Unless you’ve been living under a rock, chances are you’ve heard at least something about Google’s latest foray into the social media platform arena, Google+. I have been lucky enough to be one of the 20 million early “beta” participants and geeky enough to take a look at it, and while you can read my [...]
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Book Review – Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky My rating: 5 of 5 stars Reading this was about as timely as it gets for me. Clay Shirky, one of the contemporary thought leaders examining the sociological ramifications technology – and specifically the internet – bring to us, provides a seminal analysis [...]
READ MORE »Caveat Updator : Let the Updater Beware!
So this past weekend I decided it was time to bring my blog into the new era of WordPress 3.x, and after some fiddling and diddling, I was able to coerce the auto-updater to work. (Hint : if you’re getting memory errors, use the plugin Memory Bump and remember to disable all your other plugins!) [...]
READ MORE »Google Recipes – But Can It Do Dishes Afterwards?
This may be old news to some people, but I just noticed today when I was doing a quick search for a fish dish that Google does dynamic search helpers for Recipes! And sure enough, along with addresses and shopping information, SkyNet has a microformat to make recipe data more digestible (sorry, I couldn’t resist). You can find [...]
READ MORE »Dropbox vs. SugarSync : Cloud File Services Compared
(note this article originally appeared in my work blog at NSR. I’ve made some small updates and wanted to move it here as well). Ever had one of those days where Murphy’s Law has put you in the circumstance where you need a file and don’t have it? Maybe you forgot to email it to [...]
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