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What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

This article originally appeared on Publishing 2.0.
Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I’m going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it’s my local paper and this is a local example.
There were severe storms in the Washington area today, and the power went out in our Reston [...]

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Tags: Internet · News · Technology · Web 2.0

The War on Photography

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

What is it with photographers these days? Are they really all terrorists, or does everyone just think they are?
Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We’ve been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious [...]

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Tags: News · Photography

How Twitter’s ComcastCares Turned My Stress Filled Week Into One That Wasn’t

May 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Edit: This post was previously two posts but to make it easier to follow the whole story, I’ve edited them into a single post that was better formatted. I apologize for my long winded, and probably, poor written explanation. I’m a Web Designer/Content Manager - not an English Major (and I never liked Shakespeare anyway).
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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology

Fed Up With Dreamhost: Horrible Hosting Company

April 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Summary
I’ve now officially begun my search for a new web hosting provider. Having had increasingly bad service from Dreamhost since Day 1, it has taken me this long to finally bite the bullet and search for a new host because I was naive in paying for 2 years of hosting up front. As of now [...]

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Tags: Blog · Internet · Technology

The Rules of Clintonball

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

by Hunter of DailyKOS
Forget the spin: the race is where it is. Clinton won Pennsylvania. The overall delegate margin has barely budged, however, and it is now even more assured that there is no reasonable scenario where Clinton can pull out a primary win absent intervention by the superdelegates.
I was never a Clinton fan, in [...]

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Tags: Politics · Primaries

Twitter Having Problems? Say It Ain’t So!

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

It has been a good while since twitter has had serious uptime issues. The last time it happened was…well….since this. Well - Twitter is up to its old tricks again. It isn’t offline per say, but it might as well be. As others have pointed out Twitter has been having serious issues since Saturday, April [...]

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Tags: Internet · Social Networking · Technology · Web 2.0