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Issues that matter

By alex | Published: 7/30/2005
A friend emailed me indicating that he and others are trying to googlebomb the phrase issues that matter to tie it back to the September Project. I’m pretty ambivalent about googlebombing as a rule, but the Project is a worthwhile one, and I suppose what little Googlejuice I have is better spent on good spamdexing […]
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Afternoon distractions

By alex | Published: 7/28/2005
Some entertaining distractions: * Installing democracy in the Middle East * Quicktime animation of “le building,” an entertaining Rubist short. * Why is it that my students never break into song in my classes? * A Japanese attempt to take over the world by giving them all repetitive stress injuries. (If not obvious, the object […]
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Faking a podcast

By alex | Published: 7/24/2005
Talkr lets you podcast without actually recording anything. It takes one of your existing feeds and uses text-to-speech to create a version of the RSS feed with Audio enclosures. Here is mine. I’m not a big fan of text-to-speech, but this is actually pretty listenable. Heck, they even get my name right.
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Remaindered Links

By alex | Published: 7/13/2005
Another installment of a bunch-a-links that would have made too-short blog entries: * Fascinating interview with the maker of Mad Hot Ballroom. Copyright clearances made up nearly half the cost of the film. * Enlisting the power of the interweb to find an apartment in Greenpoint. Need to do something, since NYC is the 13th […]
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