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Weblogging

Becoming a dead bore

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well, I’ve become such a dead bore, lately. Either writing on technology, or other stuff that lacks zip and zing. I should be writing about Chris Locke rising from the dead in his manic phase. Hey Chris, if you want to know about Krakens, holler, I have a story for you. Gary Turner has […]

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Photography

Sentimental Reasons

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon Delacour writes about sentiment and freshman photographers: When I taught photography, the photographs taken by first year students were—with very few exceptions—sentimental clichés. As an attempt to counter this, Jonathon and the other photography department instructors posted a notice that banned certain subjects in photographs the students submitted, such as closeups of […]

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Just Shelley

Did someone say non-techie?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been writing primarily about technology lately, though I want to assure one and all that this is NOT the focus of this weblog — it’s just one area of interest in my life. I do want to apologize to those who had subscribed to my RSS feeds, as I […]

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Technology Weblogging

Consumer rights and RSS

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Yesterday was a disappointing technology day. I had hoped to use the position of devil’s advocate at the RSS-Dev group to see if we couldn’t get a firmer definition of what the group sees as its future direction, strategy, as well as specific reasons for use of RDF. I continue to see […]

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Web

Who is your audience and what are you trying to accomplish?

Recovered from Wayback Machine. Just posted the following over at RSS-Dev (edited to remove typos): There seems to be three separate threads running along the lines of “Who are we and what are we trying to accomplish”, mixed in with proofs and justification of keeping RDF in the mix. How can the energy expended into […]