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Does anyone have any contact details for Vint Cerf? Vint is one of the pioneers of the Internet -he played a key role in leading the development of the TCP/IP protocols and in September, Google announced that it hired Cerf…
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Captcha's are lame
A captcha is an acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart – in other words a type of challenge-response test used to determine whether or not a computer user is human (or another computer).…
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Audacity stereo file exports to 11khz
For those of you who have been following my podcasts, you will be aware that I recently switched from recording landline to landline to recording Skype calls and the audio quality of the podcasts increased markedly – or so I…
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Salim Ismail interview podcast
Salim broke my head in this interview! This was one of the most informative podcast interviews I have yet done – Salim introduced me to the concepts of structured blogging, and the feed mesh. Structured blogging is a whole new…
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Some WordPress permalinks 404ing
I was having a strange issue recently on this blog – occassionally a blog post would 404 when the PermaLink was clicked on – the post would appear fine in the blog’s main page but any attempt to view it…
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Yahoo! buying Del.icio.us?
I have been hearing a rumour on the grapevine that Yahoo! may be buying Del.icio.us for between $30-$40 million. I’m not sure yet if this is more rumour-mongering – the same as the Riya-Google rumours of a few weeks ago…
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In the Guardian today
Thanks to Liam Morrison for alerting me to the fact that I was quoted in the Guardian today in an article about full or partial feeds. The quote is inocuous enough – it simply says: As tech blogger Tom Raftery…
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Salim Ismail interview coming up
I will be interviewing Salim Ismail, chairman & co-founder of PubSub in the next couple of days. Pubsub is a blog search engine or as Salim likes to say a “matching engine”. I was amazed to learn, from talking to…
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