Category Archives: Blogs

The Data Life Cycle of a Blog Post

Posted on January 27, 2008 by ajohnson

Cool flash infographic in the latest issue of Wired that shows what happens to your blog post after you click the ‘publish’ button (I’ll save you the hassle of actually viewing it: after you click the ‘publish’ button, exciting things … Continue reading →

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IM and RSS: Rome is on Fire

Posted on January 28, 2007 by ajohnson

Last August, Marshall Kirkpatrick (another Portland resident) posted an entry to TechCrunch about a company called FeedCrier which: … makes it easy to receive rapid notification of new items in an RSS feed by IM I bookmarked the link on … Continue reading →

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Blogs: Not just for breakfast anymore, part II

Posted on January 15, 2007 by ajohnson

A couple weeks ago I added a short post to the Jive Software corporate blog entitled ‘Blogs: Not just for breakfast anymore‘, In the post, I hoped to squash the notion that blogs are all about opinions and are useless … Continue reading →

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Using Lucene and MoreLikeThis to show Related Content

Posted on November 14, 2006 by ajohnson

If you read this blog, you probably paid a smidgen of attention to the Web 2.0 Conference held last week in San Francisco. Sphere was one of the companies that presented and they launched a product called the “Sphere It … Continue reading →

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XSL / CSS Processing Instructions using ROME

Posted on August 30, 2006 by ajohnson

Have you seen the way that the smart guys at FeedBurner display RSS feeds in a browser (here’s a sample if you haven’t)? If you’re like me, the first time you see a feed they manage, you’ll probably think that … Continue reading →

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