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Bloggers imprisoned in Iran and USA

December 10, 2006

Internet journalists are being imprisoned in ever greater numbers, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. For the first time, two bloggers have been imprisoned, Arash Sigarchi and Joshua Wolf. IRAN: 1 Arash Sigarchi, freelance IMPRISONED: January 26, 2006 Sigarchi, a former editor of the daily newspaper Gilan-e-Emruz and a Web blogger, was sentenced to [...]

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Blogging for Dollar$

October 5, 2006

This week’s Ottawa Citizen Tech Weekly was billed as the blogging issue.Â There was a reprint of the Washington Post article about Andy Abramson’s highly successful Nokia Blogger Relations Program, as well as a short piece on security and RSSÂ from the Las Vegas Black Hat Conference.Â The highlight was aÂ front pageÂ articleÂ titled Blogging for Dollar$ on [...]

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Feed Upgrades

May 17, 2006

Bloglet has been a handy service I’ve been using for several years to provide Saunderslog by email to any who wished to subscribe.Â Periodically it breaks, though, and I have to go fix the interaction.Â Well, yesterday was the last time.Â While at the site fixing the feed, I discovered that the owner planned to [...]

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Being the Weekend IT Warrior

May 7, 2006

Ever have one of those weekends where it seems like all you’re doing is being the household IT manager? It’s one of those for me. Memory upgrades on PCs. The main machine I use at home has become very slow ever since I put multiple accounts on it for the rest of the family. More [...]

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Skype 2.5 Beta: Nice to Have

May 3, 2006

Skype 2.5 beta was quietly released last night. Aside from Rich Tehrani, and Andy Abramson, nobody seems to have noticed. I’ve been playing with the new beta this morning, and while many of the changes are appreciated, they mostly fall into the category of ease-of-use and fit-and-finish. If I were the product manager for this release, I’d describe [...]

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The Globe on Wikipedia

May 1, 2006

The Globe and Mail did something really unusual this morning: they devoted an editorial to Wikipedia (behind their premium firewall, sorry!). Normally reserved for political or social commentary, the editors wrote about this internet phenom instead. Towards the end, this paragraph explains the motivation: The Wikipedia model is not perfect, but its success has implications that [...]

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