Monthly Archives: February 2007

Anil Dash: “Those of you who are defending this status quo are defending a culture of failure”

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Karl

The past few days there seems an opening in the ongoing conversation talking place about speaker lists at tech conferences and their lack of diversity. A subject Shelley Powers has rightly brought up to various of promoters and organizers of … Continue reading →

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A Blogger Might Die For His Writing

Posted on February 25, 2007 by Karl

He’s going to jail, and there are calls to put him to death. Yet the blogosphere, the Tech blogosphere, the Left blogosphere, and most of the Right, just don’t seem to care. Boing Boing has extensive linkage about Egyptian blogger … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday PapaScott

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Karl

Hope you had a great one. Keeping my fingers crossed about your back as well. As for my herniated disc, the good news is that with my right foot healing, the last week I’ve been able to go to physical … Continue reading →

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Happy 30th to Scott McNulty

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Karl

Happy birthday Scott! And happy late 27th to Albert Yee!

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Karl

Just wishing you all a great Valentine’s Day today and every day. Lots to share, including photos from Emma’s first birthday party Spammers have messed up this blog’s commenting functionality. Sooner or later I will upgrade to the latest and … Continue reading →

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Hugh Mcleod: ‘the blogosphere is not a good place to “push” corporate messages’

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Karl

Mentions of ‘Stormhoek’, a South African vineyard that Hugh Mcleod is Marketing Strategist for on his blog: 31. Hugh public relations is “getting social media all wrong”: …the blogosphere is not a good place to “push” corporate messages. That being … Continue reading →

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Google Edits The Wisdom of the Crowd (Web) – The ‘Second Superpower’ is no more

Posted on February 2, 2007 by Karl

Lost in the discussion about Google changing its algorithm to defeat ‘googlebombs’, is that it marks a turning point for the search engine – pointing away from a service that that trumpeted democratic means to determine relevancy of links in … Continue reading →

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The enlightened ‘Groundhog’

Posted on February 2, 2007 by Karl

Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/01/2007 | The enlightened ‘Groundhog’: …”It shouts out to you,” said George Heckert, the Buddhist director of the Philadelphia Meditation Center in Havertown. This month, as it does every February, the center will hold a free screening … Continue reading →

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