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But they is us

Susan Mernit pointed to an SF Weekly article on Craigslist founder Craig Newmark. Though she liked what the author, Ryan Blitstein, had to say, Susan expressed concern that he did not mention any women in the article–especially among the media critics. I’ll get into Susan’s concern later, tying it into something else I’m writing. For now, though, I […]

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Please, have an edit war

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Kevin Marks writes today: I got edited out of the history of Podcasting again by a mysterious IP address 82.108.78.107 If you do a whois lookup on this address, you can see it was Adam Curry. I did previously reinsert this reference to my Bloggercon demo with citations, and I don’t […]

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Serenitygate

Knowing I’m a fan, Dave Rogers sent me an email on Friday pointing me to a Talking Points Memo post that discussed how to get press passes for an early screening of the upcoming. “Serenity”. All we had to do was send an email to Grace Hill Media and mention we were TPM readers. I sent the […]

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Google’s Blog search

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh, yes. That’s what we needed: another one of these. I searched on Missouri and then had to wade through pages of real estate ads. From the review, I gather it searches blogs based on those pinging the ‘popular’ ping servers. The same servers that bring every comment spammer in the […]

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Define Noise

This is a test as well as a story. Scoble is very excited about a new service, Memeorandum, that ‘floats’ most linked stories to the top in two specific categories: technology and politics/current affairs. Contrary to some others who have been critical of the UI, I found it clean and relatively simple to comprehend. I would tend to think […]