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April 13th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging, Travelogue

China Bound

One week from today I'll be hopping on a big bird and making my treks to Hong Kong and South Western China. It's interesting to note the responses from those who I've shared details about my trip. Typically the trivia rolls off the tongue.

1.3 billion people (about 25% of the world's population) 2.5

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April 9th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Bloggity Blog and How To Find An Old Friend

The amazing thing about my blog is the fact that I've been “uncovered” or “found” by a number of friends who I've not spoken to in years. This is kinda an undocumented feature or benefit of blogging. Of course, if you're into alternate realities, pseudonyms or are a graduate from the FBI's School of

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March 2nd, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Rebels Use Internet To Tap Into World Pulse

This weekend when Haiti's rebel's had gained control of virtually the entire island country of 8 million people the only city that remained in control by Aristide's forces was the capital Port-au-Prince.

Why hadn't the rebels successfully taken the city? Because the U.S. Government hoped they would slow down or stop their advances. You

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March 2nd, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Not My Typical Blog Post.

Ok. So this is one of those blog postings I typically avoid. If you're a first timer to The Digital Tavern please peruse by scrolling down or clicking categories. You'll get a better flavor of my writing and what I write about. But for now, I gotta give an update.

Why? Given the lack

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February 20th, 2004 | Mac My Day, On Blogs & Blogging

Read Your Daily Blogs on Your iPod.

Doug Adams posted this script that will export selected subscriptions in NetNewsWire in vCard format to the contacts folder of the iPod so upon sync you can read your RSS subscriptions on your iPod. Very cool. I'd love to see one that exports NNW subscriptions to my Symbian-OS capable phone. That would rock!

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February 18th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Update from Panera.

I just moved to a comfy leather chair with a built-in cup holder, an floor lamp and a pivotable and moveable table extention attached to the chair. This place has it going on. Could be my new office. Still raining so now I'm plugged in and maybe I'll grab a cup

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February 18th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Nothing Like Free.

The rain is pouring madly outside. The green umbrella wavers in the wind, it's rope flapping wildly. Terracotta stones seem slippery, dangerous. the wifi access is free. The ice tea refills: free. The window seat: free.

Free.

The most powerful word in advertising. And I've done a lot of advertising. Sometimes even for free.

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February 12th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Emerging? Devolving? Offline at Etech!

If you've been following any of the technology or social software bloggers you probably have seen quite a few posts about O'Reilly's Emerging Technology (Etech) conference held this week in San Diego at the Westin Horton Plaza. Part of me wanted to attend this conference while another part spoke to me: “you're too travelled

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January 28th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging, Travelogue

Guest Blogger: What Happened To The Metric System? And, Why The Euro Is So Damn Smart

Introducing our latest guest blogger: Bryan Roe

From time to time I invite friends, family and associates to contribute a 'guest blog' to The Digital Tavern. After traveling 1,000's kilometers with Bryan during our recent journey through the South of France, Bryan and I engaged in a number of conversations with regard to

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January 22nd, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging, Travelogue

Digital Tavern Updates & Bloglet

As I noted before there have been some problems getting the bloglet e-mail subscriptions working. I've written a number of new posts since arriving in France yet I've noticed no notifications going out.

So if you haven't received a notification, don't worry. I'm working on getting the service working again. Thanks for your

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January 19th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Bloglet Subscription e-mails

For some reason my XML-RPC settings were inhibiting my RSS feed from being read by Bloglet. Therefore there haven't been any subscription notices (my blog has been updated emails) in the last several weeks. Sorry for the inconvenience. You might want to scroll down the page a bit to see what new posts I've

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January 17th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

I Wish I Had A Moblog…

I see that Boris and chicgeek helped get Joi a new moblog. I must admit that since Joi got involved with TypePad his site is SO much cleaner and easy to read. Way to go Joi. Maybe he'll share his Moblogging script with me. Though as a Radio Weblogger I may be out

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December 16th, 2003 | On Blogs & Blogging

Warblogs

“Warblogs, you’ve jumped the shark. Next.” – Jason Kottke

December 14th, 2003 | On Blogs & Blogging

Words Worth More Than 1,000′s of Pictures?

Interesting. After a couple image/picture-free medium length posts here on the Digital Tavern I’ve received a few email and comments regarding the lack of photography. While away in Mexico, Italy and a trip through Wyoming, Idaho and Utah, I posted medium and longer length posts enhanced with photographs of other graphical devices. The comments

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December 12th, 2003 | Marketing & Messages, On Blogs & Blogging

Borrowing A Bit of Broadband Thanks To Open WiFi Networks

Catching up on my blog reading this evening while I adjust to NYC time, I found an interesting new “cellphone” from Sony thanks to John Robb. But as John suggests such new gadgets could lead to regulation of WiFi networks. So the guy or company who's running an open Linksys access point here at

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November 13th, 2003 | On Blogs & Blogging, Travelogue

E-Mail Notices

Digital Tavern E-Mail Notices. Did You Miss This?

For some reason email notifications didn't go out for the tail end of my Mexico adventure trip. So if you've got a minute and want to be entertained from trails on the two-wheeled road check out the recent posts from Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

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November 13th, 2003 | Creative Pursuit, Mac My Day, Marketing & Messages, On Blogs & Blogging, Travelogue

Phones. Lawsuits. & Wanderlust Cured (temporarily)

Good to be back. Though I miss the overall romance of life on the road as a free-spirited wayfaring traveler. Ah. But reality sets in. Stacks of mail. Bills to pay. Voice mail. Unfinished business. New business.

Settling in.

Back in March I wrote about cell phone number portability which now is approaching reality.

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October 20th, 2003 | On Blogs & Blogging

Bloglet Tips For Digital Tavern Subscribers

If the link to a post doesn’t work from your bloglet update email, simply go directly to the DT homepage.

I’ve received a few notes from subscribers over the past few weeks about bad links in the bloglet subscriber updates. For some reason my weblog software (Radio) doesn’t create or changes the permalink (a

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September 27th, 2003 | Mac My Day, On Blogs & Blogging

More Skype Stuff.

So ever since learning how hot Stuart found Skype and the ensing mad rush for the hundreds of thousands minions to reserve their Skype handles. And discovering Dina has been making connections from Pakistan to Patagonia via Skype, I can safely bet VoIP has never seen such a thrust of energy. In the “old

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September 24th, 2003 | Music, On Blogs & Blogging

Satellite Radio? Blogging?

A few things I found interesting this morning. First, Doc weighs in on his propensity to listening to satellite radio and his preference of Sirius over XM. But more important is his overview of a Times article than reviews radio options which ironically doesn't even mention AM and FM — the old stalwarts.

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September 18th, 2003 | Marketing & Messages, On Blogs & Blogging

The Name Game. When Your Legacy Drags You Down, Punt.

Jaws dropped with mouths wide opened when in January 2000 we all learned that the tiny little internet company Steve Case started bought the largest media company in the country. It was as if Steve Case was saying “the new economy rules” and “the internet will be the driving force for media in the

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