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Two Brain Cells Is a Lot in Some Places

Some old friends of mine are quoted in Tech Radar’s elegy to GeoCities. My soundbite is on page two.
“The sad…

Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists

Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you money for SEO, they are running a scam.

iTunes Geekery: The College Years Playlist

If you’re like me and have an embarrassment of digitized music in iTunes, here’s a fun thing to try: The…

Layer Tennis

Today at noon I’m playing Layer Tennis with Jason Santa Maria with none other than Jim Coudal doing the play-by-play.…

Kvetch! Reborn with Twitter a Decade Later

You know all those things you wish you could post to Twitter but don’t want to say with your name…

Hosted by Media Temple

Just a brief housekeeping note: This site is now hosted at Media Temple. They’ve been hosting Fray since last year,…

Brad Sucks is Out of It (in a Good Way)

Brad Sucks is the name of a one-man band by a guy named Brad. He makes great music, full of…

It’s 2008. I can’t believe we haven’t figured this out.

If you read this site via RSS, you may notice that now you can only read the first couple lines instead of the whole post. That’s because apparently, amazingly, we still have not figured out how to use RSS and still abide by copyright law on the web. (You can read the rest of this post at powazek.com.)

An Update to a Savvy Approach to Copyright Messaging

In my original post, I suggested adding a copyright message to a photo and use CSS to crop its view.…

Hey Apple, Don’t Make Me Think

As an official Apple Fanboy and Interface Geek, I have a complaint about the recent iteration of Apple’s iPhone software…

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