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I’m currently sitting at McChevron, having purchased some WiFi, and now I am blogging.
This is working pretty well, however, I am going to see if there is any kind of Web based alternative to the built in text editor in Wordpress. Obviously, when you think about the limitations of the iPhone as a text editor […]

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Why in the hell do I do these? Because I care, bokay?
In any event, I have now found online editor nirvana. Having discovered a plugin that turns the native Wordpress tag system into Technorati tags, I feel I can now blog from the native editor comfortably enough. The plugins I have are Simple Tags, and […]

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I am a bit jealous. I’ve discovered a really good blog tool for Windows called BlogJet. BlogJet is everything that ecto, MarsEdit, Qumana and a whole host of others for the Mac are not. You would think that a platform that is so intent on content creation like the Mac is, would have a full […]

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Judge Says Music Sharing Doesn’t Necessarily Equal Infringement (Updated) | Listening Post from Wired.com:
The RIAA appeared stymied by this result and indicated it will press the issue. “This is a strange decision that is outside of the mainstream and inconsistent with countless court rulings on these issues,” said an RIAA statement. “We are currently considering […]

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AT&T providing free Wi-Fi to iPhone users | iLounge News:
AT&T has begun offering free Wi-Fi to iPhone-using customers at some of its Wi-Fi hotspot locations, according to several reports. When a participating AT&T Wi-Fi network is accessed by an iPhone user, a specially-formatted page appears offering “Free AT&T Wi-Fi for iPhone.” iPhone users must enter […]

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Macworld | How the iPhone is killing the ‘Net:
Is the iPhone killing the ’Net? That’s the question posed by Oxford University Professor Jonathan Zittrain in his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It .

Zittrain is a bona fide member of the digiterati—a cyberlaw scholar with multiple degrees from Yale and […]

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Now, csc is powered by Wordpress 2.5. This is not just a minor upgrade to patch some security holes, this is major. In order to help out, here is a list of plugins I have found to be compatible with 2.5 right out of the box…

Admin Menu v. 4.0
Advanced TinyMCE Editor v. 0.5.0
CapCC v. 1.0
Comment […]

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Flock, a browser designed on the Mozilla engine that powers Firefox and many others, like the Mac only Camino, is probably the only tool you will ever need if you are into social networking. It is designed around blogging and new media per se, with hooks to Weblogs like Wordpress, Movable Type, TypePad, and LiveJournal. […]

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What I’ve seen so far, I like. Flock is based on the Mozilla engine which means it’s based on Firefox, bottom line. So far, I have not used any of the blog features, as I paid money for ecto, and I like the convenience of that too much. I will probably post my review using […]

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From Macworld
Analysis: Yahoo bid could backfire lest Microsoft change its ways:
But the cultural implications of the move are so tricky that the deal could end up backfiring for both vendors if Microsoft doesn’t take care to learn from its past and use Yahoo to transform its business, not just help bolster its unproven efforts in […]

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