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It’s Easy To Blame Facebook
Casey Newton on Facebook and Google vs Australia wrote It’s worth mentioning that any Australian publisher aggrieved by an unfair exchange of value with Google here could opt out of search results at any time by adding …
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I Still Don’t Know What I Want To Be When I Grow Up
I posted this very tongue in cheek recently. A brief thought that passed through my mind whilst walking my dog and listening to Break The Twitch. Weirdly the act of posting it made that thought stick around longer than …
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What’s Essential To You?
Matt Birchler nailing it once again: One man’s bullshit is another man’s essential features, but for me, Ghost does away with all the stuff I don’t need and excels at what I do need. This can be expanded to soooooo many …
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Webmentions To Avoid Twitter
Perhaps avoid is the wrong word, but we’ve all felt that annoyance that we opened the app to send a quick tweet and all of a sudden time has disappeared. There are a number of ways to avoid this and the Twitter muscle …
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Writing For Yourself And Growth
Chris Hannah on blog growth That made me think, if money isn’t going to be a significant factor in any decision, and I have no desire to write for a specific audience, then I may as well just write for myself. Then if …
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Matt Goes Back to the Mac? Sorta.
Matt Birchler on his purchase of a MacBook Air: Next up is figuring out an angle to talk about this machine, because it’s great and I want to shout about it from the rooftops. I’m going to use it a bit more than normal …
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Cross Posting To Twitter
After trying and failing several times, I am starting to move further and further away from Twitter. I still check in every once in a while, but a good long break is helping to stop my impulses and curb my impusive …
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Why do I run?
There are numerous things that I cannot remember when and why I started doing, I just do. But running I know exactly when and why. I was in my second year of secondary school, and we were doing cross country. I’d never …
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Moving on and significant others
Chaitanya wrote The crux of having other significant others (as coined by psychologist Eli Finkel) is to have your needs met from more than just your romantic partner. Your partner cannot always meet all your needs even …
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Apple Privacy Information Needs To Go Further
When Apple announced the requirement for apps to be transparent about their privacy implications, I nodded in agreement and never gave it a further thought. Of course they should let users know what is being tracked and …
