Monthly Archives: April 2008

Facebook, stop telling me who my friends are!

Listen, Facebook, we have to talk. We have a lot of fun together. We go through photos, play scrabble, chat with friends, its great. But lately I’ve started to see a side to you that I’m finding rather aggressive. I am speaking specifically about your new “People You May Know” area on the main aggregate [...]

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Who is joining ESPN Insider for the mock NFL Drafts?

It’s a special day for sports fans, the day you remember that ESPN has private content that it won’t show you Any other day, or rather, for any other sports topics the footprint of ESPN’s private articles is very small, hardly noticeable, but they seem to keep the majority of their NFL Draft content restricted [...]

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Unsure what to do with Friendfeed

I had a couple realizations this morning while adding my social network feeds into Friendfeed.com. The first was that I have the good fortune of getting “robleto” as my handle a lot. I suppose that comes with being on the cutting edge. The second was that I ‘m not sure what to do with Friendfeed. [...]

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Getting RickRoll’d

Have you been rickroll’d? Wikipedia describes it as: A prank where a person provides a link they claim is relevant to the topic at hand which actually takes the user to the video of the 1987 Rick Astley song Never Gonna Give You Up.

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Happy Naked Day

No, not like that, it’s CSS Naked Day, the day to dive under the hood of your website, rip out the stylesheet and see if your content is still accessible. If you have a W3C valid site, then chances are really good you’ve designed the site well enough that it could live without the branding [...]

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Acting in the Internet Age

Actors are not too different from bloggers. They have a talent of expression that they want to share with an audience. Their traditional avenues, on stage and on film, are equally costly and sparse. Unfortunately, a great many actors are convinced those are the only avenues and will give up their passion when they find [...]

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It’s April Fool’s Day. In the first few hours of the day alone: the Motley Fool has announced they are done with dishing out financial advice, Techcruch is suing their crush Facebook, YouTube is hijacking some content and redirecting you to a Rick Astley video (Rickrolled, it’s being called), and the one I enjoyed uncovering [...]

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