Month: August 2007
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Right to the heart of full-content RSS feeds
If you offer an RSS feed from your website or blog that isn’t the full content, here’s something for you to think about. Like many people, I’m an RSS creative-consumer. That means I read almost everything of interest to me…
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Become a cartoon with MSN
This is one of those delightful mashups of software, the web and imagination that doesn’t really have much obvious practical application but is great fun. MSN China is running the MSN China cartoon beta that will take any photo of…
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Maximizing junk mail from the receiver’s viewpoint
I got sixteen individual items of junk mail through my letterbox this morning. Home furnishings, credit card offers, pizza restaurants, insurance… it goes on and on. Much of it has the pseudo-personal approach of “specially delivered to you by hand,”…
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Fix for Windows Live Writer bug
My post the other day about Windows Live Writer attracted a notable comment from Shannon Whitley with the solution to a show-stopping bug in using this excellent offline blog editor with WordPress (and maybe other platforms, too). The bug in question arises if…
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The Second Life hype cycle
It seems that you can’t pick up a magazine or newspaper these days without seeing lengthy articles that focus on the negative side of Second Life. The latest comes from Time magazine in a feature last week. Reality is catching…