Archive for February, 2008
How WordPress lets the world know you’ve posted.
When you set up a new WordPress-based Web log you’re asked if you’d like the world to know about it and this magic happens through Pingomatic. Click through to Options then the Writing tab in your WordPress admin interface it’s there at the bottom.But what exactly does that mean? Who’s coming to see my new [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2008 under It's technical.
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The thing about transatlantic first class.
Fly around the US for a bit and you get used to the act in the same way that your feet callus if your shoes rub you the wrong way. Flying used to be fun in the days of flap displays so maybe we should bring them back. These things could be related.
It’s no great [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2008 under Out and about.
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Ich bin ein Frankfurter.
Sometimes you gotta leave your zone of safety. You have to manufacture Inspirado. You gotta get out of the apartment.
Flying with a carrier you don’t normally fly with fulfills two of those three directives. Maybe that’s how you end up in row 43. The plane gets narrow, there are just a few more rows, and [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2008 under Out and about, Usability.
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Oh no, another gated community.
When you want to do big things in the social media space it’s tough to know what to do at this point in time. I think of this space much like the Web was in 1995. You knew you had to come up with some kind of Web strategy but, gosh darn it, what to [...]
Posted: February 14th, 2008 under Social Networking, Usability.
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We can all make it through this…
The upper echelons of North America’s business elite were in a panic yesterday. Instead of the usual chameleon trick of one eye on the BlackBerry and one the presentation they sat in meetings and had to perform perverse acts like paying attention to what was being said.
The BlackBerry network was down. Quel horreur!
So, what to [...]
Posted: February 12th, 2008 under Mobile.
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