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I want my blog to be the aggregator

by Mathew on March 30, 2008 · View Comments

Loic LeMeur of Seesmic has a blog post that echoes something I’ve been saying for awhile: having cool services like FriendFeed or Twitter or Flickr or even Facebook is great, and they all serve a specific purpose and have a certain value — but it’s hard to keep track of what is where, and which [...]

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Is embedding better than quoting?

by Mathew on March 17, 2008 · View Comments

Anil Dash of Six Apart has an interesting post up in which he proposes that instead of simply linking to or quoting from blog posts, bloggers could actually embed a segment of the post they are citing — in much the same way that people embed YouTube videos etc. by inserting some Javascript. I’ve included [...]

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Blog forecast: Posting will be light

by Mathew on March 1, 2008 · View Comments

Just a quick note to let any regular readers know that blog posts could be intermittent over the next little while, as I am on the road for the next couple of days — and following that I will be doing my best to take time away from the computer (I’m told it can be [...]

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Mom reviews Gawker, finds it wanting

by Mathew on February 27, 2008 · View Comments

Not my mother, of course — a freelance writer who was approached about a writing job at the flagship blog in Nick Denton’s sarcastic and bitchy media empire. He mentioned it to his mother, who summed up the site far better than I’ve seen anyone else do, despite plenty of effort: “Well, I had more [...]

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Taking notes online: Still looking

by Mathew on February 23, 2008 · View Comments

I must have missed this the other day, but apparently Evernote — the note-taking desktop software app — has launched an online version as an invitation-only beta. I wish I had been more on the ball, because TechCrunch had a bunch of invites, but of course they were probably gone in a matter of minutes. [...]

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