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Entries from October 2004

BlogPodCasting #2

October 28th, 2004 · No Comments

A big welcome to the folks from ipodder.org. Since my last two posts traffic here has increased significantly. Tonight I'm testing out a new text-to-speech voice here. Its even better than the one I've used for the last two posts. Quality is just fantastic. The last two posts were really a pain to put together […]

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U2 iPod

October 26th, 2004 · No Comments

I've never been one to carry around music and listen much. Of course I've owned a walkman and discman but they never got much use. With the forces of iPodder, PodCasting and now the new U2 iPod how can one resist!!

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BlogPodCasting

October 26th, 2004 · No Comments

This is a bit of an experimental blog post. Since everyone is PodCasting these days and to follow somewhat in Ross Radar's steps, and likely others, I'm basically just going to take this blog entry and create a text to speech recording and enclose it here so the iPodder aggregators can pick it. That way folks have two […]

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Paulo Really Likes Bloglines

October 25th, 2004 · No Comments

Wow, for someone who's business is largely based on Radio and Manila (as far as I know) this is saying a lot of Bloglines: Even now that I'm back I keep going to Bloglines, it's a quite cool service. I made the switch to Bloglines from the Radio aggregator about a year ago.

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Top 5 Do's & Don'ts for Writing a Business Blog

October 17th, 2004 · No Comments

Debbie Weil has article for the Top 5 Do's & Don'ts for Writing a Business Blog.

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Category: Corporate Blogging

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Spam Attack

October 17th, 2004 · No Comments

Over at SimpleFilter we've been under a massive spam attack for the past day or so. In a way I'm happy that we have the spammers thinking they are getting ahead of the game but really all it managed to do was take some of the stuff that Brent and I had on the backburner […]

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Mail Cruncher is a bit crunchy

October 7th, 2004 · No Comments

This news is a bit old because I haven't been following the spam industry as close as I normally do lately. Anyway, it seems Mail Cruncher's internation team has taken 3 years to come up with what looks very similar to techniques already in use for some time to fight spam. To base their whole offering […]

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Yahoo News Alerts – Useless

October 5th, 2004 · No Comments

I'm not sure when it was but sometime within the last month or so Yahoo changed the format of their news alerts. I have been using them amoung a number of other methods for watching for various keywords in the news and around the web. Unfortunately Yahoo seemed to not only change the format but […]

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