Category: Technology
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The Content Compounds Long Before the Audience Does
Reaching 100,000 YouTube subscribers was gratifying, but the number is less interesting than what accumulated along the way. Years of specialist interviews taught me that the real value of sustained publishing is not individual content performance. It is building a coherent body of work that compounds.
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Etrawler Ltd owner of Car Trawler and Argus Carhire.com could learn a lot from Easycar!
The letter wants me to remove a comment by a user calling himself Timmythedog on my post about issues I had with car rental company Easycar. The comment says: You need to pick and choose – we’ve never had a problem with Easy Car but be aware of Argus Car hire and their supplier National…
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Testing QuickPress
You can now post quick blog posts from within the Dashboard of your WordPress 2.7 blog – (un)fortunately not restricted to 140 characters!
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Worldwide Telescope launches half-baked!
Microsoft launched their much-hyped WorldWide Telescope this morning. The application has a lot of promise as an educational tool, in that it can make astronomy fun and engaging. First off, there is no Mac version. Boo! For this reason alone, I should have just walked away. But I didn’t because it promised so much and…
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Circuit City needs to stop insulting customers
I’m in Las Vegas for the EnergyCamp conference. I had a couple of hours today so I decided to check out the local Electronics stores. When I went into the Circuit City store I was approached by a member of staff who informed me that I “needed to leave my rucksack with customer service near…
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Friendfeed now on Twhirl
Friendfeed is a very cool site which aggregates all your rss feeds onto one page. This is cool because I contribute to 6 blogs and numerous other sites (Ma.gnolia, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) often automatically without ever visiting the sites in question! Now I have one place to go to see everything I have published.…
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PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 14): 550 Email blocked by ORDB
My incoming email was unusually quiet yesterday morning. Great, I thought, I’ll get some work done! However, later in the morning I realised that anyone tryint to send me email was receiving the following error: PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 14): 550 Email blocked by ORDB – to unblock see http://www.example.com/ A quick chat with a…
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LCD TV sales surpass CRT for first time in Q4 07
I read a report this morning which said that in the fourth quarter of ’07, sales of LCD TV’s passed CRT for the first time: LCD TVs captured a 47% share of the global TV market, which reached 60.8 million units in the fourth quarter of the year. CRT TVs held a 46% share while…