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November 05, 2005
Weblog Advertising Yields Audi Dramatic, Cost-Efficient Results
“29 percent of traffic to a site created as part of a recent Audi A3 campaign was generated by advertising on the BlogAds network. The kicker is that 29 percent was achieved with just one half of one percent of the overall media budget” (via
Reecie)
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October 11, 2005
Thou good and faithful servant.
“He was a good friend. He was my best friend.”
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September 19, 2005
The Assholosphere
“Reid said in an email: ‘I think we need to dump to blogosphere and initiate the assholosphere.’” It’s true. Chief Broom, Walt, Wally, etc. ... your special talents are needed. 24FC is already
in da house.
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September 14, 2005
Google launches Blog Search
Hey, Technorati ... this is what happens when you rest on your laurels. You finally fixed your Cosmos search, but only days before the 800 pound gorilla arrived.
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August 22, 2005
The Tail That Wags the Blog
Highly hilarious, and hilariously accurate. Each paragraph is a free standing gem
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August 02, 2005
State of the Blogosphere, August 2005, Part 1: Blog Growth
“The blogosphere continues to double about every 5.5 months”
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July 27, 2005
HughPage
“Think of it as an open source ‘craiglist’ for bloggers.”
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July 18, 2005
Michael Totten: Left, Right, and Center
Move from the left to the center, and your former peers will trash you
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John Cole: Just Asking for Trouble
Move from the right to the center, and your former peers will trash you
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July 16, 2005
Fighting Words
“Take two bloggers from opposite ends of the overheated political debate, put them on a Washington tour bus together, then ponder the fate of an increasingly uncivil society”
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Another Blog Survey
This one reveals “2/3 of blog readers don’t realize they are reading a blog.” That’s right, this isn’t a blog, it’s a serial reality novel.
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July 04, 2005
“Delegitimizing bloggers”
The first sign you may be taking blogging too seriously: you completely lose your sense of humor, get mad over the Sunday Comics, and take it personally.
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July 03, 2005
Wired: Robot Wisdom on the Street
“On his panhandler sign, [Jorn] Barger had written: Coined the term ‘weblog,’ never made a dime.”
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If Thomas Jefferson was a Blogger
“This is typical Democratic-Republican bullshittery, Tom. If I’m hearing you correctly, what you’re saying is simply because you believe it, it’s true. Okay, well, I’m saying you suck -- seems fairly ‘self-evident’ to me.”
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June 21, 2005
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June 17, 2005
Contest gets the lowdown on what makes readers forward links
“The Contagious Media Showdown sought who could create the most popular Web site in 22 days. While winners such as Forget-Me-Not Panties seem obvious now -- their winning strategies are not”
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May 21, 2005
Arianna’s $5 million blog steals bandwidth
Blog Lesson #1 - hotlinking someone else’s image on the home page of your $5 million start-up will get you burned. You’re lucky their replaced image was nice ... I would have fed you something really embarrassing
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May 11, 2005
Dave Winer, Still a Total Butthead
After a
lengthy effort, he’s now completed his mission of pissing off each of the 8 Gazillion bloggers, one by one. Congrats! ... can you retire now?
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April 30, 2005
Trackback is dead. Are Comments dead too?
“Trackback, I come to praise and bury you. May you rest in peace...”
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April 10, 2005
Power Line: “We did not report as a fact that the memo was a fake”
No, they just quoted a headline “Was the Schiavo Memo a Fake?” in a post with the capitalized subject line
“ANSWER: YES”. But it’s not like they swore on a Bible or anything, it’s deniable. And that’s all that matters.
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April 08, 2005
“Bloggers Pitch Fits Over Glitches”
Yet
another cycle of whining over Blogger/Blogspot outages that will drive people to new platforms on their own domains. I think the web has
gone into reruns.
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April 06, 2005
Sploid
I think ”Sploid’ means “exploded a tabloid all over a web page,” but since Ken Layne is involved, it may have the right warp factor to it. The headlines got ‘tude, if nothing else
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March 25, 2005
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March 23, 2005
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March 11, 2005
I bought this domain to keep it out of a spammer’s hands
The weblog spam battle has reached this point ... and it’s a fine idea
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February 25, 2005
The MetaFilter “Community” dances on Kottke’s head
What was once a community is now a bloody scrum of blind sharks, who can’t even see what they’re doing when Matt points it out (said former user #3914)
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NYTimes drags Evan Williams from bed for photo session
They “founded Odeo in a San Francisco apartment” that apparently contains no mirrors or hair styling utensils
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February 20, 2005
Main Stream Media hits Bloggers where it hurts
Big-time WSJ columnist takes over blogger’s laptops at convention, not once, but
twice
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February 12, 2005
Reecie.com: In the spirit of Valentine’s Day
Mr. Reecie’s a lucky man. But then, so am I. There’s nothing so valuable as the true love of a good woman.
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Photos, Blogging And Fair Use
“Just because they’re a blog they’re not exempt from copyright law and they’re not entitled to a free ride.”
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January 31, 2005
Interview with a blog spammer
“The reality is that people purchase Viagra, they require porn, they gamble online. When people do that, there’s money being made”
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January 27, 2005
Blog Overkill - The danger of hyping a good thing into the ground
“I hadn’t witnessed such public expressions of high self-esteem since the last time I attended a journalism awards ceremony”
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January 24, 2005
New MT vulnerability
Spammers are now hijacking MT comments in a new way (TextDrive has
shut it down)
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January 21, 2005
You might need to get a life if...
”...You make harsh statements about people and link to them in the process because you get a special thrill attempting to humiliate people in public”
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January 18, 2005
Sketchy Behavior from Noah
Noah goes black and white in a whole new way
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Google, Yahoo, and MSN support new anti-spam attribute
Google sez “when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results”
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January 17, 2005
EarthLink enters blogging universe (reg. req’d)
“The idea came from EarthLink’s public relations department because of worries that news was traveling faster on blogs than in conventional media.”
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Disaster Written All Over It
But it “Doesn’t matter” ... lovely writing about a “web connection”
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Not-So-Spontaneous Human Combustion
Chris Nolan on the Kos-Teachout Blowout: “This, my friends, is spin. It’s positioning. It’s politics. And it ain’t a coincidence.”
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There’s...
something ...
happening ...
here
What it is is exactly clear
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January 15, 2005
Brouhaha in the blogosphere
“Whoever decided to pay any of you is an idiot. Oh that’s right ... it was Joe Trippi.”
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January 14, 2005
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January 12, 2005
The Folly Of Content Management
“Do we really need to wear those goat-leggings and should we really be worshipping Google?”
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January 09, 2005
The Broken Windows theory applies to comment spam, too
“Unremoved spam + fast google caching = lots more spam”
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January 05, 2005
Six Apart Guide to Combatting Comment Spam
I hope their advice and latest patch work (I’ve seen some evidence it isn’t), because the next escalation could be ugly
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December 21, 2004
Blog and Forum automatic submission scripts
“If bloggers are powerful enough to take down a TV news anchor, I’d imagine that a concerted effort to choke off distribution sources would be successful as well.”
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Movable Type 3.14 released
“we strongly recommend that all Movable Type users install this update,” and from
Mena: “We’ve got a common goal, that is platform neutral - to get spammers out of our space”
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Blog Happy!
That’s all you need to know for now
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December 20, 2004
Comment Spammers Have Blogs of Their Own
And Jeremy adds to the call for some form of “no-index” marker to wrap around comments, eliminating the benefit of comment spam
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December 18, 2004
threshold state: Comment spam, and a disheartening realisation
Alex makes some excellent points, especially about the CAPTCHA method of verification
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December 12, 2004
MSNBC: The Alpha Bloggers
“No one hired them. No one appointed them”
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December 09, 2004
A Blogfather shouldn’t have to bury his Blogchildren
Of the ten blogs listed as my “children,” four of them are dead, and three appear to be in a coma for a month or longer. I must be a Bad Daddy.
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December 06, 2004
brushstroke.tv: She’s baaacckk!
After 8 months, Mel returns, with an opening line identical to the closing line in ‘Memento’
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December 05, 2004
If you can’t win a weblog award by the rules, write a voting ‘bot and cheat!
Better yet, what if we agree that all of these “weblog awards” have always been a sad chest-thumping joke, rather than make ourselves look infantile trying to win one?
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December 02, 2004
Why Do We Blog?
“Here are reflections from thirty-five bloggers...”
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November 25, 2004
Textpattern Resources
A well done new site for Textpattern plug-ins, templates, tips, and tutorials
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November 19, 2004
Mark Cuban is fined by the NBA ... because of his blog
“Do the customers and fans of the NBA or other leagues, feel it makes the league appear stronger, weaker or unaffected when a player, owner, coach, GM, or executive publicly criticizes the league?”
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October 28, 2004
The New York Times discovers Cat Blogging
It’s been bringing partisan warriors together for a long time
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October 26, 2004
Blogger’s Head Explodes
“His browser history documents that he went from Drudge to Real Clear Politics to Talking Points Memo to Instapundit to Fox News to the New York Times to MSNBC to Kos to Roger Simon to Little Green Footballs to The Corner to Atrios to Google News to Allah to Belmont Club to Wonkette and finally, and probably fatally, to Andrew Sullivan”
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October 15, 2004
Iran cracks down on blog protests, arrests 6
They are charged with ‘acting against national security, disturbing the public mind and insulting sanctities’
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October 01, 2004
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September 22, 2004
Andrew Sullivan: A Blogger’s Creed
“Like Internet Jack Russell terriers, readers grab ahold of your pants and don’t let go until you have made amends”
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September 20, 2004
A birthday present from Dean: Textpattern 1.0rc1 (
more here)
Textpattern graduates from ‘Gamma’ to ‘Release Candidate’
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September 14, 2004
Managing static pages with Textpattern
Another fine TXP tutorial from the ZemMaster
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September 07, 2004
Creating a photoblog with Textpattern
May not have all the frills you want, but it’s amazingly simple
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September 06, 2004
Gallina: Uses a Gmail account to run a blog!
Cool idea, but as long as Google keeps altering login procedures, it might be a problem
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August 30, 2004
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August 20, 2004
Six Apart: “Cute... and Evil!”
My conspiracy theory involves the number *6*, times MT *3* equals Mena Trott is the Anti-Christ. It should have been obvious all along
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A rare photo of a Monkey Man
What’s really scary is how much he’s taking after his dad ... at 10 weeks old
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August 11, 2004
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August 10, 2004
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August 09, 2004
An Overview of the Weblog Tools Market
Only about 15% of bloggers use a ‘stand-alone’ program like MT, WP, TXP, etc.
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July 27, 2004
Wireless Election Connection MoBlog
Take this site, add maybe eight years, and think about the future
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July 15, 2004
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July 14, 2004
2 parents, 10 children, and 36 siblings
Oh .. My ... God! My Dad is also one of my siblings! I’m a product of blogcest.
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July 08, 2004
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July 07, 2004
Comment spammers try nasty new tricks
It may be like hackers going after IE ... 3 months with Textpattern, Zero Spam
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Blogs By Their Covers
A showcase of cool design
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Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs
Academic ‘essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities’
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July 01, 2004
TextDrive adds a very sweet $12/month plan
300mb of space, 3 GB of bandwidth/mo., 6 MySQL databases, to host up to 3 domains. Plus all the standard TextDrive GoodStuff.
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June 30, 2004
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June 25, 2004
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June 23, 2004
Photoblog: America Is...
Some damn fine photography, and interesting stories, too
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June 20, 2004
Moving from Movable Type to Textpattern
“about my experience converting two Movable Type (MT) blogs to Textpattern (TXP)”
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It’s a Boy! A big one
I’m proud to be a blogfather again this late in life.
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June 16, 2004
Everybody kisses and makes up with Ben and Mena
“At least, those that haven’t already dumped MT during the 2 months of license limbo”
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June 14, 2004
hicksdesign: Textpattern migration
“There was also a indescribable something about Textpattern. It just clicked with me...”
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June 06, 2004
JimFormation: New and Improved! Now with More Baby Pix!
Jim does a major redesign while raising a relative newborn, and the multitasking influences the design.
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May 27, 2004
mezzoblue : Comment Highlighting
An interesting experiment in ‘marking up’ comments
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May 24, 2004
Textpattern Forum: “Textpattern is Open Source Software”
A dual license approach “intended to keep options open for everybody who wishes to use Textpattern, from an individual weblog publisher to a multinational corporation”
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May 22, 2004
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May 21, 2004
Bloglines: Most Popular Links
Very nicely done, despite the fact it’s been done before
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Blogads: results from the reader survey for blog advertising.
“61% of blog readers responding to the survey are over 30, and 75% make more than $45,000 a year.”
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Snopes.com: Andy Kaufman is still dead
“I have no doubts that he’d find a much more imaginative way of revealing his return than a free press release and a rather ordinary blog”
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May 19, 2004
Is Nick Denton the Vince Dooley of blogs?
Vince was the master of lowering expectations and poor mouthing his chances, while talking up his competition
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Look who’s Google’s #1 “Moderate Blog”!
In the blogoshere, that’s a bit like being #1 Iraqi Tank Commander
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How are you using Movable Type? Answers:
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Lots of interesting Trackbacks to follow
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May 16, 2004
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“I’m not gay, not brilliant, not artistic, and I really have nothing worthwhile to say, several times a week...”
A Usenet Master of past acquaintance finally makes the blog transition ... pleasing old timers like me and a certain donkey
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May 15, 2004
Welcome to the World, Caldwell James McCormick!
Your Daddy is a major wacko, but since you have his name, inverted, we expect you’ll be fine
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May 14, 2004
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May 12, 2004
Iron Blogger Debates Begin, on the topic of Rumsfeld
Nothing like starting with a good meaty topic ... but will it remain civil?
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May 11, 2004
The Blogosphere just got a lot prettier
Nice new standards compliant templates from Blogger and some great designers
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May 05, 2004
“Sun Policy on Public Discourse” (they mean blogging)
“By speaking directly to the world, without benefit of management approval, we are accepting higher risks in the interest of higher rewards”
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May 04, 2004
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“Well, baby, it was a nice short fling...”
Every three years or so, I make a half dozen posts at Blogger.
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May 03, 2004
Congrats to Oliver on the new gig
And such perks! ‘Most importantly, I’ll get to go to Redskins games’
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April 25, 2004
Michael Demmons shuts down Discount Blogger
I hate to see a local blogger quit, but I respect the reasons
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April 23, 2004
Whatever was up with the TypeKey signup page, they fixed it!
Got me a profile. Had to grab ‘photodude’ before someone else did
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Pop-up Screenshot: What’s wrong with this TypeKey sign-up error page?
There is no ‘image below’ with a number for me to match, nor a form box for entering it.
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April 22, 2004
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Is “Hot Abercrombie Chick” actually a “Chick”?
“Just received an inside tip that the recently famous Hot Abercrombie Chick is really a male college student capitalizing on cute pictures of his girlfriend”
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April 15, 2004
“Blogging has led to a student community beyond the borders of the campus, a community that Reed administrators can’t control but can peek at.”
“What leads many to blog is the chance to reveal emotions and thoughts, and perhaps some wisdom, during a time when life is all about transition.”
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April 13, 2004
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April 12, 2004
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April 10, 2004
How to revive a Dead Donkey
Hmmm. Check out that left side gradation. Have I revived a trend?
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April 05, 2004
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March 28, 2004
From Sgt. Stryker: Digital Warfighter - Total Information Dominance
“The great thing about this new site is that people just like you will directly determine the quality of the place”
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March 23, 2004
TypeKey and Movable Type Comment Registration FAQ
Good, webloggers need new fodder to spat over, and already, this appears to be plenty
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March 18, 2004
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