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Jul 2, 2008 8:32pm

Meet Scott Dietzen, the New Guy at Yahoo in Charge of Flickr

The new guy in charge of Flickr uses SmugMug instead of Flickr for his own photos.
Jul 2, 2008 12:44pm

Friends of Mac

Carl H. Lindner Jr. is a businessman who recently co-hosted a big dollar fundraiser for John McCain. He also oversaw the payment of about $1.7 million to a terrorist organization. But that’s okay…
Jul 2, 2008 11:38am

Current iPhones Keep Cheaper Plan on Reactivation

You won’t pay a 3G rate for a 2G iPhone with a new service plan, AT&T confirmed for me today. This should be good news to anyone looking to either sell their so-called 2G iPhone when they upgrade to…
Jul 1, 2008 9:20pm

Who Is Barack Obama?

Continuing with my Shelby Steele blogging, he went into what I thought was a really unfair attack on Barack Obama, drawing an invidious comparison between Obama and John McCain and Hillary Clinton…
Jul 1, 2008 8:02pm

13 FriendFeed Tools for Twitter Refugees

Shared by Jesse Stay
It should be noted that Gridjit added friendfeed support when a removal of a single function without notice in Twitter’s API made them completely inoperable as a company.

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Jul 1, 2008 8:02pm

Youtube: Johnny Clegg & Joan Baez - Asimbonanga 46664 London 2008

Johnny Clegg & Joan Baez - Asimbonanga 2008
46664 Nelson Mandela Birthday Party
27. Juni 2008 Hyde Park London, GB
with the Soweto Gospel Choir

Part 2/2
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The concert…
Jul 1, 2008 8:02pm

Weblog Tools Collection: What You Need To Know About WordPress 2.6

WordPress 2.5 was just released a few months ago and WordPress 2.6 has been in development for some time to be released very soon. Not only does WordPress 2.6 add more zing to a platform that has…
Jul 1, 2008 8:02pm

The Importance of ‘Pause Points’ On Your Blog

Over the last week I’ve run some Crazy Egg heat map tracking on two posts on Digital Photography School (both of which got to the front page of Digg and got a lot of traffic) that both highlight…
Jul 1, 2008 8:02pm

tP Poll: Does a Connected World Need a Connected POTUS?

Republican presidential candidate John McCain recently attracted a good amount of ire from geeks for tagging himself computer “illiterate.” And when a McCain campaign advisor described his…
Jul 1, 2008 8:02pm

Twitter Fail whale... a 3D sculpture from the MAKE Flickr photo pool

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MAKE Flickr photo pool member Hil writes -

[Here’s] A little kinetic sculpture of the lovely Twitter Failwhale, based on the image by Yiying Lu that is used when Twitter.com is…
Jul 1, 2008 8:02pm

FriendFeed spices up its iPhone interface, integration with Mail2FF begins

Shared by Jesse Stay
This is powerful. The mail option was available before, but not easily accessible. I was trying to figure out how to do this when Scoble and I were out together and he pointed…
Jul 1, 2008 12:31pm

Iran-Contra’s Lost Chapter

A little history lesson for us with short attention spans…

As historians ponder George W. Bush’s disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could…
Jul 1, 2008 12:31pm

Cleaning Up After the Worst Presidency in History

If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal…
Jul 1, 2008 12:31pm

Using the Web to Join the Attack

Proving yet again that 2008 is much different than previous elections years.1

But in the 2008 race, the first in which campaigns are feeling the full force of the changes wrought by the Web,…
Jun 30, 2008 10:54pm

Youtube: Johnny Clegg & Joan Baez - Asimbonanga 46664 London 2008

Johnny Clegg & Joan Baez - Asimbonanga 2008
46664 Nelson Mandela Birthday Party
27. Juni 2008 Hyde Park London, GB
with the Soweto Gospel Choir

Part 2/2
(a little async)



The…
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