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web 20: Will Home Buyers and Sellers Figure Out that We're Phoning it In Here - 11/17/07 01:01 PM
I linked to a few posts on my real estate internet marketing blog, and by far the bulk of the ensuing discussion from ActiveRain folks ended up being about duplicate content -- posting one thing on your own blog in the hope that the search algorithms will love you, then posting either exactly the same thing or a version of it here on ActiveRain, typing for points.
Now the implications of that didn't dawn on me until just now, when I was modifying a post I wrote so I could put it up here as well, and I realized that I was … (0 comments)
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web 20: Here a MySpace, There a Yourspace, Everywhere a Space Space - 11/04/07 05:21 PM
Old MacDonald had a social network, E - I - E - I - O.
And now you can, too, free for nothing. Old MacDonald got nothing on Y-O-U!
Reprinted here by permission of the author, who is also me just like I am, is my ParticleWave article, Reductio Ad Myspace. This weekend at the bookstore I browsed through Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur with a lot of interest. I also looked into a book that's probably at the opposite end of the Web 2.0 Hype-o-Meter, Wikinomics.
Keen argues with some justice that with the huge proliferation of blogs, the Internet … (16 comments)
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web 20: How To Turn Off Comments on ActiveRain - 10/21/07 06:36 PM
I had comments off on my main blog for awhile, when the bubblers were giving me some trouble. They're back on again.
I've never had to do that here.
Why would anyone want to turn off comments on ActiveRain?
Dumb idea -- heck, they even pay the author some points when people comment enough.
Nevertheless, in case you're unusual enough to ever want to turn off comments on your ActiveRain blog, I have discovered how. It's actually simple, and requires no software or HTML skill at all.
All you have to do is do some fundraising.
I have inadvertantly discovered and tested this through two posts about … (5 comments)
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web 20: Working with Yahoo Pipes - 07/08/07 01:25 AM
Warning: Pen Pocket Protector Zone ahead...
Purva Brown recently asked me if we could get Sacramento Home Journal set up so clients could subscribe to it by email.
There are a couple of ways to accomplish this. One is to keep paying GetResponse.com -- which has so far been on my "cost cutting measures" to-do list for some time. Another way would be to use a service specifically designed to do this and not much else, such as FeedBlitz.
In the course of thinking about this, I realized that what I'd really like to do if we're going to implement this is to … (2 comments)
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web 20: Maybe Your Writer's Block is Trying to Tell You Something - 07/07/07 01:19 AM
I've had a bit of writer's block lately.
Nothing really serious. I've been treating it with coffee and aspirin.
In the course of the aspirin and coffee kicking in, it occurred to me that maybe my writer's block was trying to tell me something. Maybe I have nothing to say because, after all, I have nothing to say.
We have our mechanisms, don't we, for having nothing to say, now that we've decided that we need more nothing, lest we not have enough "content". Back in the day, we had nothing to say, so our web sites had about five pages, with a bazillion … (7 comments)
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web 20: Stay Connected with Plaxo - 07/04/07 12:42 AM
Greetings, Web 2.0 junkies.
Tonight I had a chance to play around a bit with Plaxo, an online address book and calendar that syncs with everything and the kitchen sink -- well, sort of. Robert Scoble calls it the Switzerland of Social Networks. I admit, I'm not sure if he means it's neutral, has chocolate, is an army knife of some sort, is high up in the Alps, or what, but like Scoble, I found myself really wanting to like it.
I still really want to like it, and because of the lure of having a contact book that automatically updates itself when … (8 comments)
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web 20: Web 2.0: That's You All Over - 07/03/07 10:23 PM
Those of you who've been through the Wizard of Oz as many times as I have will recall this exchange:Scarecrow:"First they[the Flying Monkeys] took my legs off and they threw them over there! Then they took my chest out and they threw it over there!"
Tin Woodsman:"Well, that's you all over!"
In a recent tongue in cheek complaint about trying to keep up with Web 2.0, I said I would soon be posting an online portfolio.
So here it is: John Lockwood 2.0: an Online Portfolio.
I know what you're thinking: Hey John, that's pretty cheesey, having a page full of links back to yourself. … (1 comments)
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web 20: A Page Full of Nerd - 06/12/07 11:50 PM
Those of you who are familiar with MyBlogLog.com (see for example the "Recent Readers" section at right), may have been impressed as I was recently by the profile editing page.
OK, only a nerd would say that. The pen pocket protector fits just fine, thanks.
The profile editing page of MyBlogLog.com has line after line after line of places for you to enter your online places:
It goes on and on, with a line for whole slews of Web 2.0-ish places I've used a lot, others I've never heard of.
What the hooka is a Wakoopa?
Bebo? Don't ask me, Joe.
If you were looking … (0 comments)
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web 20: Web 2.0 Love/Hate Final Article: In Praise of ActiveRain - 06/11/07 04:15 AM
This is the final installment of my five part series on my love hate relationship with Web 2.0. The top paragraph of Part Four has a good summary of parts one through three, so I'll let you read that and just catch you up by saying that in Part Four, I complained about the pervasive popularity contest nature of Web 2.0, and that by Part Four, we'd started to work up a score card of sorts. At the end of part four, love and hate were tied, 2 to 2.
Now it's bases loaded, two men out, bottom of the ninth.
Let's see … (6 comments)
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web 20: My Love Hate Relationship with Web 2.0, Part 4.0 - 06/10/07 12:00 PM
This is part four of a (mumbledee mumbledee I don't know how many)-part series about my love hate relationship with Web 2.0.
In Part 1.0, we just preambled and ambled and threw out a few warm fuzzies.
In Part 2.0, (Other Peoples' Code) we started working our way into the technical meat somewhat, talking about what is, after all, a key part of the programmatic definition of Web 2.0, integrated web applications using Javascript, and especially, AJAX. Forgive me if that's mumbo jumbo. It's just a bit of nerd talk, but the good news is that we're past that now. Part II was … (3 comments)
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web 20: My Love Hate Relationship with Web 2.0, Part Three - 06/08/07 05:38 AM
I recently published Part Two (or Part Deux, for you Charlie Sheen fans) of my Article Series on My Love Hate Relationship with Web 2.0. Part two gets into some of the technical issues surrounding the use of Other Peoples' Code.
I think I'll do Part 3 here, and start it off this way:Where Does My Blog Live?
Having dispensed with the topic of Other Peoples' Code, we now move on to a related topic: Other Peoples' Web Sites. Here I am on one now. I started out this article series on the Sacramento related site above, where it probably didn't belong. Today … (22 comments)
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web 20: Mapping Site Coming Along - 06/06/07 10:29 PM
A non-ActiveRain project of mine, the Sacramento Map Project, is beginning to shape up fairly well.
Right now it's currently at the stage of publishing experimental map mashups for Sacramento County. (A mashup is basically a web site constructed out of other peoples' data, programming interfaces, or the like). In this case, what's being mashed are Metrolist MLS data on the one hand and Google / Yahoo Maps on the other.
There's a tentative todo list for the development work that I'm working on, the subset-of-the-MLS database is taking shape, and there are a few maps published.
For example, here are:
An index to Sacramento … (0 comments)
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web 20: Active Rain, Revisited - 06/06/07 10:50 AM
Well, look who's come crawling back to ActiveRain. Me.
I'm not sure I really have time to say much here, since I'm the author of two and a half other blogs already, but I'll try to at least post the links to those so if you happen to meet me here it won't appear that I'm just hanging out not collecting valuable brownie points.
With that, how about we start by metioning my post about my Web 2.0 Love Hate Relationship, which also mentions how I've come crawling back.
I want you to have something nice to read that I wrote. That's the kind … (4 comments)
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