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Burningbird Social Media

Focusing on the social in social software

Yule, who is about the most wonderful kicker of butts I know of, posted a link to my previous entry in a comment at another thread related to comment spamming. Unfortunately, the tone of my post had more impact then the words, which shows the dangers of writing in anything other than the most non-emotive manner. But […]

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

MT Comment Help

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m not starting up Burningbird but a lot of good people were hit badly by a very sophisticated comment spam attack, including the Wayward webloggers who I’m responsible to. The attackers this time only posted three comments to each post, each with different names, and different URLs. They either used […]

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Just Shelley

To Keep Burningbird Or Not

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One issue I’ve been debating off and of about with myself is whether to keep the Burningbird weblog. I’ve splintered off so many interests into different weblogs, and the main reason I do so is there is there is an assumption that everything I write is somehow a ‘flame’ and […]

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Just Shelley

Wishing you simple joys in 2004

Thank you for you this year. Thank you for sharing your life, hopes, interests, milestones, beautiful writing, wonderous images, your tears and your giggles. Thank you for stopping by and giving me the most important gift we can give each other: your time. Here’s wishing you a new year filled with simple joys: time shared […]

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Just Shelley

Lighter than air

I arrived at LA yesterday at 11AM and California threw a party. Lots of rattling and rolling. Drive to San Francisco was rush hour the entire distance between the two cities. I cancelled my plans to drive 101 tomorrow due to the quake – so it’s the I5 corridor and LA–again. Yesterday I also delivered […]