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Selected highlights from the “Promoting your blog” session at Northern Voice: Jeremy Wright says there are advantages in having highly topic-focused blogs. Mixing information can mean you lose the kind of focus that attracts both visitors and potential...

The host with the most

A quick plug for my web host, Ace of Space: This week, when Alex upgraded her WordPress installation to the dazzling new version 1.5, something went wrong… and the backup she’d made turned out to be useless. Suddenly her blog was gone, gone, gone, with no...

Dear valued customer…

My partner just got back the very latest in unhelpful replies from the customer service department of a big software company. The first half was the e-mail equivalent of “Your call is important to us. Please continue to hold.” The second half… well,...

Suddenly sexy. (A modest proposal)

I don’t know what I did to trigger this. I’m wearing my hair just a touch shorter; I’ve been flossing a little more vigorously; I have a new pair of pants that flatters me in exactly the right places. Whatever has changed, I have apparently become...

Happy 21st, Macintosh!

Back in the winter of 1984, Steve Jobs got up on a stage and pulled a little miracle out of a bag: the Apple Macintosh. The event was preserved for posterity by Scott Kastner, and ODTAA is (or, rather, was) pleased to mirror the video here. Twenty-one days (one for...
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