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TwitterFone Goes Live

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Oliver

TwitterFone, a new service that allows you to post to Twitter via voice by calling a number on your mobile phone has just been lit up. The application is currently in an invite-only beta so if you want to use … Continue reading →

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A Few Words of Advice for PR Consultants

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Oliver

If you work in public relations, either for a firm or as a consultant, and particularly if you wish to engage with bloggers as part of the services you provide for your clients than you probably want to read this… … Continue reading →

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Tom van Flandern and Mars: a Lecture that Could Change What You Believe About Everything

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Oliver

In 2002 Dr. Tom van Flandern, a PhD in Astronomy and formerly the Chief of the Celestial Mechanics Branch of the Nautical Almanac Office and the US Naval Observatory, gave a lecture that sent shockwaves through the field of astronomy … Continue reading →

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Twitter as Get Out of Jail Free Utility? You Bet!

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Oliver

CNN is reporting that James Karl Buck, a graduate student from University of California-Berkeley was arrested while on the outskirts of a riot related to the rising food prices in Egypt when he was taken into custody by the Egyptian … Continue reading →

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The Worst Website Design I Must Use Often: Southwest Airlines

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Oliver

We all have a website that at times feels like the bane of our existence.  In my case that site happens to be Southwest Airlines.  Personally, I feel that it suffers from some uniquely bad work flow engineering and if … Continue reading →

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Idiots With Lasers Result in Laser-Ban in Australia

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Oliver

If you can’t play with your toys properly, they get taken away. That’s the clear lesson we should all learn from the recent idiocy in Australia where it seems a few folks with IQ’s at least a standard deviation below … Continue reading →

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Want to Monetize Old Content? Contact Me Now

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Oliver

Hey, everyone. This is a bit of a non-typical post but I figured I might as well reach out to my community of readers since reaching out to some other folks (like Engadget and Gizmodo and CNet and Expert Village … Continue reading →

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Death By Blogging, and Other Tall Tales

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Oliver

It’s no surprise that half a dozen people sent me a link the Matt Richtel’s New York Times Article (login required) about the stresses of blogging and the toll it takes on one’s health. To his credit, Matt did attempt … Continue reading →

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“Entity” Revealed in Disclose.TV Car Wreck Video

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Oliver

I was browsing videos on disclose TV recently and came across a rather bizarre clip. In the clip, which is being shot by the passenger in a vehicle headed down the highway, everything appears normal when suddenly, something falls from … Continue reading →

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Supplements for GTD?

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Oliver

I’m writing a series of posts on using dietary supplements to improve your health. The first installment just went up over at the GTD Times. If you have an interesting in which dietary supplements actually work and want to learn … Continue reading →

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