Gmail Needs to Copy Rackspace Email Feature

November 22, 2009

[UPDATE] As many people are pointing out in the comments, Gmail has the Forgotten Email Detector available in the Gmail Labs experimental features. So the big difference is Rackspace recognized people need help with attachments and turned the feature on by default. In my book, Rackspace still provided better service. Have you ever forgotten to [...]

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Twitter Lists Aren’t About You

November 19, 2009

If you think the new Twitter Lists feature was designed to help you organize the people you follow, you would be dead wrong. On the surface Twitter Lists help you organize tweets into something sensible, but there’s something more in those lists. What Twitter lists really do is provide Twitter with semantic relationships between Twitter [...]

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Law Blogs Make You Smarter

November 18, 2009

I’m an information junkie. Put engaging writing in front of me and I’m distracted for hours. Reading tech blogs is a no-brainer for me, but I tend to read about tech stuff while ignoring the rest of the universe of great material. Thanks to some current work with Lexblog, I find myself reading a ton [...]

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One Device or Many for Ebooks and Digital Media?

November 2, 2009

I found an old post I wrote back in 2004 stating that I’d never buy a device that was just for ebooks. My rationale at the time was that Pocket PC devices and others like them had gotten to the point where the screens were great for reading. Now I tell everyone I know why [...]

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WordPress Export Sucks and How to Fix It

October 28, 2009

Exporting data from WordPress to take it almost anywhere else is a crapshoot as to how well the data will migrate. The extensible nature of WordPress via plugins means you get an unknown assortment of data coming along with the base contents of your post, tags, and comments. If you didn’t delete spam comments before [...]

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Advice for Startups: Avoid the Company Policy Trap

October 10, 2009

We’ve all been on the receiving end of an employee following company policy at one time or another. For me, the instance that sticks out as most obvious to me was an occasion when I went to cash a check at the bank I visited every week, only to discover I’d left my driver’s license [...]

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Seattle Eastside Social Media 101 Conference

September 12, 2009

pSocial Media school is almost in session. If you’re still trying to get your head around how to use Twitter, want to know why you need to blog, need to attract high quality employees to your company or simply want to know how to connect the dots with local social media opportunities, you should join [...]

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Seattle – Bainbridge Island Ferry Crashes into Seattle Terminal

August 30, 2009

The fog was thick for this morning’s 10:35am sailing of the Wenatchee from Bainbridge Island to Seattle. From my usual spot in the galley area, I occasionally glanced up from my Kindle to look out the window, only to be greeted with a thick gray cloud in my field of vision. As we got near [...]

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How to Learn Mandarin Chinese Language

August 26, 2009

Near the end of 2005 I finally took the initiative to learn to speak Mandarin, which is the official Chinese dialect spoken in China, as well as learn to read and write Chinese characters. I opted to hire a tutor in Seattle who could help me in this pursuit. In September 2006, I went to [...]

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How the Washington Post can beat Gawker

August 2, 2009

I want great journalism to stick around. I don’t care whether big news outlets like New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal are the source of that journalism or something new and better. What I do know is that Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira is asking the wrong questions about how to news [...]

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