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For those of you not fans of South Park, the Underpants Gnomes featured in an early episode. They would sneak into peoples houses and raid their underwear drawers. When questioned they reveled the great business plan. Step 1: collect underpants Step 2: ????? Step 3: Profit I would not be the first person to suggest a similarity between this and
Check out this screenshot. Tell me why it's an Oxymoron: If you said "This is an Associated Press article - I CANNOT share it on Mixx, Buzz, Digg, Reddit, Facebook or Newswire", then you are correct! If you go to the A.P.s site, you do not see any sharing widgets. However, if you go to the sites that pay for
How long has it been since you upgraded your wordpress install. If you have been meaning to it may be to late as you may already be hacked. Full details on the show! I am very excited about Cloud RSS my prediction is that it will be the next BIG thing in the world of syndicated media. Send your comments
I have been advocate controlling ones own feed for many years. In fact I was often criticized for being a vocal opponent to FeedBurner. The hammer has fallen again for those that rely on FeedBurner, as most of us know FeedBurner is very slow to update data from your master feed additionally they have been known to strip items from
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The origins of the Onion newspaper come from my hometown. In fact, I worked with a few of the staffers at other local University newspapers. I did do a couple "Satire" articles for the Onion, but nothing was published. Apparently, the Onion has a great reach - even to those who don't understand. Another article was re-published as actual news.
If you are running an older version of WP version 2.8.3 or before you need to upgrade immediately. You risk having to re-install Wordpress, this is a pretty major attack. If you host your blog at wordpress.com you are ok. This attack is reportedly growing by the hour. Update: Matt at Wordpress and some remarks from Robert Scoble on how
Electronic readers have been a hotbed as of late. Audio books are other ways to get the content on the go. Last week Google posted a bunch of open domain books, but did you know that there is also a service that lets you download open domain audio books? A couple weeks ago I found out about Librivox.org - a
I was one of the first to get a Zune when it was announced. I also was one of the first to get an iPod Touch. Being first is great but like most "version 1.0" products, you're left wanting more. There are rumors that Apple will refresh it's its iPod line next week and I'm hoping that includes the iPod
For the past 4 years Geek News Central Listeners have helped be the judges for the Podcast Awards. As always we are seeking out nearly 40 volunteers to help us judge the entries. We will need your help in the middle of October. If you can help out please email me at geeknews@gmail.com, sorry no podcasters can participate in the
There have been some articles appearing lately about how you should not announce vacations on Facebook, lest you set yourself up for a home burglary. When I first read these, I thought, "no, duh, of course you shouldn't post that stuff on Facebook if you have a public profile, and if you only have true friends on your Facebook, you
Working on Facebook everyday, I have been noticing more and more friends using the applications. They may be fun and enjoyable, but today I pulled up the program and about 75% of the posts were either Garden requests, quizes, high scores on some game or another program that bluntly, I just don't care about. I stopped using applications when Facebook
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