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Dave Winer's weblog, started in April 1997, bootstrapped the blogging revolution.
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Julie and Julia
Just got an email from Andrew Grumet with an amazing story. He writes: "Julie Powell, who blogged her way through a Julia Child book on blogs.salon.com. Then the blog got her a book deal and some minor celebrity. Now they're making a movie out of it... with Meryl Streep!!! (in the role of Julia Ch …
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How newspapers tried to invent the web
Fascinating Slate article about how Newspapers "tried to invent the web." A lot of it absolutely true -- I thought I was in the "videotext" industry when I started out in tech in the early 80s, so much so that I named my company Living Videotext. I made countless trips back to NY to meet with people …
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One thing I love about Twitter
Is the way they display individual twits so bold and The other guys should follow this cue.
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Apple keynote on Twitter?
How are you getting the latest news on the Apple keynote on Twitter? Who are you following? Here are some of the people I'd watch... http://twitter.com/Gartenberg http://twitter.com/gruber http://twitter.com/Veronica http://twitter.com/LeoLaporte http://twitter.com/ryanblock Chris Pirillo has …
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I'm in heaven
The Internet has many wonderful applications, but I doubt if people think of it as a romance platform, but it is. Case in point. I was looking for some music to play for my friends on Twitter the other night, and I don't remember how I stumbled on this wonderful recording of Ella Fitzgerald and Lou …
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Rethinking authentication
First a caveat, this is going to be a technical post, so if you're not interested in techie stuff, you can skip it. However, I'm going to try to make it understandable to smart users who are willing to scratch their heads and read it two or three times, if you care to. There's been a persistent prob …
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Why our customers are smart
I often tell stories about companies who treat their customers or developers as if they were idiots. But that's not to say my own company, the one I started, didn't do this too -- it did. It's human nature, but it's bad human nature, it's self-defeating, it's dysfunctional. When I heard someone say …
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RSS as the foundation for realtime
Steve Gillmor has been on a campaign to get Feedburner to wake up and make his Feedburner feed more responsive. I support him in this. Now that Feedburner is pwned by Google, there's something kind of sneaky about a big company that prides itself on keeping its servers up and responsive all the time …
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Why Twitter *can't* be conversational for me
I've tried to use it conversationally, but it quickly falls apart. Consider an example. Suppose I say the sky is blue. Someone says: "What do you mean by that?" Now I have three choices: 1. Ignore it. 2. Ask what they're referring to. 3. Assume they mean my statement that the sky is blue, and expla …
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Twitter in 140 characters
Jay Rosen asked: "Write a 140 character post that explains what you find Twitter useful for." DW: "Twitter is my shared notepad. If I want to remember something and I don't mind if everyone else knows it, I just post it here." Only 126 characters.
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Helping FriendFeed?
Louis Gray offers some noble help to FriendFeed, filling in as the marketing department they don't have. Of course it would help if they did do some marketing. They may not be aware of it, but Twitter didn't just wait for people to come to them, they put up displays all over SXSW in 2006 to boot up …
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MediaWiki API
Well, thanks to Andrew Burton I got access to a MediaWiki installation with the API turned on, and I was able to make a couple of trivial calls successfully, but I hit a wall when it came to doing the thing I set out to do. I have no doubt from reading the docs that it's possible, I just can't figur …
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Mac at 25
On January 24, 1984 a couple thousand people were present at Flint Center in Cupertino at the birth of something with real lasting value, the Macintosh. It's corny for sure -- but it was exciting. Hard as it is to believe -- that was almost 25 years ago! My company rolled out a product that day too …
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CradlePoint PHS300 first look
The new router arrived this evening, I charged it up, followed the minimal instructions, and it worked the first time. I'm using the router now to write this blog post. I'll have unboxing pictures soon, but first the speed test. speedtest.net thinks I'm in Kansas City, MO. People ask why I lusted …
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MediaWiki API, day 2
I've been slow to get to start work on the MediaWiki API. But today I took the first step, to find out that it is possible to turn off the API, and that the test wikis people have been kind enough to let me play with have it turned off. (It defaults on.) So to get started I'm going to need a wiki t …
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NewEgg is hard to get on the phone
I ordered a gadget from NewEgg on December 26, guaranteed 3 day UPS. Today's the day it's supposed to arrive, and I was totally looking forward, but UPS says: THE RECEIVER REQUESTED A HOLD FOR A FUTURE DELIVERY DATE. UPS WILL ATTEMPT DELIVERY ON DATE REQUESTED / DELIVERY RESCHEDULED[X]. That's reall …
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The First Church of Scoble
You can't be on Twitter or FriendFeed and not be inundated with comments from and about Scoble. I don't know how he does it, but it's really annoying. I find myself relaxing when he takes a break from Twitter, for example to fly from Europe to the US. Finally I can speak without having everything on …
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Happy New Year!
Good morning and welcome to 2009! Lots of housekeeping... Last night I saw Benjamin Button. Some people didn't like it, I can see not liking it, but I did like it myself. I'm a sucker for a love story. I empathize with Benjamin, he didn't fit in as a child, but he found people who appreciated him fo …
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MediaWiki has an API
I was talking with Doc Searls today, he's interested in using the OPML Editor to create and edit pages on a Berkman-hosted Media Wiki. I wondered if they have an API, and sure enough, they do. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API I have a couple of questions... 1. Has anyone done any coding to the A …
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San Francisco skyline
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