By Mark on May 16, 2008 in Featured, Geek Chic, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld | 1 Comment
I bought my camera from Amazon (a Canon SD900) years ago and when they launched the Eye-Fi based on my past buying preferences they sent me a special offer for the Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card. Otherwise I would never have found this very cool little device.
The Eye-Fi is a SD Card and Wi-Fi combo [...]
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By Mark on Mar 30, 2008 in Blogging, Featured, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source, Reviews | 9 Comments
I have been blogging for many years. During that time I have used many other platforms including hosted software from BlogCity. TypePad, and Blogger. I also used Moveable Type briefly and a highly customized version of Joomla! (before that MamboCMS). Last fall I switched to WordPress as my primary blog platform. Though I haven’t been [...]
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By Mark on Mar 7, 2008 in Blogging, Featured, LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Mozilla, Open Source, Social Media, Web Applications | 0 Comments
If you are a social media hound you probably have a Flickr Uploader, a web browser chock full of extensions, maybe a Twitter client like Twhirl, and a slew of other tools for interacting on the web. Maybe it’s time to consolidate all these tools into your web browser. That’s where Flock comes in it’s [...]
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By Mark on Jan 14, 2008 in Blogging | 2 Comments
Today was the first day of my ProBlogger community review, and it reminded of a quote attributed to former U.S. Chief Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
The context was probably that of freedom of expression but it works here too. [...]
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By Mark on Jan 14, 2008 in Blogging | 0 Comments
Today ProBlogger started a week long open critique of Socialized Software. I suppose for some it could generate the same type of angst as any other situation where you are the center of attention in front of a large crowd. I would use the time-honored trick of imagining the audience in their underwear but given [...]
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