Tomorrow, May 21, is the Twit-out. If you’re lost read the many many posts out there regarding the subject. This post is for those who wish to participate and could use a few pointers on how to truly avoid Twitter.
Remove Twitter clients from your startup routines. Whether they be automatic, or manual, [...]

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Intense Debate aims to improve comments on your blog. I’ll make this short and sweet:

It imports all my old Wordpress comments
It allows me to easily export my comments from Intense Debate if I choose to move my data
And this:

Nuff said.
I’m going to try it out for a week or so and see [...]

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Today, Google announced a cool new feature to Google Reader: The ability to share an item with a note. I could see this being useful for me and my podcast as Google Reader shared items is my primary source for collecting links to podcast about. Now I can do this outside of [...]

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Twitter has become part of my daily routine here at bwana.world, and I’ve found that while there are many interesting people on it, I don’t want to know everything about them. There are plenty of people who love to use Twitter to follow everyone that follows them. While I understand some of their [...]

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Video blogging has been atop of my interests lately and while I haven’t found my video micro-blogging solution yet, I am experimenting with various video commenting solutions for my Wordpress blog. I installed Viddler’s wordpress plugin which allows video comments. It was easy to install and worked like a charm.

Today, Seesmic has announced [...]

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Hey guys, what’s the best solution for video micro-blogging? I document my quest here, but I’m interested in your thoughts.

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The Adobe AIR client, Alert Thingy, for FriendFeed launched. While it shows great potential, and is very young at version 1.0, there are areas that it can definitely improve. I’ve been using it for about an hour now and while I like it, there are some frustrating points which I believe should be [...]

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First off, what is Gnomepal?

Gnomepal is an open sourced effort to take the Drupal platform and build an amazing install profile so that anyone can build and maintain a powerful online community. Yes, I just made that up.
Chris Pirillo is taking the lead on this project and has humbled himself to yield to the [...]

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A while ago, I blogged about Quotably’s lack of conversation context. Quotably was designed to solve the problem of sparse Twitter conversations. It did its best to generate a threaded view of the twitter conversation. As I stated before, it failed in many cases and added frustration to a seemingly unfixable problem. [...]

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This is a response/feedback to Chris Pirillo’s blog post surrounding a huge idea surrounding web communities. Please read his blog post in its entirety prior to reading this one so you will understand the context. Enjoy.

Let me just say, I applaud this effort and believe you are on to something here. Here [...]

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