Month: April 2007
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200th DNA exoneration tomorrow
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Today’s Chicago Tribune has a remarkable article about the exoneration of Jerry Miller. Miller, an Army veteran who’d never been convicted of a crime, was identified in a police line-up…
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Memo to Intuit PR
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Listening to this piece on NPR yesterday, I had one reaction to Intuit’s spokesperson’s claims that Intuit’s problem of handling tax filings on the evening of 4/17 was the fault,…
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Labour Government is listening
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Wow. It’s like Tony Blair is channeling Jeff Jarvis. [youtube tF_8MTxir-o] (hat tip Zack Exley)
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TPM goes backstage with Colbert Report
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It’s pretty cool to see a guy I’ve known for over a decade rise to the top of his game. Josh Marshall and I were competitors in the web design…
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Akismet hates me
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Akismet, the brilliant spam plugin that makes it possible to let people leave comments on a blog (in a year, it’s stopped more than 180,000 spam comments, or nearly 500…
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Blogrolls matter
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I haven’t had a blogroll on my site in years. Turns out that’s a mistake. I’ll be working on remedying that in the next few days…
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Recommended books
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A feature I had on the site about a year ago was the Now Reading plugin which gave me an easy way to use WordPress to manage the books I…
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Full vs. Partial Feeds
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I just wrote up a post I’m pretty proud of over at Burning Questions. It’s specifically about the full vs. partial feed debate, but from a different perspective than most…
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Elizabeth Edwards on today’s tragedy
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I’ve heard remarkable things about this woman, and these words only support them. What a gift for reocgnizing the grief, the sorrow, and the unthinkable traumas that the families, and…
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A TiVo innovation I’d love to see
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I was meeting with Ad Age editor Jonah Bloom last week, and threw out a suggestion that didn’t cause him to burst out into fits of laughter. Which tells me…