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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Thrifty Domestica Thinks "Micro-blogging is for Nerds"
My good friend Rachel over at the website, Thrifty Domestica got into a discussion about micro-blogging today. When I asked her if she was going to start micro-blogging, she told me that she was going to write a post about … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Friends
Tagged blogging, Friends, micro-blogging, thrifty domestica, Twitter
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Effective Micro-blogging
It seems that social networks are the new instant messaging protocols of the internet. Remember when you had ICQ and your friend was on MSN and you had to install MSN Messenger to talk to them (or they had to install ICQ)? Remember having anywhere between three or four instant messaging applications in your system tray? Remember when applications like Trillian or Pidgin (then GAIM) came along and saved you from that mess? Well, it’s a new era and it would seem that social networks are just like those instant messaging services of yester-year. Continue reading
Online Commitments & Burn Out
The end result was I ended up stopping the regular updates on my blog, cut MySpace mainly out of my life, and even stopped Twittering (even though at the time I wasn’t doing it that much). Derek (the host of the radio show) and I even started making changes to the format of our radio show and even added a new co-host. Things have been looking up recently in the way of my online world. Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Websites
Tagged 43 folders, facebook, getting things done, Google, google reader, GTD, jaiku, lifehacker, myspace, Twitter
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