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Update alert email vs rss
My email notification service is not very popular. I’m glad of that as many of you follow this blog using RSS (thanks for watching). I don’t think email is a good medium for blog updates. I want to quote skippy Email notification is not the best use of resources for most blogs. I wrote my…
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Silktide SiteScore and others
I’ve been trying to evaluate this website to clarify my view of what it actually provides. There were some interesting tools to help the technical side. Anybody know of others are out there? Update 6 October 2005 I am proud of the high sitescore I get on that site. It’s currently 8.4 out of 10…
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Growing a business
Mentors are wonderful things. Either casually of formally organised, getting another perspective from someone who has been there and done that is valuable. There is something to say for a mentor’s “larger business” perspective. Plus if your mentor has entrepreneurial experience it’s the best of both worlds. A mentor does not have to be an…
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Live 8 the African Reality
Lest this become a love in… I do have reservations about the ability of a rock concert to affect meaningful change in either the G8 or Africa. The G8 ministers have a fundamental belief in the superiority of western economic organisation. Anti-globalisation protesters don’t faze these guys. A billion rock concert eyeballs will get a…
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Live 8 Live Internet Radio
Of course I am getting extreme geeky right now. I’ve got the BBC’s feed of the London concert via WinAmp digital radio. So Annie Lennox is on BBC, Bryan Adam is on Fox 8 and Zucchero is on Fox+2 I’m getting tired. Given I’m on UTC+10h at the moment I’m hoping the Tokyo coverage will…
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Live 8 banner
There’s even a cool techorati banner for live bloggers. If you care please comment on any of the Live 8 posts and also add your name to the Live 8 List TO: The 8 most powerful leaders in the world 50,000 people are dying, needlessly, every day of extreme poverty. At this year’s G8 summit…
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Live 8 is on now
For those lucky enough to subscribe to Foxtel, Live 8 is on Fox 8 right now. Even better for digital subscribers it is on the timeshifted Fox 8 +2 as well. Thank god Molly Meldrum is finished for now. Does anybody in the key music demographic in Australia care bout Molly? Maybe their parents did……
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Rebranding Mandrake Linux
I’m not sure which is company is dumber, Mandrive Linux or King Features Syndicate. From wikipedia’s Mandrake Linux entry: In February 2004 MandrakeSoft lost a court case against Hearst Corporation, owners of King Features Syndicate. Hearst contends that MandrakeSoft is infringing upon King Features’ trademarked character Mandrake the Magician. The word Mandrake is not unique…
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Nasty Javascript loop
Today I also came across a nasty endless Javascript loop. This sucker can trap IE, Firefox and Opera in an endless loop requiring you to kill the application via task manager or kill the process if using one of the *nix. Javascript is really useful on the sites I regularly visit. But I’d like to…
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Abandon client services
After writing about Products or Services I can across Jeffrey Zeldman‘s Should you blog have a business When Coudal Partners, frustrated by the limited options available for custom CD and DVD packaging, solved their problem by inventing Jewelboxing, it occured to them that people who read their blog might like the product as well. They…