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A helping hand from Technorati?

I've heard about people whose small-minded partners keep track of things like who does more dishes or who remembers birthdays and anniversaries. And I'm usually sympathetic to my friends who complain that love can't be run on a point system. But that's because typical...

Setting up Bloglines subscriptions

A little more guidance for those just getting started with RSS: some more step-by-step advice on adding RSS feeds to your Bloglines account. When you're on a site that you'd like to subscribe to, click on the "sub with Bloglines" button on your toolbar (the one you...

Category feeds in WordPress

TangognaT helpfully provides a surprisingly hard-to-find answer to a pretty basic question: how do you create category-specific RSS feeds in WordPress? And the answer is... All you need to do is add a ?cat=# of category to the base url for any wordpress feed. ...so if...

Your dream job: Representative Apple

If you love politics and you love Apple, have I found the job for you: Manager of Congressional Relations for Apple. That's right, Apple is looking for a [wo]man in DC to schmooze and hobnob on behalf of the Maciverse. Let's hope they get somebody great!

Looking for Diablogue?

I’m consolidating blogs: in future you can find my posts about civic engagement, online dialogue and related topics on Otherwise Engaged.

Technorati previews tag feeds

The beta Technorati makeover is now online and hurrah! it includes RSS feeds for tag pages. These feeds will make it much easier for people to aggregate blog-related content from across the web by subscribing to a particular tag feed — either within a newsreader like Bloglines or for republishing on a web site […]

YASBoS: Jots

Beth Kanter has added a great gnomz cartoon to our bloggespondence (Rob, please add this to your Lexicon for the New Millennium) on del.icio.us and social bookmarking. Beth's latest post on the subject pointed me to Jots, yet another social bookmarking site (OK, lets...

How to raise a gay-friendly child

Jennifer Gerarda Brown has posted a great set of tips on how to raise a gay-friendly child on the Lessig blog. A nice e.g. of the strong respect for civil rights that fits well with Lessig-style cyberpolitics.

Conference on Social Capital & ICTs

The European Social Capital, Quality of Life & Information Society Technologies project (SOCQUIT) is holding a 2-day conference in Paris (!) this September. The conference will reviw the results of SOQUIT’s research into the impact of IT on social capital, which focuses particularly on work and employment, aging population, local initiatives and migrants. For […]