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When to Ask - When to Google

I know people who will disagree—vehemently—with this statement, but Google is not the ultimate source of all knowledge in the universe. Neither is Yahoo, nor Ask, nor Cuil. What is the point of all this social networking if we are unable to tap that network for information from

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WP Plugin: Better Search Widget

Today I upgraded from WordPress 2.3.3 to 2.6.1. I’m such a late adopter sometimes. I had to go through and repeat a few hacks. For example, 2.3.x didn’t allow you to do get_sidebar($name), so I’d hacked the “get_sidebar(

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Exploring the Web

Last week, as I was demonstrating Ning in my office, someone asked me how I find things like this. Honestly, I could not remember when or how I discovered Ning, which prompted me to pay attention over the past week, and to ask you. (It was also a good excuse

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How do you find New Things?

In lieu of a guest post, I’m just going to ask a question: What is your best source for finding new things on the web? Do you rely on search engines and find what you need when you need it? Do you check out the sites linked by Twitter

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Do You "Designed By"?

A debate has cropped up over “designed by” links, those (hopefully) little links a designer puts on a page to take credit and get themselves some traffic and customers. On the one side, Pat Dryburgh argues word-of-mouth is superior to self-advertising: “If the design is good enough, they will ask