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Revising Movable Type 4’s QuickPost Bookmarklet: [This] bookmarklet code reproduces the old behavior: no title, body contains HTML for a link to the page with the page title as the text, and selected text afterward.

I can’t stand Rush Limbaugh. I think he embodies the need for white racist misogynist homophobes to blame their problems on anything but themselves. It might be women who won’t make sandwiches, gay people desecrating the institution of marriage (which already had a 50% success rate) or the immigrants that can somehow be so lazy […]

After you’ve targeted a specific niche (or lifestyle) and looked at why they go online and why we buy, and fashioned your content into net peppered with keywords and concepts in multiple media formats to bring them to our subscribe button to get them on our list. Now what? We cultivate. Once our leads are […]

Instead of a list of tips and tricks on how to extract the maximum Shamwow out of your new year, I thought I’d do the exact opposite. Actually I started off writing a list of things I wish I’d kept in mind in 2008 and thought they’d probably be applicable to you as well:

Sitting here waiting for the New Year and Ron to get back from the airport. Typed this out:

I just stood hypnotized in the living room watching the Shamwow commercial again: I’ve seen these carnie type salesguys at the Great American Hellhole known as the Kentucky Flea Market which takes place every month at the Kentucky State Fairgrounds. It is truly a wonder to behold with all manner of junk, treasure and mullets. […]

Actually the journalist had yelled BLOG and those weren’t shoes. I haven’t seen this much controversy since Hugo Chavez quoted my book to the United Nations.

With all the JavaScript wizardry the devs at Facebook manage to shoehorn into Facebook (and support so many different configurations of browser and operating systems) it constantly amazes me that their targeted ads get such poor performance: A Facebook advertiser who has spent thousands of dollars on campaigns targeted by age and country says that […]

There’s a few people in this world I’d trust with anything and one of them is Tina Forsyth. Eric and I have often referred to Tina and Andrea J. Lee as our Witches of Eastwick (the third was Susan Austin who appears to be still underground – hope she’s okay). I first met Tina back […]

Mused with a friend that perhaps Sequoia’s Good Times RIP presentation was purposefully over-alarmist to get more leverage from the CEOs of funded companies.