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Social Media Weblogging

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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Critters

Small moments

My roommate came home this afternoon and asked when the bush on the corner had been removed. I had just been downstairs and when I looked out the window, the small, sickly bush on the corner of the dirt in front of our place was still there; still stubbornly hanging on, even if the management […]

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Social Media Weblogging

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 […]

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Events of note People Political Weather

Bye Brown

As expected Michael Brown has resigned as head of FEMA. However, though a move in the right direction, it’s not enough. As the article mentions, the government needs to move FEMA back out into a department of its own, and, contrary to some who may believe otherwise, return it to dealing with natural disasters rather than this obsession […]

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Social Media

Change begins closer to home

I did want to point out that there has been a good number of really great comments attached to the Change Starts at Home post. In particular, if you’re interested in social software, inequality within weblogging, and so on, you might want to take a look. Seth pointed out the Symposium on Social Architecture ‘do’ at Harvard come November. Before […]