Tagged Again?
I seem to be one of few bloggers fellow anthroblogger Nancy Leclerc (aka Gary Dickinson) wishes to tag: Music, Books and Spirit: 8 things . . . So, even though I’ve been tagged very recently, I’ll...
View ArticleReadership to Comments Conversion
As mentioned recently (among other times), I’d like to get more reader comments than I do now. Haven’t been really serious about it as I’m not using any of the several methods I know to get more...
View ArticleObligatory New Feature Test
Yeah, I know, everyone is probably tired of WordPress.com blogs having test posts. Here’s mine. Basically, I want to make sure editing in Safari 3.1 works as advertised, without garbling linebreaks and...
View ArticleOmnivoring Conspiracies
Yup, I occasionally like to jump on bandwagons. Especially when they’re full of food and is being mentioned in a video presenting a cool local event in which I happen to take part. Alejna put the final...
View ArticleObligatory 2.7 Post
When new features are added to a blogging platform, I figure I should try them. In this case, the QuickPress box in WordPress 2.7 is fairly neat. But I’m mostly excited about the Batch Editing feature....
View ArticleInfluence and Butterflies
Seems like “influence” is a key theme in social media, these days. An example among several others: Influenceur, autorité, passeur de culture ou l’un de ces singes exubérants | Mario tout de go. In...
View ArticleShuffling Answers
The latest “meme-like” thing I’ve seen (on Facebook): put the ipod on shuffle use it to answer the question hit “next” try not to cheat Sounds fun. The result is that we notice patterns in...
View ArticleSocial Networks and Microblogging
Microblogging (Laconica, Twitter, etc.) is still a hot topic. For instance, during the past few episodes of This Week in Tech, comments were made about the preponderance of Twitter as a discussion...
View ArticleSharing Tool Wishlist
The following is an edited version of a wishlist I had been keeping on the side. The main idea is to define what would be, in my mind, the “ultimate social bookmarking system.” Which, obviously, goes...
View ArticleWar of the Bugs: Playing with Life in the Brewery
Kept brewing and thinking about brewing, after that last post. Been meaning to discuss my approach to “brewing bugs”: the yeast and bacteria strains which are involved in some of my beers. So, it’s a...
View ArticlePapa's Got a Brand New Blog
Switched to this here WordPress.com blog from Blogger. Mostly because of categories. And because my academic blog is on WordPress (but hosted on a university server). The beta version of Blogger does...
View ArticleComment Tracking
Oh! Just found out about coComment, a comment-tracking system with a Firefox extension and a bookmarklet for other browsers. It seems to work on both WordPress (including WordPress.com) and Blogger...
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