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Posterous does work, but lifestreaming has the pros and cons of raising a mongrel
Having now chased my first über-crossposted posterous-sourced entry across my little blogosphere, I note that I needed to look a little more closely at the tagging syntax, but overall I'm pleased to see the right bits plugging into the correct slots.
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Playing with my posterior - uh, I mean, my posterous
My aforementioned lifestreaming conversions are now more-or-less complete, and Posterous has won out as my main input to the whole morass, even though Sweetcron's inventor singing Sweetcron to the tune of Bravestar was adorable. We'll see how long this lasts.
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Lifestreaming
So I've been giving a lot of thought recently to the tangled web that has arisen from the organically trimmed aging world of my online presence. Blogging, microblogging, photo sharing, video sharing, comment posting, social networking, and all the other ways I appear here and there on the web have sharded across a couple dozen different services, ( Read more... ) -
Hang gliding
Down in North Carolina for a family reunion, a couple of miles south of Kitty Hawk, and on a whim yesterday I tried hang gliding for the first time ( Read more... ) -
Google Wave
They just finished the Thursday morning keynote here at the Google developer conference which was mainly the initial presentation of Google Wave, which is a well thought out communications engine. Think GMail + LJ/Blogger/Wordpress + IM + Subversion + Basecamp, all with Google Maps and YouTube and Flickr etc. all built in and lots of realtime ( Read more... ) -
Google I/O 2009
I'm out at the 2009 Google developer conference, and you can totally see the effect of Google's $1M+ per employee per year revenue. They have money to throw at the attendees, so they do so. And, honestly, they've done an amazing job making a conference that's aimed at software developers:- They assume that most people here have laptops and/or ( Read more... )
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You never call, you never write
So I just stopped by Quantum Books in Kendall Square, only to discover that it closed a year ago this week. I suspect this is just desserts for too much shopping at Amazon. Even Quantum's online shopping operation, which was supposed to continue functioning, is goneSo, (1) where does one now go to browse technical books in Cambridge, and (2) who ( Read more... ) -
Back from Montréal
Back from Montreal where aerynne, alethia_juturna and I visited waylay (with a nod to a completely insane travel schedule on alethia_juturna's part, but what else is new?) We saw Spirit of the West open for Great Big Sea, with the highlight being the two bands on stage at the same time, including a performance of "Political" where GBS's Alan and SOTW's John alternated singing the leads on ( Read more... ) -
Skin of Evil
The U.S. government continues to wrestle with the idea of setting up a "Bad Bank" -- a place to put all the evil "toxic" crap that banks have amassed over the last few years, thereby leaving what remains of the titans of the financial sector clean, unsullied, and ready to do business. Sweet, sweet business ( Read more... )
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