Monthly Archives: December 2005

Lists, Predictions, Reviews Part 1

Posted on December 27, 2005 by Karl

stormtrack: The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 Yahoo!: Year in Review 2005 Yahoo!: 2005 Top Searches Shelley Powers: Year in Pictures Philly Future: thebmrant: Matt’s Favorite 20 Albums of 2005 (and some I hated) Philly Future: Blackmail Is My Life: … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2005 by Karl

It’s 12:04 AM now. The start of a new day. My brother Dante’s family has just left, along with my brother Steve, after a great dinner that Richelle put together. I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep and waking … Continue reading →

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Projects right up to Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2005 by Karl

Very, very, very busy at work. Apologies for missing emails and disappearing. Flash can be fun. And powerful. That’s all I’m saying. You know the drill.

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Congratulations to Dan Gillmor

Posted on December 22, 2005 by Karl

I want to offer my heartfelt congratulations to Dan Gillmor, who has announced his upcoming launch of the Center for Citizen Media, a nonprofit whose goals are to “study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a … Continue reading →

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The people have spoken?

Posted on December 21, 2005 by Karl

First, here at home: The New York Times publishes an editorial on Diebold and The Business of Voting: Paper trails are important, but they are no substitute for voting machine manufacturers of unquestioned integrity. Diebold is inching ever closer to … Continue reading →

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Fan created guitar tablature – illegal?!?!?!

Posted on December 19, 2005 by Karl

A friend at work sent this along over the weekend: BBC: Song sites face legal crackdown: The US Music Publishers’ Association (MPA), which represents sheet music companies, will launch its first campaign against such sites in 2006. MPA president Lauren … Continue reading →

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Strange, Weird, Fun, Linkarama

Posted on December 19, 2005 by Karl

LATimes: At Inland Base, Scientologists Trained Top Gun: As Scientology’s highest-ranking figure, Miscavige, 45, has found in Cruise, 43, not just a fervent and famous believer but an effective messenger whose passion the church has harnessed to help fuel its … Continue reading →

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Joining in moral support for Six Apart

Posted on December 18, 2005 by Karl

At Philly Future Howard asks a good question, Blog Service Downtime: How Much Is Too Much?. Blogger.com, Bloglines, TypePad and others have suffered growing pains these past few months and this week users of TypePad, suffered an outage that due … Continue reading →

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Yesterday I didn’t make it anywhere I wanted to

Posted on December 18, 2005 by Karl

Saddly, I missed a party being held by a friend, didn’t make it to the blogger meetup, and band practice imploaded (as it is apt to do sometimes). But I did get to hang out with my brother for a … Continue reading →

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Bloggers Meetup Today

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Karl

The weather’s great and drinks will flow and blood will spill (ummm… lets skip the blood okay, its already been one of those weeks…)… Get details from

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