December 2009
3 posts
Teen tweeter cashes-in on SUL placement
BBC: “A Twitter feed set up by a Dutch teenager as a hobby has been taken over by Microsoft news channel MSNBC.com.”
The report emphasizes the rate that the feed is growing, by 3000 to 4000 followers per day. What it doesn’t say is that the feed is on Twitter’s Suggested Users List, and that growth is normal for feeds on the list, even ones that aren’t run by...
Teen tweeter cashes-in on SUL placement
BBC: “A Twitter feed set up by a Dutch teenager as a hobby has been taken over by Microsoft news channel MSNBC.com.”
The report emphasizes the rate that the feed is growing, by 3000 to 4000 followers per day. What it doesn’t say is that the feed is on Twitter’s Suggested Users List, and that growth is normal for feeds on the list, even ones that aren’t run by...
Testing the new LifeLiner glossary
It should now automatically turn a side-smiley into an image:
My weblog is Scripting News.
I write blog posts on WordPress.
November 2009
7 posts
This is a test post on Tumblr
I’ve got a dream that someday this text will appear on my Tumblr site. (Check.)
The cool thing about this is that now we have parity between Tumblr and WordPress as far as the LifeLiner tool is concerned.
Now we have a very nice and unique leveling of the playing field with three publishing environments. The third is, of course, Twitter. :-)
Rebooting The News #34
FULL SHOW NOTES TO FOLLOW.
WE TALKED ABOUT GOOGLE WAVE, TWITTER’S NEW WHAT’S HAPPENING PROMPT, LINKING OUT, JULIE & JULIA, NATURAL BORN BLOGGERS, PATENTS, BAY BRIDGE REPORTING.
HTTP://MP3.MORNINGCOFFEENOTES.COM/REBOOT09NOV23.MP3
IMHO ONE OF OUR BETTER CONVERSATIONS. :-)
Rebooting The News #34
FULL SHOW NOTES TO FOLLOW.
WE TALKED ABOUT GOOGLE WAVE, TWITTER’S NEW WHAT’S HAPPENING PROMPT, LINKING OUT, JULIE & JULIA, NATURAL BORN BLOGGERS, PATENTS, BAY BRIDGE REPORTING.
HTTP://MP3.MORNINGCOFFEENOTES.COM/REBOOT09NOV23.MP3
IMHO ONE OF OUR BETTER CONVERSATIONS. :-)
Rebooting The News #34
Full show notes to follow.
We talked about Google Wave, Twitter’s new What’s Happening prompt, linking out, Julie & Julia, Natural Born Bloggers, Patents, Bay Bridge reporting.
http://mp3.morningcoffeenotes.com/reboot09Nov23.mp3
Imho one of our better conversations. :-)
50 random states
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June 2009
15 posts
Ski Picture
Why open standards are important
If you look at the archive of Scripting News for May 1999, ten years ago, you’ll see how important open formats are.
At the time, a large company, Netscape, had done deals with major content vendors, Wired, Red Herring, Salon, Motley Fool and several others, to provide a flow of news for their new web app, my.netscape.com.
They didn’t have to make this information public, they...
Why open standards are important
If you look at the archive of Scripting News for May 1999, ten years ago, you’ll see how important open formats are.
At the time, a large company, Netscape, had done deals with major content vendors, Wired, Red Herring, Salon, Motley Fool and several others, to provide a flow of news for their new web app, my.netscape.com.
They didn’t have to make this information public, they...
50 random states
Idaho Montana West Virginia Utah Montana Texas Indiana Utah Louisiana Indiana Texas Wyoming South Dakota Tennessee New York Rhode Island Oregon Georgia Nevada California Wisconsin West Virginia Iowa North Dakota Virginia Georgia North Dakota Georgia Oklahoma Virginia New Mexico Pennsylvania Ohio Arizona Alaska Virginia Missouri Indiana Arkansas Vermont Montana Rhode Island Pennsylvania Kentucky...
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