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del.icio.us WebCites provides frequent, short notes on web articles about electronically mediated interaction, business implications, and enabling technologies. Under each note are links to relevant resources in the del.icio.us and technorati information services.

Don’t Forget to Plant It! » Tails Firefox Extension

This is a nice extension for showing microformats on a page.

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Bud posted this on May 15, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Marc Liyanage - Software - Mac OS X Packages - PHP

The latest PHP packages for Mac OS X. Very detailed instructions.

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Bud posted this on May 12, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

TypePad Hacks: How To: Create a Landing Page for Your TypePad Blog

Suggests how to use squidoo to start creating a landing page. I should use this at budgibson.com.

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Bud posted this on April 23, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

The Importance of Landing pages on Blogs: ProBlogger Blog Tips

How to coordinate all the information about you or your topic. This is like an aggregation page.

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Bud posted this on April 23, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Blog Tools: ProBlogger Blog Tips

Darren Rouse's listing of blog tools. Need to check out the email options.

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Bud posted this on April 23, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam « Akismet

An atni-SPAM tool that is getting a lot of press. Works based on a plug-in and a webservice. It uses social networks to identify SPAM.

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Bud posted this on April 22, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779

A list of all Morbus's tutorials on apache and osx

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Bud posted this on April 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

MacZealots > Tutorials > Installing Movable Type on Tiger

This article is written for installing Movable Type on “Tiger” (Mac OS X 10.4.x). The Panther and older OS X versions of this article, have been relocated to their own seperate, permanent pages.

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Bud posted this on April 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Neil's World - Running Movable Type on OS X with FastCGI

Notes on how to set up MT with FastCGI on your OS X box. Assumes you have set up MT to begin with.

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Bud posted this on April 19, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Akismet for Moveable Type

A good post on a Moveable Type anti-spam tool. I'll have to install it for MT 3.2 blogs.

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Bud posted this on April 16, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | 'I want to build something that grows'

An interview with Joshua Schachter, the creator of del.icio.us. He describes the service and why he did it.

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Bud posted this on January 29, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Mozilla, Microsoft Promote New Syndication Icon

A new syndication icon standard. Seems worth it to adopt. Used by both IE and Firefox.

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Bud posted this on January 24, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

MarketingSherpa.com : Practical News & Case Studies on Internet Advertising, Marketing & PR

Lots of stats on how industry intends to spend its marketing dollar. RSS and blogs are rising in awareness.

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Bud posted this on January 24, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Bud Gibson's site about blogging

reasonable blogging information

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Bud posted this on January 14, 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The MySpace Generation

Bolsters my perception that the world is becoming an online one. In essence, online is holding court with the real world.

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Bud posted this on December 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

How to build on bubble-up folksonomies... (plasticbag.org)

A nice practicum on using domain knowledge + user input to create business directed folksonomies. Suggests at the end of the post that knowledge workers are essentially going to become data analysts.

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Bud posted this on December 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists

A nice explanation of how to link together a bunch of terms using publicly available sources. Those guys at the BBC are doing a lot of great work here. The hack uses wikipedia and the yahoo (REST) API.

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Bud posted this on December 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Apple - Support - Downloads - Broadband Tuner 1.0

Fascinating, makes your broadband go faster. Assumes high capacity with high latency. I wonder how this impacts terminal applications vs things like web browsers.

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Bud posted this on November 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Jon Udell: Dueling simplicities

The key point here is the creation of a standard way to interact with a database using XML-based protocols. This has the potential to be really huge. We could do bit320 without the whole learning XSQL thing.

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Bud posted this on November 22, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

planetsony_usa

A nice visualization of how far the Sony DRM root kit has managed to spread in North America. It's even in Alaska.

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Bud posted this on November 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Slashdot | Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source

Paris is moving to open-source software a little faster than originally intended. As a part of the strategy to 'reduce its dependence on suppliers' they anticipate replacing both server and desktop applications with free and open-source software.

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Bud posted this on November 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit

"Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers,"

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Bud posted this on November 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Slashdot | Is Wi-Fi Ruining College?

"It seems a bit of a stretch to impute a causal relationship, but it's certainly possible that the kind of brain that can handle multiple channels of information is also the kind of brain that earns A's."

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Bud posted this on November 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Slashdot | Search Engine Results Relatively Fair

"The Economist and PhysicsWeb report on a study from Indiana University claiming that search engines have an egalitarian effect that gives new pages a greater chance to be discovered, compared to what would be the case in the absence of search engines."

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Bud posted this on November 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

A VC: Google Is Lame

But in many of their recent initiatives, Google has introduced a delay between submit and display. And that's just lame in this day and age of instant recall.

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Bud posted this on November 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

35 Million Consumers Used Web Search For Travel Planning in April 2005

In April, 35 million U.S. consumers used a search engine to initiate travel planning, and those who bought travel online ultimately spent an estimated $6.6 billion in the category during the eight week analysis period.

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Bud posted this on November 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

apophenia: justice, fairness, power and privilege

Actually a fairly thoughtful piece on how the cost of blogging is time, and time is the result of having liesure, often a side-effect of privilege.

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Bud posted this on November 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

HP Labs : Research: Information Dynamics Lab

A paper Jude found on tagging and mentioned by Liz Lawley at Corante SSA.

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Bud posted this on November 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

A VC: Sad iPod

More fuel to JB's anti-ipod fire.

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Bud posted this on November 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

I don’t just “use” the Internet, so why am I a user?

It’s because whenever I hear that term I always translate it to “slave generated content.” Here’s why: there’s a lot of companies who are expecting you to help out their business models

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Bud posted this on November 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)