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Posts from May 2007

What does “MeFi” mean in the background of Mythbusters?

(photo by heather)
I figured I should write the answer to this entry in case some fans of the TV show Mythbusters ever wonder what a small easter egg in the background of the show set means. For anyone typing the title of this post into Google, here’s your answer:
Adam Savage, the co-host of the show [...]


Ads good! No ads better!

If you’ve followed this site for a few years, you probably saw my old essays introducing Google’s Adsense to the blogging public and that time I said ads in RSS were a no-no. Today I wrote an extensive update on the same subject over on my new blog: How ads really work (superfans and noobs). [...]


National Writers Workshop in Wichita

I’m in Kansas for the National Writers Workshop put on by the Poynter people. They asked me last summer if I wanted to come talk about online stuff and I said yes, but to give you an idea of how much of a lightweight I am at this conference, I bumped into another speaker on [...]


Patton Oswalt’s Dukes of Hazzard

Patton Oswalt has a new album coming out and I got to listen to the whole thing today and I enjoyed it. I’m going to do something unusual here and post one of the 22 tracks. It’s a two minute riff on the crazy scandals that continue to hit the Bush Administration and it’s the [...]


WebVisions 2007

WebVisions starts tomorrow and I’ve enjoyed the last four of them, so I’ll be around tomorrow and Friday.
I figure I’ll just go to any talk involving Lane Becker and that’s half my schedule booked.


Digg revolt

Pretty interesting community story taking place on Digg today (as much as I can gather, after Andre showed me):

user makes a post on digg linking to the encryption key that is used to crack HD DVD protection
story is pulled, user is banned, then story goes up about banning user (people speculate it’s because HD DVD [...]