I was contacted yesterday by someone running technology for a small startup company, interested in seeing if I wanted to join the effort. Now, first off, I am perfectly happy with my current job and employer, but it is my policy to hear people out when they come gauging my interest. You never know, I [...]

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My sister has a new blog. Awesome!

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I am really enjoying reading Roger Ebert’s new blog, Roger Ebert’s Journal. Fanzines beget blogs is the latest post, and its awesome.
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A buddy of mine Matt Kangas picks up on his blog today to clarify what he’s doing blogging. Good to see you writing Matt.
I had a great time too during the Yahoo days… if you believe everything you read, maybe I’ll work for Yahoo again soon. Luckily I don’t (believe everything I read). It would [...]

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So I’ve decided to ditch Quantcast and Sitemeter and stick with using Google Analytics to measure traffic on tdrapeau.com. The 3 services basically do the same thing, PVs/UVs/referrals/user agents/etc, and Google is faster and nicer looking.
I figured since I was getting so much traffic, I might as well check into my analytics sources [...]

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So there is a new Guy Kawasaki site out called Alltop, and it categorizes tons of blogs and does the work to show you the 5 latest blog posts for each site, under a given category.
Thanks to Jeremy at Discovering Dad for pointing out that my humble blog here at tdrapeau.com made the Dad Category [...]

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So I saw a post on TechCrunch today about a partnership between BlogCatalog, which is a cross between a blog directory and a social network, and SezWho, which is a distribution comment reputation system.
I signed up for BlogCatalog (reminds me of when I listed my blog on Technorati), and there was an optional signup [...]

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I spent some time today on the blog, doing a bunch of things I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I signed up for Google Analytics, Sitemeter, and Quantcast. A little overkill, maybe, but I’m evaluating these traffic analysis sites to see which is the best fit for me.

I also became a member of [...]

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Who Let The Blogs Out?, by Biz Stone, is a great introduction to the world of blogs and blogging. It starts off a little slow with a broad background into blogs and blog networks, it picks up with a lot of practical information about blogging. How to use HTML/CSS to style your blog, how to [...]

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Marc Andreeson, co-founder of Netscape, has a great series of posts on startups on his blog: http://blog.pmarca.com
The latest post deals with hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives at your startup.
And Marc is yet another in a growing number of prolific figures who have blogs that have turned off their comments. Is this just a case [...]

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