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Political

The Winner of the debate was…

The American people. The Presidential debate tonight was one of the best political debates I’ve seen. Yes, there was time to bring in canned speech and talking points, but the moderator was exceptionally good at clarifying points, showing when both candidates were similar and both were different. More than that, I thought it was a […]

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Photography

New Toy

I received my beautiful new Nikon D70, and have already put it through the ‘falling off the bed’ shock test. Mustn’t play with camera while in bed, I now say over and over to myself. I am overwhelmed by what this camera can do, and the speed with which it can record even RAW format […]

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Weblogging

Volunteer for Kitchen duty

Recovered from the Wayback Machine A few weeks ago I was approached by a person (who has asked to remain anonymous), about holding a two-week clinic for webloggers and those who read webloggers and even those who don’t but still manage to use the web without stumbling all over us. He would provide the funding […]

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Technology

Submission dues (or is that dux or ducks?)

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I threw caution to the wind and submitted my carefully crafted session proposal to O’Reilly for ETech. I thought about posting it here, but is that bad luck, or poor taste? Regardless, I will tease you and tell you that is is very complementary to what Sir Tim really wants but doesn’t […]

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RDF

What is he talking about?

I’m not stupid and I know all the technologies and people referenced, but I read this recent article by Steve Gillmor and I haven’t the foggiest what he’s trying to communicate. He begins about the recent fooflah with Robert Scoble and the attack of the 50 foot syndication feed, using this to launch a tirade against timed updates […]