Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Love the Dave Winer comment here:
“…At a blogging conference, an open discussion, a young person asked me how much a guy my age could really understand about blogs.”
ex·pe·ri·ence
-noun
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4. knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone:a man of experience.
In my experience (and I have experienced similar comments) arrogance is a […]

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I’ve been building something really dumb Simple-stupid, kind of fun, seductive but with a little hint of guilt to go with it. Sound familiar?
Anyway as part of it I’ve been looking at search APIs. And boy, do they suck. I’m gonna write a little more about that, but one initial impression - these API […]

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I guess my immediate response is Required: 20+ years of hearing this complaint without anything actually changing.

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Apparently this is the Digg-Ask.com collaboration that has been rumored. Where’s the digg part? Scroll down… One more time… there you go.
Disclaimer.

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Ha Ha. It’s funny, interesting and useful all at the same time!

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Revver’s asking price is between $300,000 and $500,000, as well as the assumption of the company’s debt, which is in the $1 million range, said two sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

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Or at least in the United States. Jeff Mathews has a good post. Also Marc Andreeson randomly mentions Halifax, NS in his dreary post (not the writing but the subject matter).

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In his latest TMQ column, Gregg Easterbrook argues that a Patriots win would have been forever tainted by allegations of cheating and poor sportsmanship.

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Techmeme has a link to a password-protected piece of what looks like it’s going to be “Canada needs to adopt more draconian US-style measures like the DMCA” piece. Not sure why the abstract merits appearing at all. But the piece is written by someone named “Michael Eisen”
One and the same? It’s common practice in the […]

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Encourage smoking!

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