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Is it possible for water to go sour? I just took a sip from my about an hour-old glass and the water, I swear, tasted like it was curdled or something. I went back to the faucet and tried pouring another glass and it was perfectly fine. Maybe I shouldn&
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I downloaded Trillian today which allows me to combine my AIM, MSN, ICQ, and Yahoo screen names and buddy lists in one place for instant messaging through one interface. Up until this point, I’ve been a lax IM user… it’s on, but I usually end up calling people
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It’s springtime in Austin. The cold snap I predicted on Friday was short lived. On Sunday, it was absolutely beautiful outside. So I hopped on the ol’ bicycle again for another romp through my neighborhood. This time, I had a very specific mission… There is an extensive network of
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Again, once April 10 comes around, I’ll try to crystalize some of the vapor. A while back, Adam and I had an email conversation about Tock and email and things… this is an excerpt I wrote in response to his mentioning Zoe. Zoe IS cool. From what I gathered,
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I talk a lot about this offline, so I figured I needed to plug/brag about this online… This is a BIG deal that my organization is pulling together… Note the names of our Co-Chairs who are leading some of the thought behind the agenda (CEO of AMD, President of
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…I’m stuck at home, babysitting my nephew (instead of being out with the austin journal writers). Catching up on blog reading… trying to make sense out of so many voices. Trying to use logic and reason to clear up some of the fuzzier bits in my mind about this
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Chip presented the austinbloggers.org website during Justin Hall's Geek Out during SxSW in front of several of the blog-world A-listers (including the Trotts, the Movable Type & Trackback people - Trackback is a technology which drove the development austinbloggers.org site). He did a great job and
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This morning I, stupidly, tried to tweak my plexi-glass art piece for tonight’s EFF-A / EFF / ACTLab / SxSW show. I blew out my power supply. So I skipped all the SxSW morning sessions to quickly rig up an alternate power source. We’re back in business, though… I didn’t
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I started at the “How the Internet Connects” panel which had the Meetup, Livejournal, and Hotornot founders. I had high hopes, but was a little disappointed. They didn’t seem all that prepared actually… They each gave their little stories of how they started their sites. Then, only 15 minutes
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Raw Notes from User Centered Design PanelUser-centered Design Panel User-centered design � focus on partnership with designer focus on effects you will have on lives of people in their context how is this thing going to work in the real world with real people? Design for the Real World...papenak As
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Here are raw notes of David Weinberger's Opening RemarksDavid Weinberger www.evident.com self@evident.com http://www.worldofends.com David weinberger WEB MATTERS 10x number of friens 100x more people know 1000x more people Every idea represented we assume we can get more info about anything �we
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Thanks to people like Cory, we have wireless access at SxSW in the Austin Convention Center. Right now, I'm sitting on a comfy black couch for a little bit, catching up on neglected email, and preparing my notes and such from here. Power outlets are more numerous than