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My presentation slides from Northern Voice 2008's Blogging 101
They're not terribly informative, intentionally. I got as far as "Podcasting" and ran out of time before getting to "The Future!", which was to plug some emerging technologies helping bloggers.
Christine was interested to hear me say that sending people away made them come back to your blog
I don't have any stats to back up the claim, but links are golden in blogs, and I wanted to make sure that new bloggers came away with the idea that it was normal to link to others.
Jeffrey Keefer comments on my Blogging 101 talk
He appreciated the one-word slides. I used them as reminders for myself and for terms the audience could look up to get more information.
Sameer Vasta is Easily Smitten
"I fall in love several times a day."
Should Lawrence Lessig run for Congress?
A resident of California's 12th responds.
John Munch strikes again!
He's everywhere!
7 Reasons To Love Prime Lenses
I got mine on the recommendation of Roland Tanglao. It wasn't the best $100 I spent, but it's up there.
Aaron Schmidt on the redesign of the Vancouver Public Library's website
"Someone made the decision to be literally user centered in this case, and it works. It illustrates that the library is full of people. It is social."
Christopher B. Leinberger asks if suburbia is becomming the next slum
The subprime-mortgage crisis along with people starting families later with fewer kids means that people are moving to urban, walkable neighbourhoods or at least desire to.
How to use Drush (command line Drupal) locally with on a Mac
For those of us who spend half the day on the command line and the other half working with Drupal. I have this setup now on my server.
Yacht Rock!
I spent entirely too much time watching every episode, all in a row. Smooth.
How to get the most out of BookMooch
Leonard Richardson on the economics of giving books away, and on James Ledbetter's experience with the website and book gifting market.
Russell Davies reviews a dog-eared uncorrected proof copy of Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
The book is subtitled The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. I think I'm largely already convinced of the book's apparent thesis, that large hierarchical organizations are stupider than small, flatter ones.
Stuff White People Like
It's true, it's true! We are so lame!
Mark Vallen finds Shepard Fairey's work apolitical and dehistoricized
Not to mention plagiarized from real art, the main thrust of the article.
"The Importance of Being Hated" by Chuck Klosterman
"Nemeses and archenemies are the catalysts for everything."
Lots of comments on how to kick the Coca-Cola habit
Long, long overdue for me. I'm embarrassed to admit I spend over $1,000 a year on the stuff.
Referential Integrity in MySQL
This gives me a slightly better understanding of foreign and primary keys. Referential integrity enforces relationships between tables, much of which is defined in code.
Hanyu Pinyin celebrates its 50th birthday
I found it coherent and useful when learning Mandarin, says the white guy who only knew English and French beforehand.
Embed Quicktime gives you code to create clickable thumbnails which lead to videos
With a WordPress plugin and Drupal module.
Sustainable Cities: A Strategy for a Post-Terrorized World
It appears that previous civilizations evolved laws and customs to ensure the continuity and thus the sustainability of their way of life. By law or by custom each local culture would evolve a system whereby economic, political and ecological balances were continually renegotiated as a precondition for the continuity of the local way of life. [...] In today’s political economy these preconditions and that collective genius are absent.
Christopher Leinberger describes drivable suburbanism and its alternative, walkable urbanism
He outlines ways to achieve this, suggesting that the government stop subsidizing the de facto policy and let the market give rise to walkability.

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