Twistori is a very interesting way to waste time and yet feel like you’re doing something significant. It follows the twitters of thousands of people whose messages start include the words I love I hate I think I believe I feel I wish Pure genius … and hard to keep your eyes off. What...
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I just spent 20 minutes prepping a no-longer-needed-textbook for sale. One of the places I thought I might sell it was Amazon Marketplace, only to be presented with this: Obviously, Amazon Marketplace is not looking for your average Craigslister, and probably not your media eBayer as well. Rather, they’re looking for bookstore owners, high-volume...
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In the extremely unlikely event that you or anyone you know might be looking for an educational technology textbook, I’m selling one. Educational Research: Competencies for Analysis and Applications is yours, all yours, for a steal: $10. Of course, I have almost zero eBay history, so you’d kinda have to trust me …
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Saw this today and kind of like it: In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally. From Paul Graham’s You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss.
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Scott Adams has a new Dilbert mashup on his main site, Dilbert.com. Very cool. The question posed is: are you funnier than Scott? You then get to change the punchline on the final pane of a Dilbert cartoon to something else … and people can vote on your version. Only problem: it didn’t work...
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Here’s a response I posted this morning on a Seeking Alpha story on Apple’s brand that seemed to imply it was all about marketing: “All Day Breakfast” hit the nail on the head. What people who don’t really understand branding don’t understand is that the best branding, the longest-lived branding, and the most financially...
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Check out http://scoblerizer.wordpress.com/ versus http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/. That’s Just another little reminder from the universe that URIs were never designed for humans. And that identify theft is all-too-easy online. It’s somewhat amusing … whoever started the scoble-like blog started blogging on April 13, 2006 with a classic “I’m blogging at last” post, and apparently ended that all-too-brief...
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Michael Port sent me a manuscript of his latest book, Beyond Booked Solid a couple of months ago. It’s the follow-up book to Book Yourself Solid. In spite of all good intentions, it sat on at table in my office for two months. I’ve just now started to crack it open and check it...
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If you’re writing an article about the aesthetics and usability of web typography, can I please suggest that you don’t have a page looking like this? (The suggestions in the post are pretty good, I have to say. But I’d prefer that the medium and the message aligned better.)
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OK, so I’m fully aware this is ridiculous and shameless self-promotion, but I’m doing it anyways. It’s been years and years since I’ve been on a hockey team. And years since I played hockey competitively. The years and years is due to a crazy schedule mixing together 3 kids, a spouse, a very demanding...
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Today I finished the last requirements for the current course in my master’s program: a 2-part, 4000-word paper. Phew! This semester has been a long, tough haul, with a lot of work for school, and a lot of work for work. I’m looking forward to breathing a bit this summer as I don’t have...
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Russell Beattie should stand up tall and proud. The Yahoo! alum gave up a secure job (well, sorta secure) and a steady paycheck to tread the uncertain waters of the startup life, and unfortunately was sucked down. He developed Mowser, a mobile web browser for small-screen mobile devices (OK, that’s a fancy phrase for...
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Please see the comment on this story from David Boone. This whole company appears to be a hoax – Gizmodo has the story. PsyStar Corp‘s new OpenMac is a game changer for Mac switchers. It’s not pretty, and it’s not small. But it is very, very cheap. Here’s the basic box. It’s available without any...
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Tara Hunt is organizing a barcamp focused on education this August in Vancouver. You should be there. I’m definitely going to try to be there. (It’ll be easier if they tell me ASAP when exactly when it’s going to be!) BTW, nice new site design, Tara.
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Seth Godin has a short post about how to sound smart (or not) when talking about techy stuff. A reader named Jackson chimed in with this: A blog is the whole, and a post is just one article (like the one you’re reading). So you don’t say, “I wrote a blog about that,” you...
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