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Why moblogging sucks

“Moblogging sucks” returns no hits on Google yet, much to my dismay. This entry is long in coming, but the result of a number of things I’ve read recently, an entry by Jia most immediately. Jia writes of Cecily from The Importance of Being Earnest as the prototypical, self-involved, obsessed blogger. I think, in many […]
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Blog Conference

I’d like to bring a conference to you knowledge and ask you for your possible participation. BlogTalk – A European Weblog Conference: Web-based publishing, communication and collaboration tools for professional and private use. http://blogtalk.net – the Conference will be held in Vienna, Austria May 23-24 2003
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Moveable Type Karma

So, I needed a discussion board for my law class. I wanted a karma system, but I like the way Moveable Type works. Since it is a static system, I couldn’t effectively do a “plug-in,” something else had to happen. So, I wrote a karma “plug-out,” a script in Python that interfaces through links back […]
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WNY Small Worlds

Everyone seems to assume that new technologies tend to decenter and diversify social ties. I think the best example of this is the degree of contact undergraduates have with their parents these days, even when they are “away” from home for school. But it also seems to tie together people in the “medium range”–what once […]
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