Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: September 2004


This is here more as a note to myself than as one to all y’all, but these PHP/SWF Charts will come in handy on the upcoming weblog relaunch.

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OK, so this is definitely the season for Great New Media. The new R.E.M. album hits the streets next Tuesday, the new U2 single has already hit the web, but most importantly, there’s a brand-new Eddie From Ohio CD coming out in three short weeks. PEOPLE! THIS IS CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION! You can pre-order it […]

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There’s a very, very cool example of where technology and the arts intersect in The New York Times this morning:

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Huh. It looks like the Social Computing Group at Microsoft might be doing just that, with their Wallop project, although from the looks of things so far it only appears to be a Flickr+Blogger+Friendster function set. It’ll be interesting to see where they go with it… I wonder if they implemented FOAF or some other […]

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Furthermore, someone with deep pockets (*cough*Google*cough*) should go out there and frickin’ buy up Flickr, Friendster, Plazes and all these similar services and roll them all into one mammoth ‘myLife’ plugin for your weblog. It’d be the greatest combination “about me + blogroll” system ever. People are using these systems with increasing regularity, but it’s […]

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Ugh. So now I’m a member of Plazes, Friendster, Flickr, Orkut… Would someone in the know please modify FOAF so that whenever one of these new services is launched, you could simply import your profile and friends list from FOAF!? This is getting way too friggin’ complicated.

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I’m really bloody tired, so this is going to have to be quick, but Plazes is a new web thing which lets you see who else is logged onto the wi-fi node you’re using. It’s actually really pretty cool, and could conceivably become very cool if it catches on. Check it out! Oh, and I’m […]

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Today I polished off two little Flash sites and transcribed thirty pages of a history textbook. It doesn’t seem like a lot of work, but I’m bizarrely tired. One thing that is truly amazing, though, is that I feel like there are now more and more clear spots ahead. For a long time, it was […]

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I am suddenly reconsidering the design trajectory I’d been taking for my new weblog. Why? I was futzing around on my current personal site, looking for a piece of content, and I realized that with a couple of small exceptions, I really liked the look and feel of that site, even better than the new […]

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As many of you know, I’m currently cranking up my digital skills to apply to grad school. I’ve been feeling out different programs for years, and I’ve finally found the direction I want to take – the catch is, I really need to put my money where my mouth is in order to actually get […]

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