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The theme of a WordPress blog is like its skin, its graphical interface… So the theme is part of the blog’s identity.
Should that identity be preserved across platforms, even when some of the platforms are mobile? A recent post suggests that it typically isn’t. ...
Online
Wordpress
Android
PCWorld gets it:
Underwhelmed By Chrome OS?
That’s Kinda the Point .
Yes, the two parts of the headline are 7 and 5 syllables. Just add a first line, and… instant addition to my collection of Chrome haikus .
Chrome defines a web appliance. I believe there’s a big ...
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Chrome
TypeKit is a web service that allows you access to hundreds of fonts for your websites. I’ve just started using Typekit on my Android Icon blog , since I think that blog should use Droid fonts on as many platforms as possible (i.e. not just Android).
Android Icon is self-hosted (i.e. ...
Mobile
Android
Wordpress
We often have to make decisions under uncertainty. (If you’re uncertain what uncertainty means, you could read the Wikipedia article , although it’s unlikely to provide you with certainty.) These decisions lead to outcomes. You and your decisions may well be judged, by yourself and ...
Software
Bill Gates
All apps are web apps
on fast secure Chrome OS.
Posts here , here , and here .
And the Chrome browser
(tail that wags the OS dog)?
Extensions launch soon.
Posted in Web Tagged: chrome, google, haiku
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Chrome
Clay Shirky posted today an interesting ramble around the plight of local bookstores . Here’s his most telling point.
The local bookstore creates all kinds of value for its community, whether its hosting community bulletin boards, putting rocking chairs in the kids section, hosting ...
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Amazon
If you’re reading this on a mobile phone, you won’t be seeing this blog’s Simpla Way theme. That’s because WordPress.com automatically uses a mobile theme when displaying blogs on a mobile device .
What about self-hosted WordPress? I went over to the WordPress.org ...
Online
Wordpress
Android
iPhone
Android Icon is my newest blog. This android is the starting point, but there are other droids to look at…
If there is a support group for people who can’t stop starting blogs, please let me know.
Posted in Blog, Mobile, WordPress Tagged: android, androidicon
Mobile
Android
Wordpress
WordPress App Store: that’s WPPlugins , as described by the folks behind it (and by Daniel of TechCrunch ). Buyers from the store are looking for premium plugins, and are willing to pay for them. Sellers are developers looking to make money from their plugins.
WordPress plugins are ...
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Wordpress
Automattic
Frank Zappa said it (“Music is the best”), Ian Rogers is fond of quoting it. Ian’s most recent post is about the release of an album by a band he’s co-managing. I’ll give two tastes of how Ian sees the business of music. First, a quote including an ordered list.
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Other
I was thinking about the relationship between the pyramid scheme and the pyramid of attention. The pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme” ( Wikipedia ).
And the pyramid of attention ? ...
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Wikipedia
Twitter Lists: Journalism Becomes a Real-Time Job is the title of a very recent post by Pete Cashmore, Mr Mashable himself. My real-time reaction to it was that real journalism is not a real-time job, since it requires fact-checking – and maybe even thought.
Perhaps I was reacting to ...
Online
Steve Jobs
The less stuff you have to move, the easier the move. We’ve been trying to live by that as we prepare to move from Boston to DC. We’ve lightened the load in many ways: giving things to friends, donating things to thrift stores, putting stuff out on trash day, and… Craigslist. ...
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Craigslist
The New York Times isn’t just mainstream media on paper these days. It’s also mainstream media online, with a side order of social media. Its site includes a number of blogs, one of which recently included a post entitled 100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1) .
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iPhone
NYTimes
Another weekend, another Halloween… but I’m getting ahead of my blogging. Last weekend saw the last SoWa open market of 2009. SoWa is a silly term for the south end of Boston’s South End.
It was a lovely sunny October day, we bumped into some friends, we bought some ...
Other
The Data Liberation Front is a team at Google with a laudable mission.
Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team’s goal is to make it easier to move data in and out.
The DLF is good, in many ways. Its mission is good, in that ...
Other
The Droid, the new smartphone from Motogoozon, will cost $1831. Motogoozon is of course the combination of Motorola, Google, and Verizon. The cost would be $1831, were it not for a rebate: what a relief that it’s so much lower than $2K.
1831 = (299 – 100) + 24 x (39 + 29). As ...
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Android
Motorola
Verizon
Even Twitter Thought Twitter Was Stupid At First , reported Jason Kincaid from Startup School. Well, if Ev Williams and Biz Stone thought that, I was in good company.
The Twitter story is a mirror image of the story of the The Emperor’s New Clothes . People find uses (clothes) for ...
