Monthly Archives: October 2005

Mass transit on strike in Philadelphia

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Karl

A bad, bad day in Philadelphia. SEPTA is on strike, stranding thousands of those who can’t afford it. And the Eagles lose. And lose ugly. Much more at Philly.com. It’s a shame after it comes after such a great meetup … Continue reading →

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See you tomorrow

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Karl

Scott at Philly Future: October Philly Bloggers’ Meetup this Saturday: This month’s very spooky Philly bloggers’ meetup is taking place this Saturday, October 29, 2005 at 3:00 PM. It should be a spooktacularly good time with other local influencers (as … Continue reading →

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The Young Friends Came Out in Droves

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Karl

Howard at Philly Future:: Well, Project H.O.M.E.‘s inaugural Young Friends Event appears to have been a smashing success, going off last night without a hitch. For those who missed it, there are photos, as our resident shutterbug Albert Yee was … Continue reading →

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TONIGHT: The Project H.O.M.E. Young Friends Event and Wal-Mart

Posted on October 27, 2005 by Karl

In light of yesterday’s article at the NYTimes, maybe some will have a new appreciation of this. The article summarizes a memo (downloadable here pdf) in which Wal-Mart’s board of directors propose ways to hold down spending on health care … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Shelley Powers

Posted on October 26, 2005 by Karl

Congratulations to Shelley Powers who has take an position with Broadband Mechanics!

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In Memorium: Rosa Parks

Posted on October 25, 2005 by Karl

The Tattered Coat: I was going to write a bland platitude such as “Rosa Parks has passed away, but her legacy will live on.” But the truth is that her legacy will not live on by itself. The battle for … Continue reading →

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PC Magazine rates sharing and tagging services (participatory bookmark managers)

Posted on October 24, 2005 by Karl

I forgot about PCMag’s review of a number of these services earlier today. Curiously they miss RawSugar and Furl, slam del.icio.us (which misses the strength of community point I made earlier), and mistakenly say you need Yahoo!’s toolbar to use … Continue reading →

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Participatory bookmark managers

Posted on October 24, 2005 by Karl

Furl, one of the first participatory bookmark managers, launched a while back, had some hype, got bought by LookSmart, and disappeared from the radar of the digerati. I’m now using three different bookmark services – and following the community of … Continue reading →

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Getting Unbanned by Google

Posted on October 23, 2005 by Karl

For a long time phillyfuture.org was blacklisted by Google – a previous owner of the domain abused it and Google reacted by banning it from the index. For months, after getting the domain back, I attempted to get Philly Future … Continue reading →

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Dreamhost update

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Karl

Performance and uptime have improved considerably in a day. Dreamhost contacted me and informed they have solved a database issue that was the cause (they did not say what). Today has been smooth sailing. Keeping my fingers crossed.

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