Passingnotes - all of the crap

[DEEP THOUGHTS] Librarians are so hot they make me sexist

Dave — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:19:42 +0000

okay, so i just got back from vancouver where the lovely carla graebner invited me to present a session on competitive intelligence in libraries - it was a blast…and so if you quickly refer to the 2nd edition of the Guide to Standard Male Fantasies, after the one where the hot female doctor asks you [...]

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[OPINION] Has hubris settled in amongst the spam fighters? Are they really just fighting dross?

Dave — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:04:04 +0000

…is it a deeper issue - far beyond just spam? is it about miscomprehension of what constitutes spam and what is simply the intellectual dross that surrounds all online dialogue? there’s an interesting discussion going on over at the blog of dries buytaert, most famous for being the big brain behind drupal… basically, dries has conjured [...]

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[TOOLS] Yo hoss, want a free copy of EasyVOIP Recorder?

Dave — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:07:29 +0000

so this is cool…after i wrote that article about how to record phone calls, the guys over at easyVOIP recorder dropped me a note to thank me for the mention and asked about advertising.. …of course, since you all know i’m a total asshole, i quoted them 10 thousand per month - but they’re just a [...]

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Making Passingnotes easier to use, but still stupid!

Dave — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:30:10 +0000

okay, somebody just sent me an email about this and i had to share it right away - because you can try it for yourself…oh…it’s so exciting, maybe it will work forever (hope hope) - here you go: go to elGoog’s search page, type in “fucking stupid“ - and what do you see? why, passingnotes.com is [...]

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[TOOLS] Pre-flop Gold! A whole buncha bullshit to play with on the interweb and your phone

Dave — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:43:50 +0000

you do know what i’m talking about with ‘preflop’ gold, right? it’s a poker expression - as in, “that ace and jack suited that i was holding looked great until the flop came out.” in the world of internet tools, it’s more like, “that site looked awesome - i registered right away! then i realized [...]

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[HOW TO] Recording Phone Calls

Dave — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:25:38 +0000

so i got an email earlier today asking for a recap of something i discussed with a few members of aiip a while back - how to record phone calls and convert the sound files on a project…thought i’d actually try to be serious for once and explain this in brief as a reference…but i [...]

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Dr MicroHoo, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb

Dave — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:59:58 +0000

what in the absolute fuck is this? elgoog issuing an “official corporate statement regarding microsoft’s bid for yahoo“? is this a joke? after telling all employees last week to keep their mouths shut???? for those interested, i’ve translated google’s official statement into plain english and changed drummond’s dialogue into exactly what he’s means (my translations [...]

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Hey PN readers, please update your RSS feed for Passingnotes!

Dave — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:02:04 +0000

so, i broke down this year and decided to give feedburner a try (elgoog bought them y’know) - seems simple enough…should also make it very easy to subscribe in any reader or reader service…oh, and you can also get new posts emailed directly to you if you like to sound out the words one by [...]

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Google considers adding an apostrophe to a help document and other 08 Rumors

Dave — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:32:56 +0000

…hey, i’m back, was in the sun then back to boston, had to fly with a sinus thing and my ear actually blew up when i got home (very nasty shit, blood and deafness, like a black sabbath concert)…and then i remembered that i hadn’t written anything on this site in like a month or [...]

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Does Google eat its own dog food?

Dave — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:07:34 +0000

i have it from a very, very reliable source that elgoog began migrating their own internal corporate employees to google apps nearly 13 months ago…to be specific, as of last winter elgoog employees were using gmail for communications and assorted apps for collaboration (mostly calendar)…actually, i knew this last november but was only able to [...]

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How the Social Internet simplifies Source Identification

Dave — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:39:16 +0000

How the Social internet simplifies source identification. This is an article that I wrote for my regular column in Competitive Intelligence Magazine, published by the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP.org). It’s been reformatted here for online consumption. Oh, and it was written in draft form a little while back, so if you know of any [...]

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Prince Albert, Wikipedia and some Shaved Balls, or, Wikipedia needs Adult Content Warnings

Dave — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:33:02 +0000

okay, so i’ve got a new beef with wikipedia - the absolute and total lack of adult content warnings…so let me tell you this little story, it’s kind of funny… my older son and i have developed (as of late) a bit of a mildly raunchy rapport, something his mom might not go for..i remember what [...]

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New article for Competitive Intelligence Magazine running on Profy.com

Dave — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:22:05 +0000

a few months ago i talked about this article i was putting together for “competitive intelligence magazine” (from scip.org) about finding sources online - it finally went to print this month and will then go up on the scip site later, as well as on my own corporate site… at the time, dozens of you requested [...]

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Is Google the REAL Octopus? Google IS just like PROMIS…

Dave — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:21:54 +0000

well, back from summer fantasy land and immediately hooked into this little conspiracy theory that bubbled up a while ago on socnet, the listserv of insna - comment had to do with the nsa’s foray into sna back in the 70’s through promis (the “prosecutor’s information management system”)…promis was authored and created by inslaw inc, [...]

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Google acquires Mahalo and Calcanis to be Google COO

Dave — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:11:20 +0000

hah…in mahalo’s dreams…what a stupid ass company…this is just a TEST post because i skipped all of august (very busy with iced coffee, work, a new dog, trip to maine etc)…curious to see if this backdates… new post coming shortly. Similar Posts to waste time on:Mahalo is maha-fucking stupid, also causes gas and cramps Making Passingnotes easier to [...]

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10 ways that Google is like a doody with corn in it

Dave — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:44:01 +0000

kidding! there’s no elgoog in this post, just thought the title would trick the clickers…and wow, haven’t written in a while, been busy with something else but thought it would be nice to do a quick roundup of some assorted tools that i’ve been dicking around with…generally speaking, most of what’s on the interweb either [...]

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Truemor 2: what Google and Apple are really doing together.

Dave — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:48:31 +0000

okay, so i just wanna put this out there for reactions and for you to noodle over…short: google and apple are in bed together for a reason. google will use safari on windows and mac to control ‘web as desktop/os’ (not mozilla)…read on… first - we already know about the big apple/google relationships (schmidt on the [...]

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Truemor: What Google is REALLY planning to do for 2008

Dave — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:14:26 +0000

Okay, the rumor starts here (my theory, duh)…Short version: elgoog (Google) is planning to launch the world’s largest social networking site ‘overnight’ and at the flick of a switch and will become the Mitsubishi of the internet. Huh? Exactly. Let me explain…while yahoo and others continue to explore acquisitions in the social networking space (e.g. bebo [...]

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Mahalo is maha-fucking stupid, also causes gas and cramps

Dave — Thu, 31 May 2007 03:50:39 +0000

…has the whole world of startups turned into a vanity contest? a cradle for investors low in self esteem? for real, just when i though the vc’s couldn’t throw money at anything more stupid (200+ photo and video sharing sites funded last year? duh), along comes the ultimate insult to the collective intelligence of internet [...]

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Fat men rejoice, research shows you need only be handsome to get punani

Dave — Mon, 14 May 2007 02:44:24 +0000

oh, so now here’s a great piece right in time for summer - particularly for those men who insist on wearing greek-style bathing suits at american beaches…apparently women care more about your face than your body….this is from a recent new scientist bit: the face, not the body, attracts a mate …of course this totally conflicts [...]

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Forbes attempts web 2.0 thing, fucks it up.

Dave — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:39:27 +0000

okay, now this is just so dumb and so poorly executed that i want to chew my typing hand off (with my recently whitened teeth) - and i feel soooo bad for the talented coders who spun their wheels on this thing…forbes.com is trying to launch an org chart wiki - the “big news” was [...]

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Color me crappy: some more new tools to play with

Dave — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:31:23 +0000

hmmm, so i’ve been way busy but wanted to try to get back to blogging at least once a week (!)…maybe…thought that since folks are always emailing with requests for tools and resources, it might make sense to throw out a bunch of quick round-ups for readers…with that in mind, here’s another batch of things [...]

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March of the penguins, err, I mean Librarians

Dave — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:05:10 +0000

i laughed, i cried, i choked on a jujube…this is truly magical…(it’s a video, so click through if you’re not seeing it via rss) or visit: youtube (to add to your own youtube video collection) Similar Posts to waste time on:RateMyNetworkDiagram is a popularity tool for Networking Geeks Mahalo is maha-fucking stupid, also causes gas and cramps Grooming [...]

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Simple proof that Google IS selling ads for Porn, Liquor, Drugs and Guns

Dave — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:21:16 +0000

okay, so we all remember this bullshit interview with playboy that barry and sergio did a while back, in which they not only blathered on about their do-no-evil mantra, but also went on to rationalize how and why they’ll take ads for wine, but never for liquor, guns and porn? well, apparently times have changed, [...]

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Some useful and not so useful research crap

Dave — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:26:21 +0000

hey, yeah, i’ve been under water for a while…wanted to write up a bunch of cool tools and utilities that i’ve discovered but to be honest, a lot of them (upon closer inspection) turn out to be shit…so with that in mind, i’ve pulled together a short list of stuff i’ve been screwing around with [...]

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