Monthly Archives: October 2005

Unfairly flagged as spammer by Google

Posted on October 21, 2005 by Karl

I was afraid of this: Edward Biolodeau: …I’m abandoning my Blogger blog after anti-spam features Google added this morning flagged me as a spammer, destroyed data from two posts, and made it impossible for me to post. I was going … Continue reading →

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Dreamhost problems for Philly Future

Posted on October 20, 2005 by Karl

I hope it’s not a case of you get what you pay for (probably is – we shall see), but since migrating to Dreamhost, Philly Future has had some downtime. There was a hardware failure. A few reboots. In any … Continue reading →

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Web tech, citizen journalism, and more

Posted on October 18, 2005 by Karl

Sometimes information is all that stands between eating and starving (Philly Future). Must read: Dan Gillmor’s talk at the University of Michigan: Grassroots Media’s Potential: Better Journalism and Democracy. Labs Macromedia launches and gives a sneak peek at upcoming releases. … Continue reading →

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A fundraiser to get behind – Web 2.0 takes a hit – and Philadelphia loses one of its greats

Posted on October 17, 2005 by Karl

Project H.O.M.E.’s Inaugural Young Friends Event is October 27th, 2005 from 5:30-8pm. In order to raise awareness of Project H.O.M.E.’s efforts I decide to lay it on the line and share more of my personal history then ever before to … Continue reading →

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Friday Citizen Journalism, Web 2.0 bits, and getting overlooked where we shouldn’t

Posted on October 14, 2005 by Karl

I give our local main stream media some blogging tips at Philly Future, more important, I introduce a new section of particpation on the site – Breaking the Cycle. Anil Dash: “Web 2.0 is pretty much made of white people. … Continue reading →

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A Habit of Giving

Posted on October 12, 2005 by Karl

Shelley Powers: “we need to establish a habit of giving”: …No one is to ‘blame’ for being in the way of catastrophe, and as we know, any one of us could be the next victim. There are no safe spots … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Yahoo vs Google: Who’s been listening to customers?

Posted on October 11, 2005 by Karl

Moves these past few weeks by Yahoo! and Google are revealing. Google has launched, in beta, their RSS reader and reviews have not been good. Most have criticized it’s interface as being pretty, but complicated. I’ll add another critique: it’s … Continue reading →

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It’s a bubble – no it’s not – Monday morning bits

Posted on October 10, 2005 by Karl

The Register calls it “Bubble 2.0″, and Seth Finkelstein yells “Bubble, Bubble, Bubble”, but come on now – is it really? Bill Lazar nails why it’s not: “most of the comments I’m seeing appear to be missing a key difference … Continue reading →

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Some software I use

Posted on October 8, 2005 by Karl

A few folks have been asking me to share what software I use for different purposes lately. Just thought I’d share a small list here: jEdit – All purpose text editor. Especially for editing remote text files over FTP. Free … Continue reading →

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Friday morning web tech

Posted on October 7, 2005 by Karl

ConvergeSouth begins today. Of the three conferences taking place this week – this is the one I miss not going to the most. As Ed Cone says, not better, but different. Grassroots. Bottom up. I’m sure attendees will have a … Continue reading →

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