Category: Technology
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Stats in the Open
John James Jacoby had the idea for an open stats platform. A Google Analytics that was open for anyone to see any site’s stats. Experimenting with opening things up and transparency is interesting to me, so after he floated the idea and then tweeted this: https://twitter.com/JJJ/status/792096310862184452 What the hell, let’s give it a go. I…
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Target to Amazon
When the clerk at Target tells me that while they don’t have what I’m looking for in store, they sell it and many more things online at target.com, I hear “Go get it from Amazon.”
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Writer’s Block
39 and 8. Tonight, I sat down at the computer ready to publish a post that I started a week ago. “Hmm”, I thought to myself, “this topic isn’t as topical as it was. I’ve read this point since I thought it was an original idea.” Move to trash. I started going draft-by-draft seeing if…
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That Time CNN Interviews You…
Don’t tweet @Velveeta about Super Bowl queso – Video – Technology Around Thanksgiving, Abby from CNN reached out wanting to do a story about my Internet-famous Twitter confusion and when she realized that both @Velveeta and I lived in Austin, it was the tipping point for her to fly out to visit with us. It…
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Who Shops at Best Buy?
The decline in sales was particularly acute for phones, tablets (so much for Apple coming to the rescue), and digital cameras. The company missed its projections by enough that it had to adjust its guidance for the full fourth quarter. Instead of flat US sales, it now expects to report a 1.5% drop compared with…
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Keyboarding Failure
Sometimes, I try something that I can just work harder at, spend more time practicing, and reach a level where I’m happy with myself. Sometimes, I am not so sure it is worth it. I wanted to pick up Dvorak. I really wanted to. I like being an edge case. I like that I run a…