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The Happiest Moment in the RSS and Reader Marriage is in the Engagement
Over the weekend there was a huge buzz over new RSS subscriber numbers that Feedburner was reporting due to a change in how Google Reader was reporting their stats. The bounce was reported as high as 250% by bloggers like Jeremy Shoemaker to more average bounces of around 30% by bloggers like Stowe Boyd. My…
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Second Life Encounters
It’s freaky when you login to Second Life for the first time (Evar!) and within 5 minutes, a reader can ID you. Five minutes and I’m greeted with “Blogger, Baltimore, SXSW… you must be Technosailor?” Insanity. Thanks, Sean for IDing me and giving me a laugh.
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Ensuring Proper Search Indexing
This problem has been known for awhile, but I’ve never done a whole lot to resolve the issue with this site. The problem is that search engines such as Google see URLs with www differently than non-www version. It’s called canonicalization. Based on this entry on SEOMoz and this nifty rewrite rule generator at 14thc,…
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Applescripting Technorati and Skype
I’ve been watching my Technorati ranking over the past few weeks and I’m happy to say it’s been climbing. In other news, I’ve been wanting to learn Applescripting. So, I put the two things together this evening and came up with my first practical AppleScript. The script does one thing. It queries Technorati for my…
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Welcome to Thunderdome: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs on stage at the D Conference
When I read that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were going to be on stage together doing joint appearance at D:All Things Digital, the Mad Max movie came to mind. My mind kept echoing….”Two men enter. One man leaves. Two men enter. One man leaves.” Unrehearsed and unscripted? This is rare and should be a…
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As an entrepreneur, "NO" from a VC is a good thing
In the blogosphere, there is some buzz as to why VC’s don’t say no. There has been early writing on this topic, but Stu Phillips of Ridgelift Ventures and his entry, Getting to NO!, is getting a lot of buzz. I would like to add the entrepreneur’s perspective on the conversation. In my experience, the…
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Upgrading Ruby on Redhat EL4 for Ruby on Rails Development
We don’t typically use Ruby on Rails in house. Up until recently, I was the dev guy as well as the server guy, the support guy and all the other hats I wear. Since I don’t do Rails development, there was no reason to get it setup. Recently, with the addition of Gary to the…
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XM and Sirius to Merge
From the WTF department, this news about the only two major satellite radio service providers in the U.S. merging. One has to ask, how will this pass the anti-trust sniff test?
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How to Enhance your Blog's SEO and Attract Relevant Traffic in One Easy Step
The constant war to optimize a blog for traffic and gain new visitors is one that any serious blogger understands. I’m about to tell you a trick that I’ve been experimenting with for the past month and have seen pretty good results from. So listen up. One of the rules of SEO is to keep…
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The Wire
Am I the only one who thinks The Wire is the best frikkin show ever created? Finished Season 2 last night…