on blogging
Apr. 26th, 2006 | 09:59 am
Last week, the experiment backfired for The Los Angeles Times. The newspaper suspended the blog of one of its columnists after it was revealed that he had posted comments on the paper’s Web site and elsewhere on the Web under false names.
on salon/npra story about a blogger that quit blogging after 5 yrs.
my take: i think anonymity is cool and posting under false names is ok, so there jeff jarvis, i'm watching tv5monde-asia. so i'll put this out there and the sirens will be here in a few minutes, blogging is a conspiracy foisted on younger writers by the older establishment to sap our energies and give them the big bucks from novelising for a few more years. it's obvious, just like medical school admissions, writers are trying to limit competition by distracting us into these non-monetized realms, i don't even know how to check the revenue i must be getting from all the ads on this site, today i'm rocking phoenix again, i'm sure it's a RAM issue on this Lombard, can't be that Qumana is just slow, they still haven't contacted me to give me my vacation, anyway the French tv is some documentary about African immigrants in France. beats the Clint East Wood is a British spy in Nazi Germany flick on TCM. enjoyed the insight on MySpace that Ben Champion's writing in instantly copywritten under Oklahoma law since it is handwritten. He never told me that.
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the academy
Apr. 16th, 2006 | 08:37 am
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sketchy xml-rpc uploads
Apr. 13th, 2006 | 08:35 am
wow, my pesach post took me so long with all those links and research and all that went into it, just 2 days left, apple is slipping, i guess alot of people are following the apple vs. apple court case and expecting a losing judegement after Easter, maybe not alot of people, but it's the mutual funds that are more equal that others, right?� so i'm glad to be all cash right now.� got this nice response from qumana
4) There is sometimes a problem selecting text on OSX where you select it but
it doesn't get highlighted. I understand how inconvenient this is and I hope
to have it fixed soon.
Thanks,
Ianiv
so that's cool now I just select the text without seeing that it's higlighted and shift+openapple+l to make a link.� Hey, where'd my closed apple key go?,� seems like the apple extended keyboard I used with my 9500/g4/450 still had a little bitty closed apple key somewhere.� i thought of a great extension, you know the right click furl this or del.icio.us tag this page, how about select some text, and it will yahoo! or google it. right so why do i use yahoo! well the search box on firefox google plugin doesn't seem to work in china or with my isp
or ???� so any ideas, because I love my search box for technorati and torrentreactor and amazon, but I would prefer to use google, not yahoo! ok that's 50 , stop.Tags: firefox, extensions, plugins, osX, blogging, tools, 9500, lombard, open apple, closed apple, apple vs. apple, lawsuit, aapl, stock, stocks, QAAGN, options, itunes
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My blogging landscape
Apr. 10th, 2006 | 05:45 pm
- http://www.livejournal.com/ This is the host for my blog, it has its limitations for free accounts, but it got me started writing. In particular I am limited in the ways that I can change the look of my blog, like I can't add any static links in my left navigation column or a rss of my del.icio.us links.
- http://www.geocities.com I've been with geocities since 1996, before the dot.com bubble burst. It's free hosting. That's where I stick a simple frame page that I sometimes point people to instead of the blog. http://www.geocities.com/paynito/ It seems that they've removed ftp access from free accounts, I used to use it for file storage and transfer between computers. Of course now we have easier tools like a 1 gig sd card and
- File Storage: http://briefcase.yahoo.com and I love the gspace firefox extension that makes it easy to use your gmail account for file storage. Just stick that on the computers you use regularly.
- Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger, right? I don't live in the us so I miss out on alot of corporate propaganda that might remind me of my operating system's pet name. But I don't enjoy working on my win2k office machine near as much. I love exposé and that I can type "optione+e" to make a é, and can type ñ and ó. I have no idea other than that the alt key and some numbers are involved how to do this on windows, is it keycaps? My mother toungue is Spanglish, so these letters are important. Apple must understand since they live in California. When I stick my mouse to the top right corner of the desktop I can see all the windows I have open, it's faster than alt+tab, really.
- firefox it definitely deserves its own bullet point. Flock got me started blogging, but I quickly came back to firefox. It's the best. camino is cute, but I love the firefox extensions.
- del.icio.us I've got 435 bookmarks on del.icio.us right now. I would have gone crazy sticking those into folders in my bookmarks menu. I can bookmark anything that I ever think I might want to read or reference again. This is the can't miss part of web 2.0 for me. Oh, yeah, I can access my bookmarks from any computer anytime.
- Photos. Loved flickr, but kind of only your most recent 200 photos are easily available on the free account, so now I'm using zooomr^3. Both services have desktop applications that make it fast and easy to upload my photos, I can upload to flickr from inside iphoto. Much better than Yahoo! Photos. So after the upload is done I can view the pic and stick it into livejournal, with Qumana this step is also drag and drop.
- Writing the blog entries. Today I'm using Qumana. I also use pocketlj on my palm Tungsten E and Phoenix 1.9.4 OSX on my lombard. I have used avantblog for my blogspot page, but blogspot is mostly blocked in China.
- To high to get over it yeah, yeah. The great firewall of china is penetrable using proxys from http://www.peacefire.org/. So that's how I can see seditious sites like blogspot or the electronic freedom foundation, it might actually have been the eff's blogger's guide that turned me on to the proxy.
- Isnip, this is a multi-clip clipboard for OSX so I can get several links at once from firefox to stick into my blogpost instead of one at a time.

- ok, that's my blogging landscape. I was going to say stuff about cultural geography and not speaking the local languange so well and self expression or other such stuff. I hope I can win the contest. I'm still a ways away from 20 entries, but Qumana really is powerul and a joy to use.
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