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[9 Apr 2010 | View Comments | ]
A Living Telecom Infrastructure

During the chaos that was 9/11 in NYC, mobile communications were a mess. The World Trade Center used to be an important hub the mobile architecture in lower Manhattan. Until mid-afternoon, it was virtually impossible to make contact with anyone, if you were relying on a cell phone.

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[4 Apr 2010 | View Comments | ]
Cheap and Compact Mobile Podcasting Rig

You can spend a fortune on podcasting gear. If you’re an audiophile, part of the fun of podcasting is building different rigs for different uses. This can get expensive, though. More importantly, if you spend a lot of time on the road, it can be a logistical nightmare. Lugging around a ton of high-end A/V equipment can eat up valuable luggage space, especially if you want to do both audio and video recording.

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[24 Mar 2010 | View Comments | ]
Storytellers: Philippe-Antoine Ménard

Guest: Philippe-Antoine Ménard, the Chatty DM
Recorded: 18 March 2010

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[22 Mar 2010 | View Comments | ]
Leaving the Third Tribe

Early last month, Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, Chris Brogan and Sonia Simone launched Third Tribe Marketing, “a private community where like-minded people help each other out. It’s based on a combination of education and interaction that takes everyone’s Internet marketing skills to a higher level.”

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[19 Mar 2010 | View Comments | ]
Gmail & CRM

Is Gmail your primary email environment? It is for me. I use a number of Google’s services, and having a Gmail account makes using them easier. The general lack of SPAM is also a nice bonus.

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[18 Mar 2010 | View Comments | ]
Storytellers: Scott “Aldie” Alden

Guest: Scott ‘Aldie’ Alden from Geekdō
Recorded: 17 March 2010

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[6 Mar 2010 | View Comments | ]
Dynamic URL Suffixes

I have a problem I can’t solve, and I’m hoping someone reading this can help. I’d like to dynamically tack a set suffix on to blog URLs before feeding them out into various channels.

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[2 Mar 2010 | View Comments | ]
Why People Kill Puppies

My internet is down. Again. This isn’t the second time this month, or even the third. I have logged ten days without service for more than an hour in the last four weeks. Just today, I’ve been without service three times.

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[31 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]
Go By Slow

The most recent article from Zen Habits smacked me across the face more than a couple times. It’s not that I’m in a hurry, but I’ve complicated my life so much right now that ‘going slow’ doesn’t feel like a viable option. Relaxation is hard to come by.

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[4 Jan 2010 | View Comments | ]
Distilling my Bookmarks

I have hundreds of bookmarks. Some of them go to sites I check daily, some are there as an ad hoc TO DO list, and others are just garbage I meant to get to but never did.