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Contest: why does google hate me?

By alex | Published: 3/12/2004
Several weeks ago, I bought a google adword for myself. Why? Mostly just for fun, to play with the technology. It gives me some indication of how often I am “googled” and lets me cover the most frequent mis-spellings of my difficult name. Unfortunately, I am apparently not “Google material.” Just got this email: > […]
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Origin myths

By alex | Published: 3/9/2004
Joshua notes
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Walkthrough

By alex | Published: 2/18/2004
Lilia over at Mathemagenic writes about how MT (Typepad, actually), is more difficult than we seem to think. There is some irony that the power of weblogs comes with the ease they bring to publishing, and yet their complexity remains a major stumbling point (IMHO) to adoption. I ran into the same difficulty she had […]
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Best weblog definition so far

By alex | Published: 1/23/2004
I had a very earnest proto-journalist from the school paper come and interview me about weblogs today. Naturally, she asked what a weblog is. Unlike Liz & Danah, I don’t find this (or the subsequent question of what types there are) to be especially enthralling. Of course, there is the issue of working definitions for […]
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