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Government 2.0: A Theory of Social Government

August 7 at 2:12 pm - Link

Oh, how much I dream to have what Dr. Drapeau conjures in this post... Government 2.0 is due, else we're doomed. - Eric Martindale

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Take a Google Reader Shared Item Viral Using Notes

August 5 at 9:27 am - Link

“Please participate in this Google Reader shared items experiment by sharing this item. Add your name to the path that brought the post to you. Path: 1) Louis Gray -> 2) Eric Martindale” - Eric Martindale

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phpBB & Blog & Choosing your moderators

July 21 at 8:42 pm - Link

Great post by the phpBB team about choosing moderators for your forums! - Eric Martindale

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Backstage at the MMA event | StarNewsOnline.com | Star-News | Wilmington, NC

July 21 at 11:44 am - Link

Star News Online calls my fight the most exciting fight of the night. I'm not sure I agree with the reporter, this one could have gone either way! Will put up one hell of a fight, and I had an absolute blast. I look forward to seeing him in the ring again. :) - Eric Martindale

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Babies

June 27 at 2:43 pm - Link

If only I could find a girl half as cool as Randall Munroe's. - Eric Martindale

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26 Tricks to Help You Tame Google Calendar

May 21 at 6:39 am - Link

"Not on single page like the rest of the web. Buried." - Eric Martindale

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Air-powered scooter

May 12 at 2:08 pm - Link

Wow, this is pretty cool! - Eric Martindale

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A Better Idea

May 12 at 11:01 am - Link

Wow. My high school had mandatory prom, actually. :[ - Eric Martindale

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MPAA Demands $15 Million from The Pirate Bay

May 9 at 6:34 am - Link

"Basically, the MPAA is testing the legal waters here. The Pirate Bay search engine probably indexes TONS more content that they could be all up-at-arms about, but their lawyers know better. They're going to try it small, at first, to see how TPB reacts." - Eric Martindale

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The Stats Are In: You're Just Skimming This Article

May 7 at 11:25 am - Link

This is so painfully true... but the article caught my eye. - Eric Martindale

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Compiz Fusion Truly Spherical Desktop View Arrives!

May 7 at 10:30 am - Link

"This is fail. SphereXP wins." - Eric Martindale

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Why Silicon Valley just won't shut up about FriendFeed [FriendFeed]

May 5 at 10:54 am - Link

Eric Martindale, Sally Church, Shawn Farner, Mitchell Tsai and 4 other people liked this

From post: "Is information overload really anything more than a self-inflicted disease of the Valley? I doubt it. But to the extent it is, Facebook is far better poised to solve the problem than a startup like FriendFeed." - Hutch Carpenter

Of course... I only saw this on FriendFeed because I unsubscribed from Valleywag. - Louis Gray

the problem for me is that I have way too many "friends" on Facebook that I don't care about... but I guess Facebook could somehow implement a compatibility rating or something to weight recommendations - Rex Pechler via Alert Thingy

the problem with the article is that in in the end, it is nothing more than a "Facebook is better than FriendFeed" article. The author brings up some good points, but in the end fails to recognize the conversation that happens on FriendFeed. You can do conversation on the items that Facebook lets you import. - Michael Koby

@Michael We'll see which is easier: Facebook to add FF-esque features, or for FF to attract enough users to make it the place everyone goes because everyone else is already there. - Jason Kaneshiro

Still needs more Web 3.0 - Eric Martindale

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“I've been watching my usage. In two months I've only used Outlook out of the entire Office Suite. Everything else? Moved onto online servcs.”

April 30 at 9:06 am - Link

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Online services work fine for mild usage. Like just having some slides, just having some numbers to crunch, some notes to take and format. Heavy usage? No way. I just spend a day in the trenches to work in Excel for SMO reporting - no way that can be done with online services. And even when the functionality ever arrives, the speed will be another issues. I am fine with offline apps for quite some more time. - Nicole Simon

agreed with Nicole - if you need a "big" doc, spreadsheet, or presentation, online apps don't cut it yet. - Jeremy Toeman

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So true, and even now I'm starting to move away from outlook. - Eric Martindale

interesting... for me it's the opposite unless I'm connecting to exchange I never use outlook but am not ready to push my office apps use online yet - Sean Reiser

that now explains alot about you, will have to do a lot of reconsidering here - David Blumenstein via twhirl

I'm exactly the same as Sean. Haven't used an offline app for personal email in ages, but only slowly moving to online apps for my personal docs. - Rubin Sfadj

I ditched Outlook some time ago when I moved over to Thunderbird and Sunbird. And then moved on to Google. I use online services a lot, up to a certain point, I agree with the others about at a certain point, they no longer cut it. But I use Open Office portable, running from an USB, so I'm semi-liberated there as well. :) - Sin Trenton

I mainly use outlook for calendar and contacts management as the other tools do no sync to my pdas. remember that if I am to travel to the US I do not have data access, so online solution does not cut it. as for mail - outlook is one backup, thunderbird a second, but i mainly use mail online. - Nicole Simon

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This is why i love LINUX

April 30 at 6:46 am - Link

"Would that be WiiNux?" - Eric Martindale

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Can Web Apps Get Too Drunk on Aggregation?

April 29 at 12:39 pm - Link

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Of course they can - but the cure-all is filtering and duplicate resolution. - Eric Martindale

Rafe Needleman posted a message on Twitter

“congested. getting spicy food.”

April 29 at 12:02 pm - Link

Haha, that's my solution, too... that and the endorphines help. :) - Eric Martindale

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http://www.copyblogger.com/affiliate-marketing-content/

April 29 at 12:25 pm - Link

Highlights some super strategies for building assets in affiliate marketing. - Eric Martindale

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Three Killer Content Strategies for Building Affiliate Marketing Assets | Copyblogger

April 29 at 12:25 pm - Link

Highlights some super strategies for building assets in affiliate marketing. - Eric Martindale

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Google, Microsoft Said To Be Preparing Bids For Digg

April 29 at 11:58 am - Link

Somehow this looks like Microsoft's death throes - clawing for Yahoo, itching for attention... - Eric Martindale

Bradley Horowitz posted a message on Twitter

“When using ;-) is permissible for the smile to close a parenthetical remark (like this ;-) ????”

April 29 at 8:30 am - Link

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only when you have a matching open smile (-: like this :-) - Jim Norris

Nice Jim, I hadn't realized I was using incorrect syntax all this time. - Chris White

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I think of it as like the "he/she" problem: a situation where nothing is quite right, so you backtrack and re-word to avoid the problem. Double chinned smileys (:-)) are kinda gross. - ⓞnor

I would not close the parentheses with a smilie, and then add a space or two after the smilie to avoid double-chinned ones. - possible248 via Alert Thingy

what if you're sad though? ):it may look silly:( or mad ):<now it just looks weird>:( but if you're evil then its ok (:<Iguess>:) ...via twhirl - Mike Lewis

I often use 'they' in place of he/she. I know there's some ambiguity about singular vs. plural, but it's usually resolved by context. I find it particularly confusing when someone uses 'she' generically because I end up re-reading the paragraph looking for the initial reference to a specific person when there isn't one. - Chris White

I use 'they' as well but I'm not proud of it and would like to avoid it. - ⓞnor

I avoid it altogether by substituting brackets for the outside parens [e.g. this ;)] - Mike Wescott

re: singular "they"-- it's totally acceptable! http://158.130.17.5/~myl/langu... - Shannon Jiménez

It's just so awkward... I avoid using smilies with that mark in them. :D instead... - Eric Martindale

Echoing @Mike Wescott... I have on occasion switched to the [bracket] parenthetical for this reason. - Hutch Carpenter

i usually switch to different brackets [like this :)] to include a smiley - Nicole Simon

i just learned about japanese smilies, emphasis on the eyes >_< or *_* parenthesis friendly. - paulm

I make my parenthetical as a bubble which contain my thinks ;o) .oO(I believe it's cute) - Olivier ze kat

Scott Beale published photos on Flickr

April 29 at 11:41 am - Link

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Haha, I totally saw that McCain billboard and laughed pretty hard. - Eric Martindale

Is that photoshop? ...via AlertThingy - Eric Ortega

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April 28 at 12:20 pm - Link

Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints. - Eric Martindale

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Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose. Art prints. - Eric Martindale

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April 25 at 10:40 am - Link

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April 25 at 10:40 am - Link

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1337! 5 Killer PC Games playable on Ubuntu: Hardy Heron

April 24 at 1:54 pm - Link

"However, WINE runs EVE Online for Windows just fine, at a higher FPS than Windows. You will need to move tahoma.ttf into WINE's C:/WINDOWS/FONTS directory, and bingo." - Eric Martindale

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Ubuntu Hardy Heron Released!

April 24 at 7:45 am - Link

"...so, how about for the next release, package manager distributes dist-upgrades via built-in torrent support?" - Eric Martindale

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Sun looks to open-source Java, have it ship with Linux

April 23 at 1:46 pm - Link

"What matters is the enduser experience. Consensus is that Java is too slow, regardless of how many systems you can run it on. It also doesn't work half the time." - Eric Martindale

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Sun looks to open-source Java, have it ship with Linux

April 23 at 11:47 am - Link

"I'm sorry, but what do we need Java for, again?" - Eric Martindale

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Hammers Eve: PvE fights

April 23 at 7:58 am - Link

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