Monthly Archives: September 2004

E-commerce blogs… where art thou?

I’ve got a ‘slew’ of what I consider to be timely, accurate and insightful blogs and traditional media outlets for Search, RSS, consumer electronics and general technology blogs, but am still searching for e-commerce and social software/media sources. I came

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Search Engines and Active Listening

Search Engines that Talk Back (Jeremy Zawodny’s blog) Jeremy’s thoughts on search as a “skill” are interesting. His conclusion, based on his considerable knowledge, is that search shouldn’t have to be a ‘skill’; it should just work. This is an

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Scoble: How to get your blog discovered

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger Scoble has an excellent write-up on how to get your blog “discovered” by potential readers, fellow bloggers, et al. I’ve already been doing most everything that he recommends, save actually clicking through on my links to

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Rock the Vote — Online Voter Registration

Rock the Vote — Online Voter Registration Every time I’ve tried to use California’s state government site to find information on registering to vote (primaries, nationals, etc), I’ve ended up frustrated. Missing files, broken links, you name it. And so,

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Can your blog platform do this (w/o custom code)? Mine can’t…

I recently sent the following note to Blogger support: I have a blog that I currently publish to my domain (www.buzzhit.com) via Blogger. The main page is pushed as a child page of my domain (i.e., www.buzzhit.com/buzzblog.html). What I’d like

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Attending the next Kelsey Local Search conference, on a press pass

I attended The Kelsey Group’s DD:ILM (Drilling Down: Interactive Local Media) conference in Santa Clara, CA during my time with KRD, and was impressed with the caliber of the discussions (and therefore, the attendees). The show was sold out (and

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Google gets tough on credit card advertisers, holders

Hot on the heels of announcing that it was going to enforce tough new rules on credit card advertisers, a new report shows just how easy it is to use Google to find live credit card numbers. Surely I’m not

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Kudos to Blogger.com Support… really!

I recently wrote about my TypePad envy, relaying my latest Blogger tech challenge and TypePad feature envy. I’d simultaneously written to Blogger for a bit of assistance, and they delivered in spades today: “Looks like you’re using relative links to

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Scobleizer: What Woz learned from failure

Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger Scoble waxes poetic, and rightly so, about his interactions with Wozniak, and the great Woz’s perceptions of his own failures. My first computer experience was at the tender age of 9, back in ’81… on an

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T-Mobile’s Music Smartphone won’t kill the iPod

Gizmodo : T-Mobile’s SDA Music Smartphone Gizmodo reviews the new T-Mobile SDA Music Smartphone, praising its SD card slot and built-in music control buttons, and commenting: “Phones aren’t going to kill the iPod quite yet, but with a couple gig

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