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On Sunday, I earned my long-sleeved Gary Larsen T-shirt by running the annual Run to the Far Side road race in Golden Gate Park. Brisk, even chilly, for San Francisco, but no rain and the course runs three blocks from home, so the family came out to yell at/for me as I went by. This [...]

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One of the oddities for me in thinking about blogs is that there is rarely a sense of someone staying “on topic” in the sense of traditional publications. If you read the Wall Street Journal, you know what you’re going to get, and where you’re going to get it, often to the column on the [...]

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My Netflix queue is a jumble, and so I had a hard time remembering why I wanted to add The Sweet Smell of Success to my viewing list. Still, after a few weeks on the shelf, we watched it last weekend. I knew it was a “classic,” but black and white?! Anyway, the theme that [...]

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It’s boring to read a blog about the difficulty of managing a blog, so I’ll keep it brief. Two of my 10 (?) readers noticed the brief outage, but I’m glad to say things are fully back online, as I republished the entire site. That act cleaned up some macro errors along the way, although [...]

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The DNS change is active, at least from here. Setting up WordPress is going to take a bit longer than anticipated, though, so first I’m going to see if I can publish via Radio to the new server. If this works, I’ll republish the entire site (or try to) and then keep working on WP.

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Things may go off the air here in a bit… moving the DNS around. If things get weird, give me a try in 48 hours or so.

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This afternoon, CNET News.com introduced public TrackBack and Pingback support. I’m thrilled the team got this feature live, and I look forward to seeing how readers and the larger web community respond. I don’t know of any other major non-blog site that has adopted these emerging standards. Of course, it’s hard to be first at [...]

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Jeff Veen turns off the Dock notification in NetNewsWire to preserve his sanity and his time. Yes, the red numbers go away. Dave Winer says those of us who treat RSS like email are “using it the wrong way.” Apparently, treating the red numbers (a proxy for RSS) as boxes to check off bothers Dave. [...]

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So, Foreign Policy has a long, scholarly piece on the growing influence of bloggers. The authors are Daniel W. Drezner, assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago and Henry Farrell, assistant professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University and a member of the group blog www.crookedtimber.org. I’ve never [...]

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Great map of the media capital, New York City from the Publicity Club of New York. Interesting to see ZD Media make the cut, especially since CNET Networks has its New York office in the same building. I haven’t seen anything comparable for San Francisco. I wouldn’t pretend that media has that much impact on [...]

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