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Puerto Rican Statehood
DCist points to the fighting chance that Puerto Rico might finally become a U.S. State. I support the addition of states to the Union. Puerto Rico is one. The District of Columbia is another complicated story being populated by U.S. citizens not having a vote in Congress. New York City skews the politics of the…
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WordPress Custom Fields Contest Extended
I know there’s some last minute interest in the contest I announced on February 1st and to give everyone a fair shake, the contest is being extended 1 month to March 30th. Remember, the rules state that the project must be new in the Feb 1 to March 30 timeframe. Older projects are not allowed.…
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BlogNetworkCamp SXSW
Because we like camelcasing things, I’d like to extend an invite to anyone who plans to be at SXSWi to join b5media, 451Press, Random Shapes and (add other blog networks) to BlogNetworkCamp. Jeremy has kicked things off with a little background and I’ve posted the event at Upcoming.org where you can RSVP. Potential Topics to…
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The Digg Mob
As demonstrated by the chaos that ensued on “the HP thread”, the Digg mob is essentially a classless, shameless group. I guess they have every right to be. But the reality is that people take on personalities and alter-egos far different than they most likely have in real life. This week is Digg week here…
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HP Gives Consumer the Middle Finger
Notice of Comment Moderation: If you are coming here from Digg and want to leave vile comments with nothing constructive to say, your comment will be immediately deleted. This is not Digg. This is Technosailor. Behave as you would in public. If you’re going to call someone an “asswipe”, have something to add to the…
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Unsubscribe
If you run a blog that is nothing but “speedlink” style posts, you will be removed from my feed reader shortly. Linkblogs are great when paired with real content. If you can’t generate any real content of your own, you’re wasting my bandwidth. Bye bye.
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FOWA Presentation on Venture Capital
I saw this presentation that Ben Holmes of Index Ventures gave at the FOWA Conference in London “Everything you need to know about Venture Capital“… He put his slides on slideshare so take a look. (BTW, Slideshare rocks) Here is an entrepreneur’s take on the slideshow: Think of this as liner notes if an entrepreneur…
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If you want value, don't listen to dnScoop
There’s an interesting new service out there that everybody’s talking about. Trouble is, Seth Godin is the only one call an apple an apple. The service is dnscoop and it’s respectable enough to be on a shared host that never seems to be up. When you can get to the website, the idea is yet…