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  • You are what you feed

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    I’m at the Reuters and Attention Trust Open Data seminar/workshop today. Dick from feedburner is talking about how ‘subscribers are the new publishers.’ What I’m getting from his talk is that, as everyone uses lots of services, feeds, flickr, stumble, etc. that you don’t even have to be a blogger to be a publisher. A…

  • Buzz Metrics tool

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    They’re doing a demo now, looking for posts with Barack in them. Let’s see if this shows up. The tool is called “Floodgate” and it is doing real time scraping and monitoring of the net, watching tags, and showing a visual of what’s important now. powered by performancing firefox

  • Hey Verizon, what really needs repairing?

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    Gotta love Verizon. They want to make your phone service as easy as pie. 5 9s’ of reliability. And, frankly, since we moved into this house, no problems with the phones. Went to use it this morning, though, and there’s no dialtone. No problem. Open up the yellow pages (how old skool) and find the…

  • Mmm…cupcake

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    Mmm…cupcake Originally uploaded by HowardGr. a going-away cupcake from Mary for my last day at NYU.

  • Entourage, The Drama

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    Entourage – the drama Entourage is the name of a show on HBO, and also refers to “A group of attendants or associates; a retinue.” It’s also the rough “equivalent” of Outlook for the Macintosh, present in Office 2004 as well as some other, previous versions of the program. Well, my Entourage (not my show,…