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#542 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:35 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] new tactic from the inscrutible spammers 		hipsmart
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Okay, so now I'm getting spam with veiled Isaac Asimov references in the subject line, like "Custom is a religion life so while the Foundation versus Hober Mallow." That's strange. I guess it's catching my eye, so maybe it's effective.

I'm still not going to open it.

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#541 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Oct 5, 2006 2:18 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] big idea: The Bitchun Society 		hipsmart
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Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kindom come alive at The Bitchun Society
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#540 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:21 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] badge: squirl 		hipsmart
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Non-interactive badge. Widgets coming soon?
Also, oh, man, I find myself not especially motivated to accept the data-entry position Squirl offers me to catalog my stuff.
x-posted on web2.0depot.net

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#539 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:24 am
Subject: [HipSmart] web tool: GroupLoop 		hipsmart
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With its page title, "GroupLoop â„¢ - Centralize, organize. Keep your group in the loop!" you can see GroupLoop is an online collaborative manager. It seems to me it falls somewhere between 37signals' Backpack (more of a personal organizer) and Basecamp (project manager). I may give GroupLoop at try to see what it's like, though I've been planning on using Backpack for my next small group project. I'm already invested in Backpack and it will keep my group stuff right next to my personal stuff.
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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 9/22/2006 11:24:21 PM

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#538 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:16 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] badge: Twitter 		hipsmart
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#537 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:18 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] thoughts on the convenience of the new iPod shuffle 		hipsmart
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The super-small footprint, integrated clip, and anodized aluminum casing make the new iPod shuffle hott (that's with two 't's). However, the new suffle dock leaves something to be desired.
It's included, which is nice, but it's required, which is not. I'd like to get a MacBook in the near future, so my computing will become mobile. That means if I want to sync a new shuffle, I'll have to connect the USB dock before dropping the shuffle in the dock--with the older shuffle, you could just slap that sucker into a USB port. Of course, if you have a desktop, like I currently do, it's no big thing; a dock might even be nice; indeed, I spent $30 to buy the old shuffle dock so I could stop having to reach around the back of my Mac and find a USB port.
A more glaring flaw is with the shuffle's ability to store files. If you want to use the new suffle as a USB drive, you'll now have to cart around the dock, too, to connect to other systems. That's a serious drop in usefullness. Of course, I don't use my current old shuffle as a USB drive because doing so causes a major loss of stability (I'd have to do a system restore almost weekly when it started locking up).
One of the major selling points of iPods is their ease of use. Other mp3 players I've owned have been a real hassle to use. These little issues are only slightly nagging, but still, that's a step backwards for Apple.
xposted on my iPod blog

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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 9/22/2006 10:18:36 AM

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#536 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:38 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] mashup: Flickr + business cards = MOO 		hipsmart
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MOO has launched to great fanfare, and without actually having used it yet, it's probably deserved. Glossy, half-business-card-sized cards with your flickr photos on one side and some contact info on the back--pretty neat! For a design professional, these should make for some distinctive business cards, and they'll be appealing in lots of other cases, too: bands, events, real estate.
Once I get my hands on some, I'll update with a review of the quality and the experience.
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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 9/21/2006 03:38:35 PM

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#535 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:59 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] web tool: Weebly 		hipsmart
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You'll need an invitation to join the beta of Weebly - Website Creation Made Easy, but that shouldn't be too hard--drop your email in the form on the front page, and the creator of Weebly will probably get back to you right away.
Weebly is a very slick AJAX WYSIWYG editor. It's incredibly stylish and easy to use.
I've just started playing with it, and it's admittedly a beta; so, then, my hiccups: the text fields (really the main thing you will be adding to a site) won't render JavaScript, so you get a funky looking mess like http://esswedl495.weebly.com/. Also, you'll notice that publishing is to their own server, not via FTP--kinda like the Blogger Beta, which forces you to use BlogSpot servers. Speaking of Blogger, here's one more limitation of Weebly: we're talking static pages.
Still, looks promising.
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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 9/21/2006 10:59:34 AM

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#534 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:07 am
Subject: [HipSmart] mashup: BookMooch meets LibraryThing 		hipsmart
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So, I've been reading a lot lately (and I should be talking about that more here), all thanks to BookMooch, a very cool book swapping website. More on that later.
It's still hand-driven at this point, but I like the idea of using LibraryThing's bookshelf and tags to display my BookMooch inventory.
LibraryThing has an awesome Universal Import function that can grab all the ISBNs off my BookMooch inventory and add them to my bookshelf. Then, it's a simple matter of using their widget to output the covers of the books I've tagged bookmooch (automatically done on import, natch):

Unfortunately, the cover links lead to Amazon, not my BookMooch inventory, should someone want to mooch a book. Another annoyance: my LibraryThing shelf will have to be manually updated when I do give away a book.
I'll have to see what I can do about that.
xposted on HipSmart, Wrybrarian.com

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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 9/20/2006 04:14:00 PM

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#533 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:38 pm
Subject: [erikswedlund.com] shiny new toy 		hipsmart
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Lots of activity over at web2.0depot.net, a new blog where I'm testing out all the nifty badges and live content you can get nowadays.
xposted to HipSmart

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Posted by erik to erikswedlund.com at 9/20/2006 01:38:18 PM

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#532 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:37 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] badge overload 		hipsmart
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If I ever get around to putting all these web 2.0 badges in my sidebar, it's gonna get busy (okay, busier) around here.









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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 9/12/2006 11:29:01 AM

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#531 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:37 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] shiny new toy: web2.0depot.net 		hipsmart
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Lots of activity over at web2.0depot.net, a new blog where I'm testing out all the nifty badges and live content you can get nowadays.
xposted to ErikSwedlund.com

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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 9/20/2006 01:37:36 PM

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#530 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:32 am
Subject: [HipSmart] fit news 		hipsmart
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More web 2.0 fun at traineo.
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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 9/11/2006 08:32:21 PM

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#529 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Fri Sep 8, 2006 7:22 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] tricksy 		hipsmart
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There are just too many web 2.0 tabs open in my firefox! I'm drowning in a sea of gradients.
I remember seeing someone's suggestion on digg that you could use Google's personalized homepage as a Google Desktop-like proxy with Firefox on a Mac, by loading the bookmark in your sidebar, and arranging all the modules on your IG into the left column. I tried that out for a day or two, but wasn't thrilled (though it certainly seemed like a great idea). The problems were that I had too many modules, and couldn't lower the font size in the sidebar; lots of scrolling.
Now I've had a flash of my own: load meebo in the sidebar! That sucker can be skinnied right up, and I can have my buddy list always visible. Every once in a while I need to resize to grab a chat box that's popped up too wide, but the meebo virtual desktop is very flexible.
I followed someone else's suggestion a few weeks ago to set meebo as my active desktop on my Windows machine at work, but that also failed to impress. It was always hidden behind my pile of maximized windows, and there's something flaky about the active desktop connection that caused meebo to log out on an annoying regular basis.

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#528 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Fri Sep 8, 2006 7:23 pm
Subject: [erikswedlund.com] neat trick to amuse myself 		hipsmart
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There are just too many web 2.0 tabs open in my firefox! I'm drowning in a sea of gradients.
I remember seeing someone's suggestion on digg that you could use Google's personalized homepage as a Google Desktop-like proxy with Firefox on a Mac, by loading the bookmark in your sidebar, and arranging all the modules on your IG into the left column. I tried that out for a day or two, but wasn't thrilled (though it certainly seemed like a great idea). The problems were that I had too many modules, and couldn't lower the font size in the sidebar; lots of scrolling.
Now I've had a flash of my own: load meebo in the sidebar! That sucker can be skinnied right up, and I can have my buddy list always visible. Every once in a while I need to resize to grab a chat box that's popped up too wide, but the meebo virtual desktop is very flexible.
I followed someone else's suggestion a few weeks ago to set meebo as my active desktop on my Windows machine at work, but that also failed to impress. It was always hidden behind my pile of maximized windows, and there's something flaky about the active desktop connection that caused meebo to log out on an annoying regular basis.

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#527 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:14 pm
Subject: [erikswedlund.com] new site 		hipsmart
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Climbing back on the horse, I have designed a new website as a test bed/refresher course in web design. The Cubs Anti-Magic Number tracks how many Chicago Cubs losses until they are mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. Give it a swing.

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Posted by erik to erikswedlund.com at 8/15/2006 05:12:00 PM

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#526 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:07 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] hip news: BookMooch 		hipsmart
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Okay, I'm liking BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books much better than BookCrossing so far. The local community and "random acts of kindness" aspects of BookCrossing are pretty appealing, but it's hard to feel part of a Whuffie economy when you never find any books for yourself and no one finds the books you leave out (or at least they don't visit the website to update the tracking if they do find one).
By contrast, I joined BookMooch last week, and today received my first book, with two more on the way--and I've already sent out two. I have emailed with a user in Austria, who doesn't mind the postage to send me a book. Interactivity abounds!

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#525 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:51 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] loveable losers: Cubs Anti-Magic Number 		hipsmart
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Two things: check out Cubs Anti-Magic Number, a site I just created to track how long it will be until the Cubs are eliminated from the playoffs; and, if you dig it, why not digg it?

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Posted by erik to HipSmart at 8/15/2006 01:51:17 PM

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#524 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Tue Aug 15, 2006 2:28 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] hips news: hanes "shot blocker" commercial 		hipsmart
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Why is Michael Jordan being so mean to Kevin Bacon? And isn't that totally goal tending?

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#523 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Aug 3, 2006 4:12 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] smart news: grumpy vikings get it wrong 		hipsmart
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This Business Week story, "Apple defends iTunes-iPod compatibility," details the efforts of the Scandanavian countries to force Apple to allow music files purchased from the iTunes Music Store to play on third-party devices. Huh? Do we complain that Gillette's Mach 3 razor blades only fit in Gillette's Mach 3 razor? How about this: I'm pissed that other online music stores sell crappy wma files that won't go on my iPod.Good grief, I feel awful this morning.

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#522 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:03 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] smart news: save money with your left-over cotton-gin trash! 		hipsmart
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Cool! A biomass pellet heater for my lakeside cabin: Wired News: Eco-Heating System for the Lazy. Now I just have to get a lakeside cabin.

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#521 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Fri Jul 7, 2006 4:49 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] hip news: tiny living 		hipsmart
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Extremely cool apartment, especially for only 426 sq. feet, wins Apartment Therapy's smallest coolest apartments 2006 contest: Finalist #3: David Im's OneSpace

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#520 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Fri Jun 9, 2006 3:39 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] rolling fury, in a timely, organized manner 		hipsmart
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I've created a Google Calendar for the Windy City Rollers, the Chicago women's flat-track rollery derby league. You can add the listing of their bouts to your calendar with this nifty button:


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#519 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:14 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] the continuing adventures of Erik Swedlund, urban proofreader 		hipsmart
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Wikipedia has an awful lot of information; it's almost impossible to read an article without branching off on a tangental link. Ted Nelson's wet dream!
From out of the endless non-authoritative information and petty editing comes my favorite petty editing topic: the serial comma. I'm firmly on the side of Misters Strunk and White.

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#518 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:30 am
Subject: [erikswedlund.com] checking in 		hipsmart
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Since it's been forever since I've updated this site, everything here is woefully out of date. Say hello to the old me!
The latest dish: I'm going back to school, pursuing a Masters degree in computer science. At the moment, I'm auditing an intro to programming class (Java); real school starts in the fall.
Hopefully, this will mean actual projects of interest, instead of the hacked-up ephemera currently on this site. More updates to come (within the next two years, if the pattern holds).

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#517 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:15 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] gaming bits: boardgame product placement 		hipsmart
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Thanks to BoardGameNews, I found this article, "Brandtique Of The Week: The Games Hasbro Plays," which details some recent product placements on TV. Notably, all the games that show up are from Hasbro, the only company that could afford this. While I generally prefer the games of lesser-known game companies (with the exception of a few titles Hasbro produces under its Avalon Hill banner), I applaud the prime-time exposure of boardgames. The appearance of Battleship on How I Met Your Mother (featured prominently in the linked article) was a hilarious scene on a show that I watch weekly.
Most of the product placements don't feature so prominently in the show's plot. I've set a wishlist on my TiVo to automatically record any show that has the words "board game" or "boardgame" in its description, but that doesn't amount to much; the only things that my TiVo catches are replays of the movie Clue and one episode of Everybody Loves Raymond that had Raymond and his wife trying to spice up their bedroom life with a "sexy" boardgame.

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#516 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Fri Feb 3, 2006 4:54 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] hip news: entertaining list of uses for your iPod 		hipsmart
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iPod youPod wePod is a nice-looking clearinghouse of entertaining and frivolous uses for your iPod, such as a toilet dock or an antique stereoscopic viewer retrofitted to hold two color iPods.
Crossposted to my iPod blog.

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#515 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:00 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] smart news: just when i need it 		hipsmart
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So the thing I'm doing is this: going back to school. Starting in the fall, I'll be pursuing a Master's of Computer Science degree. The work starts now, however, as I need to get a solid base in programming first, something I've never had.
This provides me with a perfect excuse to shop for a new computer. A sleek, graduate-student, hanging-out in coffee shops kind of computer. A laptop computer, something I've never had. Which is why I was watching the coverage of Steve Jobs's keynote at MWSF keenly on Tuesday. Thanks to my buddy C.K. at TUAW for the blow-by-blow.
So the introduction of the MacBook has me split. Pre-Tuesday, I planned on getting a 12-inch PowerBook, the ultra-portable high-end Apple laptop. Ooooh, but the MacBook is four times faster! It's also heavier and bigger and more expensive, without a 12-inch option, and it won't fit in my brand-new messenger bag. Damn, now I have to think about this some more.
Or I could just wait a little bit longer. According to The Cult of Mac Blog article "The Inside Dope on Steve Jobs' Weird Keynote," when Jobs pulled his famous, "One more thing," he wanted to say, "Several more things." Still to come: more things. Here's hoping things include a smaller MacBook.

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#514 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Thu Jan 5, 2006 5:22 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] hip and smart news: tabletop video board game 		hipsmart
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From a post at BoardGameGeek, I found the link to this article: News - Philips unveils mad thingy /// Eurogamer. It's a sweet, interactive horizontal screen set up to play boardgames. If they add the viewing-angle dependent technology I saw at Wired NextFest last year, load it up with lots of games and have more for download, then sell it for under $1000, I'll buy it. Like that would happen.

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#513 From: erik <erik@...>
Date: Fri Dec 2, 2005 4:41 pm
Subject: [HipSmart] smart news: no wake zone 		hipsmart
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This Wired News article, "Sun Powers Loon-y Pontoon Boat," points out a number of advantages of a solar boat:
  • No cost for gas
  • No water pollution, which is huge
  • Efficiency of electric motor in a steady load situation
  • Most people only go boating on days with nice weather
For those who want to go faster than a 10mph party barge, why not try renewable wind power? That's seemed to work for boats for, oh, the last few thousand years.
If, as the designer of the 20-foot solar pontoon hopes, a commercial model can be sold for under $25,000, it'll be competitive with similarly sized party boats (which sell for something like $10,000-$25,000).

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