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How to turn off beacon in Facebook

Jeff — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:18:54 -0700

Here's how to turn off Facebook's Beacon from publishing information about your offsite purchases into your mini-feed. Click Privacy in the upper right -> then click News feed and mini-feed, then click the Actions on External Websites tab, then check...

Facebook super creeped me out tonight

Jeff — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:18:37 -0700

Update: Even though I clicked the remove button and unchecked the checkbox beside "always publish stories" before clicking the okay button (see second image below), Facebook went ahead and published the ticket purchase to my profile. Apparently, their interpretation of...

Bad webmaster: Seattle Weekly breaks links to article archive

Jeff — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:09:55 -0700

This is bad. I just noticed the Seattle Weekly's new web site has a different link notation for its article archive. As a result, links to articles are now broken. For example, Citizen Microsoft formerly at http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0439/040929_news_microsoft.php is now http://www.seattleweekly.com/2004-09-29/news/citizen-microsoft.php...

How to sell magazines 101: New Yorker Cover Shows Muslim, Flag-Burning, Osama-Loving Obama

Jeff — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:13:34 -0700

Who knows if they'll get this in Dubuque, but they sure aren't going to like it in Chicago: This week's New Yorker cover features an image of Michelle and Barack Obama that combines every smeary right-wing stereotype imaginable: An image...

Photos from my Oregon road trip

Jeff — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:28:11 -0700

oregon_ 12 Originally uploaded by reifman Check out the firedancing at a July 4th party I attended outside Salem.

Word of the day: sexatrigesimal

Jeff — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:17:17 -0700

Sexatrigesimal is one of those words that sounds more exciting than it is: Sexatrigesimal is a representation of a number in base 36. Base 36 is a positional numeral system using 36 as the radix. The choice of 36 is...

Follow NewsCloud's Top Stories on Twitter

Jeff — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:04:27 -0700

NewsCloud's top stories are now regularly posted to twitter. Follow NewsCloud on Twitter. Technorati Tags: twitter, breaking news, newscloud

Google Open Sources Browser Sync

Jeff — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:00:19 -0700

Open sourcing this has some issues. The data it stores are cookies and passwords - very important. And, once open sourced, someone still has to run the service on their servers. I trusted google with my cookies and passwords (heck,...

Team Photos in the Age of the Mobile Worker

Jeff — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:19:11 -0700

My friend Garrett works remotely from Portland for a Washington state company. They posted this team photo to their Facebook page: Anyone want to post a version for outsourcing? Technorati Tags: team photos, mobile workers, telecommuting, outsourcing

Net Neutrality After FISA Debacle

Jeff — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:15:09 -0700

I've got to wonder what the future of Net Neutrality is given how the Congress sold its vote on the FISA bill to the Telecom lobby. Clearly, the Telecom industry outbid the Bill of Rights. Given that this FISA bill...