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Get Ready to Say Goodbye to This Blog

Hey folks.

So, most folks don’t know this, but rizzn.com has been running on a sort of hybrid CMS that relies partially on the blogger platform, but mostly on eight year old code I’ve hobbled…

Aug 5 2009

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Socialism, Bureaucracy, and Farmers Branch, TX’s own Gabriel Rojas

Today was one of the most humiliating and infuriating days in my life.  I’ll give you more on that in a minute.

image The news of the day today, at least in the political-sphere, is a bit of…

Aug 4 2009

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Occasionally, I Sound Intelligent [#twittergate]

I wrote a post finally commenting on the release of the hacked Twitter documents by Techcrunch over at SiliconANGLE on Friday.

John Furrier and I had a nice little back and forth in the comments…

Jul 19 2009

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Seven (Ostensibly) Smart Pundits. Seven (Decidely) Retarded Editorials [Google Chrome OS]

image I’m refraining from writing the title of this post until after I finish writing the post itself.  My original idea was to title it “The Five Most Retarded Google Chrome OS Headlines of…

Jul 8 2009

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Having a Blast Today at #WCDFW09

The show has been a blast so far – I’m sitting in the speaker’s lounge right now writing up a couple posts for release today and tomorrow, but I wanted to fire off a quick one to recap the day and…

Jun 28 2009

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WordCamp Dallas 2009 Starts Tomorrow #wcdfw09

image I’m mostly done tonight updating my talk for tomorrow (still hafta practice it in the mirror a couple times since it’s been a while since I spoke in front of a crowd).

Just to update,…

Jun 27 2009

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I’m Lazy – Here’s crowdsourced liveblogging [#wcdfw09].

Crowd-sourced liveblogging WordCamp Dallas 2009.  Click on through to watch.

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In Other Iranian Metacoverage [#iranElection]

image I’d also like to mention, while I’m irritated about the blogosphere’s short memory, the renewed attention that happened today regarding the Iranian Deep Packet Inspection issue.

It’s…

Jun 23 2009

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A Round-up of My #IranElection Coverage









Just because we’re coming to the end of the week on what’s been a hectic amount of information coming out of the #IranElection aftermath, and…

Jun 19 2009

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My #IranElection Coverage is Moving

image I’m going to continue to provide the same sort of posts I’ve been providing so far this week on the #IranElection goings on, but I’ve decided, with Duncan Riley’s permission, to move…

Jun 18 2009

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#IranElection in Pictures









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I’ve got another flurry of #IranElection related posts coming today, but sometimes pictures…

Jun 17 2009

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#TwitterWin - #CNNFail

I’m on a live call with Michael Sean Wright (@nicefishfilms), Robert Scoble (@scobleizer), and Cyril Moutran (@mocy) right now, and we’re discussing Iran.

conversations with ? Along our curious path we…

Jun 15 2009

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YouTube – Stop It Right Now #YouTubeFail [Iran]

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I caught this tweet earlier tonight – I haven’t seen much confirmation on this other than anecdotal evidence on Twitter, but given that this is a recurring wheelhouse for me, I…

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I’ll Be Speaking at WordCamp Dallas 2009 [Help Me Out! - #wcdfw09]

image Just a quick update – I’ll have more on this for you folks this week.

I just got pinged by Cali Lewis for my speaker information, which I guess confirms that I’ll be talking at this…

Jun 11 2009

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One Cynical Bastard Speaks Out on Trolls [Arrington vs. Laporte]

Update: Michael Sean Wright sent me the follow-up broadcast that took place after the apology. Very interesting to listen to.

I completely missed out on the bitchmeme of the weekend, which…

Jun 9 2009

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