This is supporting material for a presentation I gave on blogging packages and technologies. This presentation was given at the North Dakota Association of Technology Leaders Fall Face2Face conference in Minot, North Dakota on September 28th, 2004.
Month: September 2004
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Movies Remixed?
Well known in the music scene, DJ Spooky has recently moved beyond just remixing music. He recently released a remix of the supposed 1915 film masterpiece “Birth of a Nation“, which depicts the confederates as heros and is apparently one of the most racist movies of all time. I’ve never seen the movie myself (and […]
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A9 – The New Google Rival
Yesterday, Amazon officially launched its search service, called A9. Compared to the sparse interface of Google, A9’s looks a little more complicated. Instead of simply trying to mimic Google like Microsoft has done with its new search engine, Amazon has taken a totally different approach to internet searching. The real power of A9 is realized […]
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The Internet Hive Mind at Work
Several bloggers, most notably Steve Denbeste, have written about the concept of a hive mind. In a nutshell, a hive mind can be described as a self-organizing group/team where the collective brain power of the individuals combine to create a “superbeing” whose knowledge is greater than the sum of its parts. To the best of […]
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RNC Speeches – Free from iTunes
Apple is offering a very cool and useful service through the iTunes Music Store. They are offering many of the speeches from the Republicn Nation Convention as free downloadable audiobooks in the Audible format. They also did this for the DNC back in July, but I didn’t bother downloading any since I saw most of […]
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Movable Type Upgrade
No sooner did I install MT-Blacklist yesterday when Six Apart released Movable Type 3.1. This is a Good Thing, but unfortunately, the version of MT-Blacklist I installed yesterday is not compatible with MT 3.1. So, I manually removed the Blacklist plugin, deleted its database tables, upgraded Movable Type, and then finally installed the new MT-Blacklist […]