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Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements — answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and electric can-opener — all dropped dead on me in the past few days.
Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will only get Sarah Palin.

The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla - Dick Cavett Blog - NYTimes.com.

Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product.
With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope. Even $150 Blu-ray players won’t save it.

Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony! | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com.

Small, isn\'t it?

“We are from, not there!”

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Kevin Kelly — The Technium

The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches.

Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet - New York Times

Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish — on the Web, at least — free. Faculty members are scheduled to vote on a measure that would permit Harvard to distribute their scholarship online, instead of signing exclusive agreements with scholarly journals that often have tiny readerships and high subscription costs.

This is for Lance to use with MarsEdit

  1. Create a draft post (on the server) with MarsEdit
  2. In the Wordpress manage posts click on the convert link

Voila

I know - it is 2 steps, but it isn’t that hard at all

P2P Converter - convert posts to pages

You don’t have to make it a draft - publishing for a brief moment isn’t that big a deal, is it?

It’s kind of a pain if you want to keep track of pages and/or edit them once they are created, since MarsEdit is only dealing with “posts”.

The connection between MarsEdit and a WordPress blog is the MetaWeblog API. That doesn’t give any kind of fine-grained control.

Now if we could convince Red Sweater Software that “enhancing” MarsEdit to take advantage of the WordPress XML-RPC API would provide enough control to be able to use ME as a full “controller” application for WordPress blogs.

I already bought my copy of ME, but I would be willing to buy a new copy if it could do the full control of my WordPress blogs (posts and pages)

43 Folders: Hack your way out of writer’s block

Write from a persona - Lend your voice to a writing personality who isn’t you. Doesn’t have to be a pirate or anything—just try seeing your topic from someone else’s perspective, style, and interest.

number 16 is not for Christine ;-)

I’m paid by da man, don work fo him no mo.

corporate: Corporate Blogging Policy

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Mine. All Mine.

The hot-selling item for Christmas 2005 is the remarkably fascinating “Bonsai Crop Circle”.

Order yours today.

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Entry one - notoriety will bring what?

It’s all about the category.