jazzsequence

  • Finding a web host that doesn’t suck…for dummies

    class=”aligncenter” We’ve all been there at some point.  You’re on the phone with some bored dude behind a computer anywhere between 200 and 9,000 miles away who may or may not speak English like a native but whose name is invariably something as innocuous as John.  He sounds like he might know what he’s talking…

  • get a free ipod from Upstart Blogger

    so you know those things that say “CLICK HERE TO GET A FREE IPOD” and you click it, and it sends you to a page where you need to sign up (or opt out) of a million different things, and at the bottom it says “this way to your free iPod” so you click that,…

  • brought to tears

    why is it that whenever i watch obama speak, i almost invariably get misty-eyed. seriously, our president has an uncanny ability to weave many disparate things into a powerful and moving speech.  he is a speaker that is above and beyond anything i’ve seen in my lifetime.  maybe when malcom x or martin luther king…

  • rise above

    [audio:RiseAbove.mp3] so i had this long post all ready to run based on some stuff i discovered through clicking around a certain blogger’s twitter feed.  it became the fictionalized story of two like-minded neophyte bloggers who came to the blogging world from an altogether different online world — the online porn industry.  they both had similar…

  • why automattic’s acquisition of After the Deadline is a big deal

    i’ll be frank: i’m a big fan of Automattic.  you might even call me an Automattic fan boy.  i keep up on matt mullenweg’s blog, and when he links to something, i jump.  when Automattic acquired intense debate, guess who was downloading it and installing it on his blog? on one hand, i’m always suspicious of companies that…

  • twitter schoolbus: some tricks i’ve found

    since i first started the twitter schoolbus experiment, the goal was to create a system that compared with twitter rocket for getting followers.  eventually, i discovered that my method was slow and took a lot of time to build a steady following. at least in theory, twitter rocket could build that following in about half…

  • a girl named jinx

    I met a high school girl today when erin and I were going to pick gavin up from his first day of preschool.  Mostly she and erin talked, I just quietly carried lilah on my shoulders.  She introduced herself (her real name escapes me) and she said something that struck me instantly as a bit…

  • Breaking: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL OMFG!!!

    gavin doesn’t look nearly as nervous as we are!

  • twitter is

    erin and i have this running debate about twitter.  the general argument is that she believes that, on the whole, twitter is dumbing down the internet, especially when it comes to creatives.  by creating a huge conglomerate of artists who all talk to each other and share ideas, there is a loss of individual creativity…

  • why i’m using twitter rocket

    the following is a letter i wrote toglorybug.  she’s been getting a lot of heat from some twitter rocket users for posting some wary and skeptical opinions and musing about the possibility that it might be a scam.  later, she posted some questions for twitter rocket users (which drew some more fire, although i’m still not entirely…