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August 30th, 2011 | Mac My Day, On Blogs & Blogging

Web Apps, Apple Magic Mouse and Safari Gestures: A Bad Combo

For Mac users that have upgraded to Lion and are using any web-based applications such as Basecamp, WordPress, Tungle or just about any webpage with a form, I’ve got a personal pet peeve.

Apple Magic Mouse Is Much To Sensitive Gesture Multi-TouchI use the Apple Magic mouse. Essentially the surface of this mouse mimics a touch or track pad (taking advantage of [...]

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May 21st, 2006 | On Blogs & Blogging

Happy Birthday. Happy Anniversary. The Power of Four.

I almost forgot and let the week go by without thinking about it. It’s an important milestone for me. Actually this week marks two anniversaries of sorts. First it was 4 months ago this week that I broke my leg in Bolivia and had to be Medivad’d back to the states for surgery. More on how [...]

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May 19th, 2006 | Mac My Day, On Blogs & Blogging

SmartPhone Anxiety?

Seems Doc is intrigued by the latest Palm Treo SmartPhone announcement. That is until he discovered the new Treo 700 would only be offered on the Verizon and Sprint Networks. Back in the day Verizon and Sprint were the only carriers pushing the CDMA standard — something I believe San Diego-based Qualcomm developed while [...]

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April 12th, 2006 | On Blogs & Blogging

Goodbye Bloglet. Hello Feedblitz.

For the few hundred or so subscribers to The Digital Tavern, you've probably noticed that notifications for new posts have been sporadic at best. This is because Monsur of Bloglet seems to have abandoned his service. I can't blame him, for it has been free for so many years. There's no advertising and for the most part it has been [...]

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February 22nd, 2006 | Creative Pursuit, On Blogs & Blogging

Nostalgia & PodCasting

I just got off the phone with my good friend Johnee Bee. I first met Johnee in 1987 just months after I opened the door of my advertising agency PRISCOMM. My then partner ironically sported the nickname Johnny A and together we responded to a small classified ad that Johnee Bee ran in the local free business rag that circulated [...]

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February 16th, 2006 | On Blogs & Blogging

Checking In On The Blogosphere

While traveling by motorcycle for the last 7 months from Alaska to Bolivia, I spent much of my free “internet” time writing and posting stories from the road. But I'd tune in to the blogosphere and peruse some of my favorite blogs while discovering new bloggers on the travelers' circuit. With a few months of down time while I lick [...]

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February 15th, 2006 | On Blogs & Blogging, Travelogue

Welcome Back To The Digital Tavern

It’s like coming back to your hometown and running into an old friend. While times has passed, the conversation, familiarity and common ground makes it seem like yesterday. That is time apart has been scrunched up and the difference between now and then is irrelevant.

I’m talking about The Digital Tavern: For The Sake of Clarity. I’ve been away and [...]

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December 10th, 2004 | Good Juice, Marketing & Messages, On Blogs & Blogging

A Ten Year Old Merlot & Some Random Thoughts

Trying to pick up the pace on the Digital Tavern, but I've been focusing on a rather large project that I'll fill you in on sometime in January. Patience and focus. Two of what have become my ubiquitous phrases when offering advice (solicited or not) to clients and friends.

So the Dr. tells me I've got to control my cholesterol. [...]

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December 4th, 2004 | Mac My Day, Marketing & Messages, On Blogs & Blogging

The Hugeness of Blogging by Ballmer

Microsoft CEO tells Detroit Press columnist Mike Wendland that “Blogging is huge.” And that's why Microsoft hopes to take advantage of its popularity by launching MSN Spaces. Seems Microsoft is always playing catch up, but then again I never accused the Redmond behemoth of being innovative. Microsoft has tried to capture dollars and clicks from the [...]

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September 3rd, 2004 | Mac My Day, On Blogs & Blogging

Where Did The Digital Tavern Go? <br>Domain Nightmares & Fun!

We're here. Never really went anywhere.

If you have tried to visit this site in the past few days you might have imagined something terrible happened to The Digital Tavern.

Did it go up in smoke? Hacked by teetotalers? Kidnapped by terrorists? Or abandoned by a wayfaring troubadour more interested in curing his wanderlust than feeding words into the internet [...]

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August 31st, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Time To Move To A New Blogging Platform?

Coming off my post yesterday I must vent about my disappointment with my blogging software and host Radio Userland. It seems that for nearly a year I've been riddled with problems related to getting a daily entry effectively posted. However, I barely have a 50% success rate.

Let me explain, Radio actually is a desktop [...]

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August 30th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Digital Tavern Subscribers: Bloglet Back? Time to Move Off Radio Userland?

It appears that the Bloglet Digital Tavern updates are working again. You should’ve received an update in the wee hours of Sunday morning. I’m not sure why the service has been so sporadic and buggy. But while most you subscribers weren’t getting notices, as author of this blog I received a notice for each of my posts in [...]

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August 18th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Tomorrow: Why I haven't blogged in 3 weeks.

Ok. I'm alive. And ready to begin blogging again. Tomorrow. And you should stay tuned. There's a good reason why I've been away from the keys of my PowerBook. The full story, details and photos are coming. Tomorrow.

See you then.

No Need to Click Here – I'm just claiming my feed at Feedster

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July 15th, 2004 | Mac My Day, On Blogs & Blogging

Ebay Scam & Identity Theft

If you've purchased or sold anything on eBay more than a couple times you've probably run into eBay's rigorous security and SafeHarbor teams. Several months back I cleaned through my garage and found a bunch of old audio equipment I no longer used. Rather than toss into the dumpster, I took some digital photos, wrote some basic copy and posted [...]

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July 9th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Fear of Blogger Burnout?

Ironically enough today Wired Magazine (online) published a story on Blogger Burnout — a nice follow up to my yesterday's post on dead blogs.

[...] bloggers contacted for this story noted that their readers seem to look at their regular, consistent posting patterns as somewhat akin to a sign of physical health. And

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July 8th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

When Is A Blog Dead?

Catching up on my usual suspects of bloggers and their recent posts I noticed that Joi blogged the fact that Technoroti has tracked it's 3 millionth blog – of course when I read his post headline where he claimed that “Technorati Tracks 3M Blogs” I immediately thought of the once incredibly innovative [...]

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June 3rd, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Diggin' On The Tavern!

Thank you.

Wow. I'm a bit overwhelmed. Thanks for the responses to my post yesterday. Those who have commented here in the Tavern and those who've opted to send me an email through this blog.

It's going to keep on keeping on. What's that mean? Good god. The blog. While I traipse around this glorious planet I'm committed to sharing [...]

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June 2nd, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging

Keeping It Up. And Keeping It Fresh. Even Exciting.

With my insane but exciting travel schedule of late I've had a hard time not only keeping the Digital Tavern (aka my blog) up to date, I've been amiss in reading my favorite blogs. But some downtime today and I gotta thank Doc for pointing me to this New York Times article (read it [...]

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May 5th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging, Travelogue

China.

Traveling to China. If you’re interested in more great travel stories as I make my way from Hong Kong to China don’t miss the following posts. Some difficulty in upoloading my blog entries in mainland China so Bloglet subscription updates won’t go out because these are dated from a few days ago.

Take a moment and read through the following [...]

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April 27th, 2004 | On Blogs & Blogging, Travelogue

Going Downhill in Hong Kong!

Hong Kong is busy. We’re staying in Causeway Bay which I’ve learned is the most congested part of Hong Kong. Funny thing is half of this island is a National Park. And anything is a 30 minute cab ride away. The city rolls with steel and glass high rises from the Hong Kong bay uphill to Victoria Peak, the [...]

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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 million Military Service Personnel
  • There

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