andru Edwards, a list member from the Gnomedex's Lockergnome braintrust has asked several of us to pay homage to his father who recently passed away. a small request indeed. andru's family (his mother and six siblings) have each decided on a "section" of life that they will take the helm of to create a memorial of their husband/father. He chose the internet as an outside the box approach because he works on the internet and it is a part of who he is.
With this being said, all he's asking is for those with a blog to link his father's name, "George budabin" to an article above where he talks about his father. also, if you use tags, use the tag "George budabin" in your post as well. This has taken me all of two minutes to do and it helps a son and family honor someone who meant so much to them.
In his request andru writes:
"I know some of you have parenting blogs where this may fit, and others personal blogs. If this would simply conflict with your site, readers, etc., please feel free not to. My goal here is to simply create something where when you search Google or Technorati for my dads name, you find my article, along with the support that the blogoshpere has shown by linking to it."
I'm going to point out the obvious here: We all have fathers, some of us may not know ours…
others may not like theirs. We all have loved ones that have gone on before us who we'd like to honor. My father passed away when I was very young. I have no memory of him short of a couple of dreams I have every few years. I'm not sure if that counts as a memory, but I've been told by my mother that the events in the dreams actually occurred. I'm not sure how I "know" of them as I wasn't present at the time.
I miss him. a lot.
andru's request choked me up. I'm rambling now. I do that when I get uncomfortable with a subject.
Here's the link http://www.andruedwards.com/index.php/blog/article/the-loss-of-a-hero-goodbye-dad/
andru's post finishes with:
"If you do choose to link, please drop me an email (andru [@] gearlive [.] com) letting me know. Once I have a few and Google starts picking them up, I want to create another "Thank You" post highlighting them all, and also want to show my mother how amazing the blogoshpere can really be."
Please consider andru's request.
Posted: Dec 21st
andru Edwards, a list member from the Gnomedex’s Lockergnome braintrust has asked several of us to pay homage to his father who recently passed away. a small request indeed. andru’s family (his mother and six siblings) have each decided on a “section” of life that they will take the helm of to create a memorial of their husband/father. He chose the internet as an outside the box approach because he works on the internet and it is a part of who he is.
With this being said, all he’s asking is for those with a blog to link his father’s name, “George budabin” to an article above where he talks about his father. also, if you use tags, use the tag “George budabin” in your post as well. This has taken me all of two minutes to do and it helps a son and family honor someone who meant so much to them.
In his request andru writes:
“I know some of you have parenting blogs where this may fit, and others personal blogs. If this would simply conflict with your site, readers, etc., please feel free not to. My goal here is to simply create something where when you search Google or Technorati for my dads name, you find my article, along with the support that the blogoshpere has shown by linking to it.”
I’m going to point out the obvious here: We all have fathers, some of us may not know ours…
others may not like theirs. We all have loved ones that have gone on before us who we’d like to honor. My father passed away when I was very young. I have no memory of him short of a couple of dreams I have every few years. I’m not sure if that counts as a memory, but I’ve been told by my mother that the events in the dreams actually occurred. I’m not sure how I “know” of them as I wasn’t present at the time.
I miss him. a lot.
andru’s request choked me up. I’m rambling now. I do that when I get uncomfortable with a subject.
Here’s the link http://www.andruedwards.com/index.php/blog/article/the-loss-of-a-hero-goodbye-dad/
andru’s post finishes with:
“If you do choose to link, please drop me an email (andru [@] gearlive [.] com) letting me know. Once I have a few and Google starts picking them up, I want to create another “Thank You” post highlighting them all, and also want to show my mother how amazing the blogoshpere can really be.”
Please consider andru’s request.
Posted: Dec 21st
The bloglines team came here to talk on, of course, news aggregators! big wine for a big idea … what is it with geeks and booze? The bloglines team is going to give away giant bottle of wine.
It's not just ideas in any product, but also execution on those ideas. Don't do everything, do some things and do them well. basic product development ideas. You'll always have strays who ask for crazy things, and you'll have crazy ideas too. It's deciding what bits and pieces will be big and useful and easy.
Question: What are the next big ideas?
* Open access of full demographics: (age, location) for readers so people can build upon them ex. add a map to the readership to get what's hot by location
* Existence cleaner: erase or mass modify all or part of your online profile
* add context and relevance to blog posts (through blogosphere analysis of like content) [Winner]
* Feed bundler for user & publisher to spit out only one feed from many input feeds. Subscribe to a person not a person's X, Y, Z
* add more social components to the feed readers: add social components to engage the readers (versus them remaining solely on the site – where does the community reside, issues of monetization)
* Digg elements
* Content based clustering
* CC License info
* Rate blogs (not just posts)
* Social network management
* Tag subscription from within our existing network of friends: smart filtering
* My addition: an ego feed with my own posts filtered out
These are audience ideas, and the "best big idea" wins a giant bottle of wine.
Now a big idea … automatic synthesis of content into something digestible. Giving context. Now, I'm wondering is FeedRinse will do this? but … it would be something I would use.
These are audience ideas, and the "best big idea" wins a giant bottle of wine.
Subscribing is SO HOT. Downloading the individual episode is SO NOT. So subscribe to the gallucci.net podcast already via iTunes!
Photo credit: Scott beale / Laughing Squid
Posted: Aug 15th
The bloglines team came here to talk on, of course, news aggregators! big wine for a big idea … what is it with geeks and booze? The bloglines team is going to give away giant bottle of wine.
It’s not just ideas in any product, but also execution on those ideas. Don’t do everything, do some things and do them well. basic product development ideas. You’ll always have strays who ask for crazy things, and you’ll have crazy ideas too. It’s deciding what bits and pieces will be big and useful and easy.
Question: What are the next big ideas?
* Open access of full demographics: (age, location) for readers so people can build upon them ex. add a map to the readership to get what’s hot by location
* Existence cleaner: erase or mass modify all or part of your online profile
* add context and relevance to blog posts (through blogosphere analysis of like content) [Winner]
* Feed bundler for user & publisher to spit out only one feed from many input feeds. Subscribe to a person not a person’s X, Y, Z
* add more social components to the feed readers: add social components to engage the readers (versus them remaining solely on the site – where does the community reside, issues of monetization)
* Digg elements
* Content based clustering
* CC License info
* Rate blogs (not just posts)
* Social network management
* Tag subscription from within our existing network of friends: smart filtering
* My addition: an ego feed with my own posts filtered out
These are audience ideas, and the "best big idea" wins a giant bottle of wine.
Now a big idea … automatic synthesis of content into something digestible. Giving context. Now, I’m wondering is FeedRinse will do this? but … it would be something I would use.
These are audience ideas, and the "best big idea" wins a giant bottle of wine.
Subscribing is SO HOT. Downloading the individual episode is SO NOT. So subscribe to the gallucci.net podcast already via iTunes!
Photo credit: Scott beale / Laughing Squid
Posted: Aug 14th
John Edwards comes to Gnomedex more to learn than to give a speech. While folks on both sides of the political spectrum had a hard time keeping the topic on technology, Sen. Edwards came across as a good speaker that isn't afraid of talking about real issues.
Posted: Jun 30th
