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Moving WordPress: redirects

Jun 30, 2005 |

I recently moved my blog from http://alexandrasaamuel.com/blog to http://alexandrasaamuel.com. That involved not only moving my actual WordPress program files but also figuring out how to redirect visitors following outdated links to my old content. Today the...

.bed

Jun 29, 2005 |

Our headboard needs an ICANN-accredited domain registrar. We always come up with the best domain names as we're falling asleep, and forget them by the morning. No godaddy jokes, please.

This sheep talks back

Jun 27, 2005 |

On my way back from this weekend's meeting of the Online Deliberative Democracy consortium I had a chance to enjoy the ever-increasing vigilance of US airport security. At the end of my last US visit I ended up at the airport with a colleague who relayed the...

My 10 sites

Jun 27, 2005 |

As promised, I'm picking 10 sites for my bookmark bar; in fact they're pretty much there already. Here's what I'm going to try to live off of for the next week, with no search and no typing addresses into the address bar: My blog's admin page My del.icio.us page My...

Take the 10-site challenge

Jun 25, 2005 |

I'm blogging this from Mike Weiksner's sidekick and it is painful not to have one, bluetooth or no bluetooth. (Its one major shortcoming.) The phenom of mobile browsing - which makes typing a little annoying - reminds me of a favourite question of mine: if you were...

e-Democracy skills training

Jun 25, 2005 |

I was part of a break-out group discussion today on making online deliberation tools accessible. We discussed three facets of this challenge: tool design, user training, and motivating participation. Our conversation began and ended with user training issues, becuase...

Online tools for ODDC: URLs

Jun 25, 2005 |

I'm in Minneapolis for the Deepening Online Deliberation workshop hosted by the Online Deliberative Democracy Consortium. We had a terrific conversation today about some of the tools available for online deliberation and for collaboration among deliberation...

Ambush kills U.S. troops in Iraq

Jun 25, 2005 |

Snip: The suicide car bomb and ensuing small-arms fire killed at least two Marines and four others were missing and presumed dead. At least one woman was killed, and 11 of the 13 wounded troops were female.

The ambush late Thursday also suggested Iraqi insurgents may have regained a foothold in Fallujah, which has been occupied by U.S. and Iraqi forces since they regained control of the city from insurgents seven months ago.

The women were part of a team of Marines assigned to various checkpoints around Fallujah. The Marines use females at the checkpoints to search Muslim women “in order to be respectful of Iraqi cultural sensitivities,” a military statement said.

The demise of Technorati politics?

Jun 24, 2005 |

What's missing from the new and improved Technorati? It seems as if their overview ofpopular blog conversations still includes movies, books, and the top 100 -- but where is their politics page? Until the redesign, Technorati was home to a nifty slice of political...