Get out that iTunes gift card, Pitchfork has selected their top picks for 2008. I just found Flying Lotus, which is spectacular for background music while working. The future of hip-hop some call it. FL is related to Alice Coletrane.
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Good TechCrunch overview of how Google and Facebook may win the Comment Wars. This upsets me on several levels. If we had a decent centralized comment management system I could easily link to the comments I’ve left at Disqus, TC and other places. Someday this will be possible. For now, we wait for FB and Google to grow up and make nice.
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VentureBeat says that Twitter has made Dell $1 million in revenue.
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) says Twitter has produced $1 million in revenue over the past year and a half through sale alerts. People who sign up to follow Dell on Twitter receive messages when discounted products are available the company’s Home Outlet Store. They can click over to purchase the product or forward the information to others.
I think corporate accounts will pay for millions of free users, along with the usual ads thrown in once they figure that out. Targeted ads should be pretty straightward to implement.
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I just left a comment on TechCrunch after signing in via Facebook. Very cool, although I have to go check the FB privacy settings to make sure TC doesn’t spam my wall. I’m installing Google FriendConnect on one of my other blogs today to see how that works.
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Longtime readers know that I love to fish and have posted photos here of some fairly large striped bass I’ve caught over the years. My friend James “Stickman” Waldron spent the last few years putting together a documentary about Plum Island fishing, where I do most of my striped bass fishing. The video is in high-def and features some great footage, new and old, of fishermen hooking up with some amazing fish, and sharing great stories about one of the best bass fishing spots in the world.
Reel People: Fishermen of Plum Island is now for sale. As a bonus, yours truly is featured on the cover. If love striped bass or know someone who does, this is a great holiday gift.
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Too lazy to come up with your own status updates? Try Generatus.
Wonder why nobody is visiting your site? Usertesting.com.
Upgraded blog to Thesis theme.
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Get Thesis, and quit fighting battles that are already won!
Amazing underground cavern Stockholm Data Center.
For years now, blog comments have been treated like second-rate citizens. I was an early user of SezWho on TheProgressBar, then moved to Disqus, and back in the day played around with CoComment. All of these systems are ok in one way or another, but they also have their faults.
Recently I read about Reblogging on Disqus.
Now on comments throughout DISQUS, you can find a reblog link where you can publish a quotation of the comment to your blog. This quote is cited with the original author, the blog where it originally appeared, and a link back to the original comment to give the discussion full context.
Take a look at BackType, which aggregates comments from blogs and makes them searchable.
Via TechCrunch.
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I’ll be at Vox at 7pm tonight for the Shel Holtz tweetup. Haven’t seen my social media peeps in a while.
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I turned 40 today. It’s been quiet around here, most of the blogging has been over at OnlineDatingPost.com, where I’m helping several anti-fraud companies partner with social networks and dating sites. I’m still doing some social media consulting, waiting for clients to deploy some of the services we developed.
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Anyone who has lived around Boston will enjoy this video of Ollie Smoot, the MIT student who’s height was used years ago to measure the length of the Mass Ave Bridge- 364.4 Smoots and one ear, which converts to 2,164.8 feet. Story at Boston.com.
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James Nachtwey, who’s War Photographer documentary I absolutely loved, is breaking a story on October 3 and has asked people to add a widget to their blog to promote the story. The link the widget in this post points to will change on the third to reveal the true story.
James Nachtwey is preparing to reveal his photographs, which highlight a shocking and underreported global crisis. Over the past 18 months, the TED community have been working with James to gain access to locations he wished to photograph, and to prepare spectacular plans for unveiling these pictures.
I cannot wait to see what this is!
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