Subscriber’s Remorse (1)
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I sign up for almost every web application/service available. I try the alphas and the betas. I use OpenID or create logins. My GMail is crammed with automated emails. Many of the services add social networking features. I add some of the same friend’s on almost every service. I have user accounts on hundreds of websites. I am not claiming to be in the top 1% of early adopters either. I would venture I am ...
A Thief In Our Midst? (1)
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This is a breaking news post, folks.I've just had a conversation with Mary Ann, the owner of Knitter's Niche at 3026 N. Southport. Knitter's Niche isn't a big place, but it's one of Chicago's oldest yarn shops and Mary Ann is known far and wide for her deep knowledge (particularly of lace knitting), her enthusiasm, and her loveably gruff persona.On Monday night, somebody broke into the shop and made off with $5,000 worth of yarn ...
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A Little Tribute (1)
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The bicycle and the chicken warmer I wrote about yesterday were both entries in the Knitting Camp contest. The theme–pieces celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Schoolhouse Press–was inspiring. But given the frantic and fraught nature of my spring and summer, I figured I'd skip it because there'd be no time (and less money) to prepare something really good.Then, as I was packing for the Provincetown trip, I got an idea for a project that would ...
Down with FriendFeed Etiquette | FPettit.com (17)
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I am against FriendFeed etiquette. Over the past few months I have seen several suggestions and discussions about “FriendFeed Etiquette.” I would characterize all incidents as innocent suggestions by users trying to solve small problems they were having with FriendFeed. Incidents The first example I saw of this was Duncan Riley mentioning FriendFeed etiquette. He posted, “Thinking FriendFeed Etiquette. Obviously duplication is an ongoing issue, but I think people purposely reposting links to content directly ...
The HTML Fieldset (2)
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This is just a quick post about something I learned the other day. Do you learn everyday on the internet? I do. I thought I would share something very simple that some bloggers might want to use. What is an HTML fieldset and why would you want to know? W3schools defines a the fieldset element as follows: “The fieldset element draws a box around its containing elements.” This is a fieldset: Text In Fieldset Example ...
Startup Customer Service (7)
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I upgraded this blog last week to Wordpress 2.6. Prior to the upgrade I had been using a custom permalink structure. Upon upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6 the link structure would not display individual posts. As I a result I changed my permalink structure to one of the defaults and my blog began displaying the posts correctly. Now I had changed my permalinks throughout the site. I use Disqus the great full featured commenting system. ...
Toluu Releases Feed Preview (8)
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Toluu updated again this morning releasing another great feature. The latest feature is Feed preview functionality throughout the site. When you mouseover a Feed title a window is revealed listing the last 5 blog posts contained in that feed. I spoke to Caleb Elston the Toluu founder about this feature. He said, “We actually decided to build in this functionality when we found ourselves passing by feeds because we didn’t want to wait for the ...
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Toluu could be the hottest shit on the internet. If you're not familiar with the service it's an rss sharing and discovery service. You connect with people on the site to find new feeds through other users lists. They recently added a feed preview feature that makes looking through someone's list must easier. Invite only, but FPettit here still has some.
Declaring Your Social Media Independence (3)
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The Evolution of Social Media I read an article this morning titled “The Evolution Of Wordpress.” Wordpress is the fabulous CMS software that powers this blog. Hack wordpress a great blog that I read was commenting on the changes and improvements the Wordpress software has seen. In the same way the advances in Social media are dramatic. Systems, methods, and technologies that many rely on were not around or were in infant stages just 5 ...
Declaring Your Social Media Independence (4)
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The Evolution of Social Media I read an article this morning titled “The Evolution Of Wordpress.” Wordpress is the fabulous CMS software that powers this blog. Hack wordpress a great blog that I read was commenting on the changes and improvements the Wordpress software has seen. In the same way the advances in Social media are dramatic. Systems, methods, and technologies that many rely on were not around or were in infant stages just 5 ...
My FriendFeed Stats Top 10 (1)
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After recently being LouisGrayed, my subscriber numbers have increased. For the new subscribers if you want to know what I am up to you can find me on FriendFeed. Mike Fruchter recently posted an image of his FriendFeed stats and I appeared as the one who found him most interesting. Below is an Image of my FriendFeed Stats: Mike Fruchter posted overnight “10 people you should follow on Friendfeed.” I appeared as #5 on his ...
Better Google Reader (1)
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Better GReader is a Firefox extension by Gina Trapani of Lifehacker. This Firefox extension combines many Google Reader Greasemonkey extensions into one easy installable package. I updated to the newest version 0.2.5 that includes a Greasemonkey script with enhancement to the feed icons. The addon uses each sites favicon as the feed icon. Pretty cool. You can download the Greasemonkey script only here. Finally here is a link to the Lifehacker post about Better GReader. ...
