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My 2010 Web Resolution -- Buy Fewer URLs

I need to exercise a little impulse control with my domain purchases this year. In the excitement of finding out that ArtorShit.com or bloggerhea.com are actually available, (seriously though, can you believe those were still available?) I have to yank the reigns and say 'hey little miss long on ideas, short on time, are you actually going to do something with Web-estate?' My 2009 URL-buying ...

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Project Rant Adds a Voice to Venting

Not to complain, but all the complaining on the internet makes me wish that the recession would rage on, giving bloggers upset about the tone in the waitresses voice just now, something to really cry about! Project Rant mines the web for these day-to-day diatribes and hands them to actory types to reenact on slow loading video. The title, Project Rant may sound aggressive, it's not, they feel ...

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Tumblr's Reblog This Film Festival

Short film festivals are normally an exercise in patience that cause you to seriously audit your definition of the word "short." Last week there was an exception: Tumblr's Reblog This Film Festival at Cinespace in Hollywood. This might have been Tumblr's first festival but they know what they're doing i.e. open bar, open heart. ...

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From Blogs to Books - A History of the Web in Print

digg_url = 'http://www.urlesque.com/2009/10/14/blog-books/'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; As the blog-olution reaches critical mass, the desire to make sense of a million confessions, reblogs and old photos tumbling over our screen has given rise to single-topic blogs that easily categorize and organize them for us. And with these blogs springing up in multiples by the day and attracting large ...

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