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Moved Across Town
Dear Visitors,I have enjoyed publishing Internet Newcomer these past 18 months but lately my focus has changed. I have launched a new blog under my own banner at GregFalken.com.
I find my attention increasingly drawn to the intersection of computers, the Internet and communications, especially social media. At the new blog, I indulge my interest in these and several other topics. I hope you will join me there and that you will find them interesting too.
-Greg Falken
Tuolumne, CA
September 2009Moving photo by Adam Schuster
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A Moment of Silence
The China Vortex has this startling graph of Google China’s usage during the national moment of silence and mourning for the victims of the of the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan.
As David Weinberger notes, it is, eerily, like the inverse of a seismograph.
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RSS – The Oprah Definition
There can never be too many ways to explain something, right? Stephanie, over at Back In Skinny Jeans, has written a wildly popular HowTo called How to Explain CSS the Oprah Way.
The technical acronym for RSS is “Really Simple Syndication”, an XML format that was created to syndicate news, and be a means to share content on the web. Now, to geeks and techies that means something special, but to everyday folks like you and me, what comes to mind is, “Uh, I don’t get it?”
So, to make RSS much easier to understand, in Oprah speak, RSS stands for: I’m “Ready for Some Stories”. It is a way online for you to get a quick list of the latest story headlines from all your favorite websites and blogs all in one place. How cool is that?
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