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Last night, Mike asked how to redirect his existing feed subscribers to his FeedBurner feed. While directions for the generic process are here, here’s a simplified version for Movable Type users: Login to Movable Type, find your RSS template, change the “output file” to another filename, like index-feedburner.xml Click on “templates”, then “create new index…

Over at the Huffington Post, Harry Shearer posts this gem: Tuesday night, Larry King interviewed Bush 41 and Barbara Sr. And you know, tough as you might want to be during an interview, you still gotta take the opportunity to see if the interviewee might want to speak at a charity dinner you’re emceeing. That’s…

If you’re interested in meeting a group of local bloggers tonight in Naperville, swing by the Red Door Tavern tonight after 8pm. Hope to see you there! Update: Mike reports on the excitement for the night. As always, was a lot of fun catching up with the group. Mike also mentions a planned family get-together…

Ross Mayfield: “My grandpa taught me the difference between an entrepreneur and a businessman is the entrepreneur is in it for the quick flip, while a businessman makes a lasting contribution to the community.”

Eric Zorn: “The entire industry is no doubt watching this move closely and when it succeeds, look for stock tables to join ocean-liner schedules in the things-we-used-to-print file.”

Interesting article from Bruce MacEwen in Law Technology News about Milbank’s decision to outsource their word processing to Chennai, India. Milbank chose to work with OTH (a joint venture of Office Tiger, a 2500 employee company specializing in outsourced word processing and proofreading, and Hildebrandt, a well-known U.S. management consulting firm focused on the legal…

From Rafe Needleman: I keep a small blog, rafeneedleman.com. By small, I mean it doesn’t get a lot of traffic. Yet nearly every time I mention a startup company in it, I quickly get an e-mail from the CEO regarding the post. How is it possible that such a small blog can be so widely…

Zorn asks, and I deliver. The object of his blogging (and therefore indirectly my blogging), is Barabara’s blogging about Eric’s blogging: [Reading Zorn] can suck away your time, though, so watch out if you are on the clock at work and start reading Zorn. You mean I can’t get paid to blog about him blogging…

The #2 guy in the FBI at the time was Deep Throat. I never focused closely enough to play the guessing game, but this is obviously a big deal…

It was great fun catching up with Josh Marshall a couple weeks back in NYC; we’ve known each other for nearly ten years and over the past five years or so it’s really been incredible to watch his career trajectory. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Anyway, one of the things we talked about was…