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TechCrunch pointed out that Encyclopedia Britannica Online is allowing web publishers to sign up for free one-year accounts and share the content with their readers via a new program called Britannica Webshare. Well, dear readers, I myself signed up for the service and was accepted. When I signed up, I thought that this would be [...]

Who thinks the main text font of my blog posts in this template are too small now? I’m debating bumping it up a few notches. Vote in the comments!
UPDATE: I upped the font size a bit. Thoughts? Big enough or more?

Andrew Keen (*) was at Mahalo HQ today to talk about his book Cult of the Amateur and what he thinks of Mahalo and what we’re doing. It was an interesting discussion, which you can watch right here (fast forward until about 45 minutes in as we set up the video early and ended up [...]

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Caption time!

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This is pretty interesting. PicApp lets you embed Getty Images and other normally copyrighted (and therefore unusable by bloggers) images directly into your blog posts like the above picture of Madonna. Whoa.
[via GigaOm]
ps—What is Madonna pointing at and why? *raises eyebrow*

Check out this comment by Noli Novak in reply to the comments left on a post I wrote back in 2005. Here’s an excerpt:

Crap hit the fan the day I decided to launch my own website. Everything stated in it then and now is nothing but true, but KS was (is) pissed for one simple [...]

Marc Orchant died this afternoon:

It is with great sadness that I report that Marc Orchant, Husband to Sue, Father to Rebecca and Jason, and friend to so many, passed away just a short time ago. I was notified by Marc’s brother Craig.
His family and closest friends were at his side and his favorite music was [...]

Found this via Jordan Running’s twitter earlier today. Marc Orchant Updates and Information can be found here, including a letter from Sue Orchant, Marc’s wife, updating us on how Marc is doing:

In this past day we have seen some baby steps of improvement. He has some response to stimuli and his oxygen levels and heart [...]

Sad news to wake up to on a Monday morning:

Currently Marc’s immediate family as well as his brothers and parents are in or on their way to Albuquerque to be with Marc. Sue has asked me to keep Marc’s colleagues and friends in the technology community updated as information becomes available. Please do not contact [...]

So, I finally managed to get my blog’s new design to fully validate. Check it out. It took a little bit of combing through the code, but I managed to squash all the validation errors.
The most problematic of the errors was one caused by Blip.tv’s embed code. If you want to embed Blip.tv videos without [...]

So I’ve settled on a new design for this blog. It’s Cutline by Chris Pearson with a slight bit of tweaking (mainly with the picture). For some reason, I cannot get the template’s built in Archives to work, so I removed that page. When I tried to turn it on, it pointed to a seriously [...]

Here’s another one: How Pam Beesly got her groove back - TV Squad
This is so cool. I’m so proud of Kristin, blogging it up!

Kristin has started blogging for TV Squad!!! She’s going to be internet famous! Check out her first post: Top seven extenders of reality TV fame - TV Squad
Here’s a random picture from the weekend to commemorate the event:

w00t!

My pal Damien is back to blogging again. And he’s hatched a kid! Check it out:
A big part of my return has been the birth of my son, Casey, three weeks ago. This won’t be yet another DaddyBlog, but I will periodically have a post about my boy. As I said, this will be [...]

I’m a longtime fan of Doc Searls’ blogging (I had the pleasure of meeting him last year at an Unconference), and I was surprised to see that he moved his blog: Doc Searls Weblog · Same old blog, brand new place. However, I’m overjoyed that he did, b/c now his feed comes through in pieces [...]

How the heck is this legal: (Book VII) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? Scribd? Full text of the book scanned in AND an audio version of the entire book. Found via this awesome post.
UPDATE: Double holy Harry! You can embed it:

ps—Harry Potter sucks. That is all. :-b

I spotted Jason’s post where he is begging Joseph Ambeault and Joe Savage for Verizon Fios and I thought Yeah, I want Fios, too, but then I thought of a different approach:
Dear Verizon Marketing Department:
Hook me up with free Verizon Fios in Chester Heights 10708 (and wherever I may move to in the future), and [...]

…I turned off the incessant Twitter daily update posts on this blog. If you miss them, you can still see what I’m twittering in the bottom of the right-hand column, or over here (if it’s up).

I saw over on Brian’s blog that there is a new Blogsmith site that aggregates all the sites running on Blogsmith. Coolness, I thought, I can subscribe to the feed to that site and get all the Weblogs, Inc. blogs in one big river of info!!! Alas, all that feed has is this Blog Jovi [...]

All the trees are pollinating the air I breathe, and I feel about half the energy I normally have. It’s as if my consciousness is burried beneath 3 feet of cotton. In other news, I’m posting this lamentation from my Helio Ocean. Not enough energy to get to a computer. I need coffee…