If you look at the bottom of the sidebar, you’ll see several links that use the API […]

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Burningbird

Fun with CSS

I’ve been catching up on all the fun and interesting writings out and about and one that appeared several times in my RSS reader was kicked off by Mandarin Meg. If you haven’t read Meg’s site, she comes up with the most clever uses of CSS, providing ‘cut and paste’ examples that you can incorporate into […]