Monthly Archives: February 2007

suggestion: tinfoil hat for digg mind control laser defense

February 15, 2007 – 11:34 am

We call it a Suggestion Board — you can browse suggestions from other site visitors or post your own. Digg-style voting means we can quickly discover what’s most important to users.Source: It takes two to Tango – Yodel Anecdotal Sweet merciful crap are Digg fans a scary, groupthink-y bunch. I work at Yahoo! — so [...]

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i should be writing

February 15, 2007 – 4:05 am

You know what I have had some enthusiasm for lately? My renewed fiction writing efforts. My latest exercise into 7th Son / Infection podcast fanfic might seem a bit precious and / or silly — at least, I know I’ve always turned my nose up at fanfic, or surreptitiously checked out examples of [...]

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Thoughts on Pipes on the Web – Part II

February 15, 2007 – 3:49 am

In the last post, I expressed concern for my own well-being over a lack of head-over-heels love for Yahoo! Pipes. On the surface, I think it’s because it’s not a freshly discovered concept for me, and also probably because I’m tired and a bit hacked out right now. But, I think there’s a [...]

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Thoughts on Pipes on the Web

February 15, 2007 – 3:09 am

By way of my meme tracker, I found something like 15 entries linking to Yahoo! Pipes from my feed subscriptions. That’s crazy — I’ve usually never seen more than 3-5 feeds linking to anyone thing, maybe as many as 8 if it’s something really hot. I read about it over morning coffee and [...]

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