Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What is it about accents? Everyone has a favorite accent. Whether you believe it or not, you speak with an accent — to people with other accents. Take English, and variations of same. Probably the most common accent in the US is the “mainstream” accent — think national TV newscaster […]
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Googlestak
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One last post as a favor to my antipodean friends. (Antipodean — what a perfect word. You meet the most charming and erudite people in weblogging.) Victor wants to try to do a Googlestak — stacking the decks for a Google search by having webloggers link to a specific web site. The more links […]
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In praise of Notepad
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After working with Radio 8.0, Blogger Pro, Graymatter, and Moveable Type this weekend (for writing assignments and for my own weblog use), I have reached a saturation point. Right at this moment, I can’t stand any of them — equally. Even taking a break and doing some work on one of the […]
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Googlestak
Recovered from the Wayback Machine Victor is trying to see how we can influence Google page rankings, using weblog links. He’s calling the process Googlestak. It will be interesting to see if this effort works. Target link is Stand Out Training — Victor’s company. Because of my interest in the semantic web, I’ve always been interested in our […]
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Rude RSS poster
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Looking at RSS posts and the results in the News Aggregator, I’m finding that I’m a rude poster. My postings are quite large. My last one is huge. Within the Aggregator, they take up a disportionately large amount of space. Will RSS/syndication create a new set of rules regarding polite behavior? Keep […]