Category Archives: English

May 1, 2007

Twitter Book Cover

May 1, 2007 — 06:01

Forthcoming?

No doubt, a river otter would be the perfect animal for the cover of a book on twitter in the O’Reilly series. Just look at that little hand, perfect for texting.

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Apr 25, 2007

Back from the annual spring mountain biking road trip

April 25, 2007 — 04:57

People in South Carolina and Florida probably thought we were out of our minds when we replied “mountain biking” after being asked why we were in South Carolina or Florida. The thing is though, that there’s awesome trails down there! Sure, no real mountains or anything like that but still…

Karin on Canopy Trail in Santos, [...]

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Apr 1, 2007

Gone fishing

April 1, 2007 — 04:43

For the second year in a row, Karin and I are heading to south for an easter mountain biking vacation. We haven’t quite decided where to go but North Carolina and Pisgah are definitely on the map – the trails there are awesome, some of the best in the country! Being in the blue ridge/smoky [...]

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Mar 18, 2007

tags in 2007, for the benefit of the long tail?

March 18, 2007 — 07:50

Tags are great, we all love tags! For one, they replaced the mentally taxing task of having to choose one and only one folder or category to put an item into. They also built upon the idea of folksonomy; that people over time will conform in terms of how they describe things because they both [...]

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Mar 15, 2007

viacom vs. we the people

March 15, 2007 — 01:49

Robert Scoble totally hits the nail on the head in replying to the question what happens after google loses? I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter very much how the court case is played out, both the new generation of media consumers/producers will be better off—period.
For this case and every case like it, more and more [...]

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Mar 14, 2007

links for 2007-03-14

March 14, 2007 — 08:26

SXSW: The Figures Behind The Top Web Apps (Sean Ammirati)
(tags: web2.0 money)

Hack MySQL :: Exploring the world’s most popular open source database
(tags: mysql database optimization reference)

Ajaxian » True Javascript Sockets?
(tags: ajax communication sockets)

twitterami.com – where the twitterAmI
twitter someone local to you
(tags: twitter maps mashup)

Web Typography Sucks | Slides and notes from SxSW 2007
Richard Rutter – [...]

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Mar 13, 2007

links for 2007-03-13

March 13, 2007 — 08:32

GeoTwitter:::Google Maps Twitter Mashup
(tags: twitter googlemaps mashup)

Jaiku | Stay Connected
(tags: mobile social web2.0)

No Margin For Error
“Why does my site look different in IE than in Firefox?”
(tags: css webdesign howto)

Whimsley: The Long Tail – Critical reader’s companion
(tags: thelongtail books review)

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Mar 12, 2007

Twitter Feeds support http if-modified-since

March 12, 2007 — 07:52

When looking at the twitter feeds today I noticed that they support http if-modified-since. Type in the following in your shell:

$ curl -z “20070312 00:00:00 CET”

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/663633.rss

and it returns:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<rss version=”2.0″>
<channel>
<title>Twitter / lemonad</title>
<link>http://twitter.com/lemonad</link>
<description>Twitter updates from lemonad</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<ttl>40</ttl>
<item>
<title>lemonad: This is a message</title>
<description>lemonad: This is a message</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
<guid>http://twitter.com/lemonad/statuses/6883771</guid>
<link>http://twitter.com/lemonad/statuses/6883771</link>
</item>
<item>
<title>lemonad: This is another message</title>
<description>lemonad: This is [...]

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Mar 12, 2007

Movable Type 3, MySQL and UTF-8

March 12, 2007 — 05:25

First off, if you’re about to convert a MT database from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8 or export and reimport an exported MT3 MySQL database — this information is probably for you.
With that said, Six Apart has supported UTF-8 in their blogging platform Movable Type for a long time so I’ve kind of taken it for granted [...]

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Apr 1, 2006

part 2: suggesting a new geotagging mechanism

April 1, 2006 — 21:05

In part one, I presented a sort of background for geotagging and left off with the argument that using what has become the de facto standard for geotagging individual photos and blog entries, is not only counterintuitive, but actually also breaking the conventions so far established for tags. Using the rel=”tag” for geotagging is creating [...]

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