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Mahalo is a human powered search engine. Yea, I said that right, and it’s probably not what you think. What comes to my mind when I hear ‘human powered search engine’ is Google’s server room with a few thousand high school cross-country stars wailing away on human-size hamster wheels. Because that sounds reasonable.
Nope, instead there […]

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If you haven’t heard, an 11-year-old boy shot a gigantic hog down in Arkansas. Apparently it’s larger than the previous record holder, a Mr. Hogzilla. Awesome.
How to create a market
Do something extraordinary. Look at this freaking animal. Now that you have everyone’s attention:
Praise your supporters by posting their comments on your website.
Rile up your adversaries […]

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Take the boatloads of campaign money that you’ve raised and split it all into two equal piles. Take the first pile and donate it to your charity of choice. Then, after you’ve earned the attention of the entire country, the leftover money should be more than enough to share your message.
In the end, even if […]

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I’ve finally upgraded both blogs to WordPress 2.2 after the imminent threat of destruction loomed. I was previously using the sidebar widget, and it’s nice to see them included in the official release. I was especially impressed that all of my sidebar settings were maintained during the process. Bravo WordPress team.
I’ve also implemented the related […]

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I’d like to say it was inevitable, but I honestly wasn’t sure if it would happen. I think it was an excellent move. And at only $100 mil! I would’ve snatched it up if Donald Trump owed me a (huge) favor. Can you think of an easier way to absorb a market?
Google is already (probably) […]

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John Chow has recently begun a campaign to charge people to have their comments marked as nofollow. I intended to post about this, but then I realized that I could group it into a review post and get a linkback from the ChowMan himself! So, to kick things off - John Chow runs a blog […]

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Courtney Tuttle is holding a competition to guess his income earned during the month of May. If you guess within $1, you get the money. That’s easy money, and I’m all about easy. The following is for said contest:
Rules:

Create a post on your blog, copy these rules and paste them into the post.
Make a guess! […]

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The web is abash with theories about Microsoft and their hungry lawyers. It’s always fun to speculate and muse but, whether I imagined the article I mentioned or not (I’m pretty sure I didn’t), Microsoft is not going to sue anyone over open source patent infringements.
Why not?
Well, it’s simply bad business. Everybody knows that Microsoft […]

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Read this blog post on Jonathan Schwartz’s blog (CEO Sun Microsystems). It’s semi-interesting. I guess Sun is trying to take advantage of the situation by wearing a halo next to everyone’s favorite devil. As I recall, I saw an article yesterday outlining some comments Mr. Ballmer made, the gist of which is that MS will […]

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Have you ever noticed that every television show ad features some type of crazily-unrealistic teaser that never follows through? Have you noticed that every time, regardless of how impossible it may seem, you still spend the next week wondering if maybe it will happen? Are they really going to get married? Will he really leave […]

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