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2009 by the numbers

31-Dec-09

What’d I do in 2009? Some of my numbers are paltry and lame, but here they are anyway.
I posted 51 posts to this blog, teleogistic.net (and a handful of posts in other places). Those posts brought 183 legit comments. 3,299 unique visitors stopped by from 84 countries and 49 US states (WTF South Dakota?). The [...]

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How the internet works: A case study

07-Sep-09

11:09am: Brooklynite posts free desk on craigslist
11:19am: A robot tweets the listing
11:21am: The tweet shows up in one of my Tweetdeck columns, set to monitor tweets mentioning my neighborhood
11:49am: Fifty pounds, four blocks, two sore arms, and one helpful passerby later, I have a new desk

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I like ambiguous demonstratives

02-Apr-09

One of the recent changes to Facebook that went undiscussed (or at least less discussed than the it-looks-like-Twitter thing) is liking. Attached to most of the pieces of content that appear in Facebook is a button that says “Like”. The intent seems to be this: liking is like commenting without content. Kinda like carving your [...]

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Totonno’s burns, Boone mourns

14-Mar-09

I just read some terrible news: My favorite pizzeria, Totonno’s in Coney Island, has suffered major damage from a fire this morning. I’ve had a lot of great pizza in New York, but Totonno’s was, at its best, the best in the city, and it’s also the most consistent of the great joints. I might [...]

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On the cloud

02-Feb-09

Google freaked out this weekend, which, in turn, freaked me out. I’m a pretty ardent user of Google’s cloud services. Gmail is the most important to me, as it’s where all my email from the past four or five years resides. Reader has streamlined my online reading process so much that’s it’s hard for me [...]

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Lessons learned on HDD replacement

17-Jan-09

I just swapped out the stock 80GB hard drive on my Macbook with a 250GB, 7200rpm model that I picked up from Newegg. The process was not all that smooth, and I didn’t get a ton of help from the internet, so I thought I’d try to earn a little bit of karma and put [...]

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Hard work and distraction: together at last

02-Jan-09

I just read this piece by Mike Elgan. Elgan’s argument is that hard work is dead in an age where we have Twitter, Facebook, email, etc. to constantly and effortlessly distract us.
There seems to be a mistake in this reasoning. If all that’s changed from now and the golden age of hard work (whenever that [...]

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