Digg – a case study for the social web
Posted on Wednesday, October 27 - 2010 (977 words)
We are only at the beginning of a personal web. Presently social communities are humble experiments with lots of room for improvement. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace they all made failures along the way. They test different approaches to filter, personalize and rate the endless stream of information and it’s just natural...
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Importing old wordpress backups into intense debate
Posted on Thursday, October 14 - 2010 (1141 words)
My new blog is pretty much up and running now. The only thing I was missing were my old comments I had lying around in a MySQL dump from my old Wordpress blog I made quite a few years ago. An entry of the dump looks like this (in fact...
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Why i love text files
Posted on Sunday, October 10 - 2010 (635 words)
Text files are the single most important way we can communicate with computers. It’s no coincidence that they are also the most important way to communicate with other human beings. What we can achieve with text files is invaluable: Write it once and refer to it whenever you want to...
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What about microsoft?
Posted on Saturday, October 09 - 2010 (1300 words)
Roughly ten years ago, on October 29, 2001, Bill Gates shared a precise picture of the future of computing: In the Digital Decade, you’ll no longer think of the PC as a tool you use only to carry out specific tasks it will become something you come to rely on...
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Exporting posts from posterous
Posted on Friday, September 17 - 2010 (1030 words)
Posterous is awesome for great looking blogs without the hassle. It was great to have it for posting my thoughts when my old blog was all messed up. Now that I’ve redesigned it I want to host all my old posts on my new blog, too. Therefore I needed to...
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