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Yes, there is a 10K run, too. But I’m happy to get out and earn my Gary Larsen long-sleeved T-shirt at half the distance right now. Turned in an 18:53, for a 6:04 pace, which puts me 34th overall for the 5K, 28th male, and 7th male in the 30-39 age group. Official results came [...]

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My post expressing my personal feed preference hit on a quiet weekend in the tech world, clearly. I noticed the post was the lead on Memeorandum by early this morning, and it stayed there until just recently. (I’m not kidding myself… Scoble’s link is what pumped up the volume.)
People feel strongly about this issue, as [...]

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I’m amazed at the mild foolishness exhibited by a NY Times headline writer in this article: “Wishyouwerehere.com: Blogs From the Road.” That’s right, the headline writer put a URL in the headline, which leads to several problems.

The URL in the headline is nowhere in the article (either page). That’s appropriate (see #2), but confusing.
The URL [...]

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I use my RSS feeds as notification. I want to scan.
I want to somehow squeeze the juice out of a couple of hundred feeds, leave the pulp behind, and spend the real time on the six to nine posts a day which are worth three to five minutes each. Full-text can interrupt the scan. Even [...]

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At first glance, two posts on successive days from the smart folks at 37 Signals are in opposition.
First, there is “Do Fuss:”
Spend the time. Put forth the effort. Make it great.
(snip)
Well, if it’s just a little thing, then fixing it is just a small matter!
In other words, details matter and are worth the effort. I [...]

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Lots of family, in person, over the phone, and via iSight… whatever it takes. Plenty to be thankful for, starting right there.

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Jarhead on a Tuesday night a few weeks after its opening did not crowd a theater. Unlike many movies, I read at least two reviews ahead of time. The San Francisco Chronicle liked it. The Wall Street Journal (no free link) did not. I suppose I come down somewhere in the middle.
Actors are interesting, especially [...]

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The news is more than ten days old by now: TimesSelect Surpasses 270,000 Subscribers in Less Than Two Months is the November 9 press release. Various people have parsed this release for meaning, direction, and the future of all information. Personally, I find it most telling that TimesSelect is such a non-entity in my daily [...]

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Last night, Scoble noticed The Big Picture, a CNET News.com feature introduced with the redesign in early October. His brief post ends with
Easy to miss, too, cause it looked like an ad over on the right side of the page.
Damn!
Because The Big Picture is visual, instead of straight text, Scoble thought the visual tool was [...]

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According to the PVR blog, CNET video product reviews will be available via TiVo shortly. News to me, and nothing about it on either corporate web site, but seems like a great fit. Video on a computer is OK, and better than nothing, but video on a television sure makes a lot more sense. Sounds [...]

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