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The power of staying home

After reading about Halley’s and Liz’s reception in Seattle for Search Champs, and in particular the lovely goodies they’ve received and the receptions they’re attending, I had some wistful regrets that I declined my invitation. It would have been nice to be pampered and treated as a respected guest by a software giant like Microsoft. It would also be […]

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Scoble and balance and heartbreak

I wrote this almost 20 years ago and stand by it, 100%. Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was not going to write again about Matt and WordPress, because I didn’t see that there was any point: I wrote my two posts, I said my piece, people either agree, disagree, or say to themselves, “Matt […]

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Danny Ayers: Man of steel

Aside from being a terrific dad to several cats and a cute dog, including my god-daughter Sparql, and a good writer, patient advocate of RDF, artist, and writer, Danny Ayers is also a very good hearted man. It’s an honor to know him. I haven’t met him, but it’s still an honor to know him. Thanks, Danny. […]

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Search champs and timing

I received an invitation to be part of the next team of MSN Search Champs, and I have to decide by end of day today whether to accept or not. I am flattered that the MSN team considered me good material for this group, and interested in the whole process. However, this is a real […]

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Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I am working on a follow up post on tags and folksonomies, but the going is slow, not the least because I’ve been helping folks with trackback spam and various other technical problems. Too much so at one point because I think I deleted good trackbacks along with bad in […]