How to facilitate great conversations on your blog.
The essence of good conversation is give and take. The problem blog-based “conversations” is that the essential give and take […]
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Star dot-com analyst recants.
Technologists think their business is the creation of cool technologies, because they are engineers who thrill to the idea of
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AT&T leaks sensitive info in NSA suit
D’oh! AT&T lawyers accidentally leak sensitive info in NSA suit
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Google’s embarrassing mistake.
I think it’s time we all agreed that the “nofollow” tag has been a complete failure. For those of you
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Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler.
The premise of Kindred is that Dana, an African-American woman living in the late 1970s, is suddenly transported back in
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10,000 digital sheep.
Best application for MTurk I’ve seen yet: Someone asked people to “draw a sheep facing left.” Compensation per sheep: $0.02.
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Technorati blues.
Don’t even get me started on Technorati. The endless waiting while their servers churn along. The unpredictable outages. The bizarre
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Competitive Enterprise Institute
Priceless: “Carbon dioxide. They call it pollution. We call it life.” Competitive Enterprise Institute
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The naked guy is dead.
This is just too sad for words: Former Berkeley student known as “Naked Guy” dies in jail (via hudin.com)
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Shuffle puzzle.
You’d think the iPod Shuffle would work just like any other iPod. But there are some inexplicable differences. For instance,