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Join Me at RelationShaping

I’m pleased to announce a brand new blog that I think you’ll enjoy reading: David W. Boles’ RelationShaping ->(.  Here is our new, semiotic, logo that suggests the intention of the site:  How technology Re-Forms and Re-Shapes our Mind-Body memes in a Relational Universe and it indicates “The Spear of Technology Piercing the Body In Situ ->(.”

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Proof of Life: Dying to Blog

You and I know blogging is a job — and a genetic obsession — and now, thanks to The New York Times, everyone else knows blogging is killing us all.

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Trilling Twitter and Tumblr

I have looked at Twitter and Tumblr — and I confess I do not understand the fervent joy of their technological pull.

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Blog Explosion Implodes in a Gutter of Dust

One of the greatest blog traffic exchanges of all time — Blog Explosion — is now officially dead from a purposeful implosion, a non-caring attitude and an inability to respond to user service requests.

There was a time when Blog Explosion ruled the Blog World. You’d meet new friends, get lots of new visitors and live high on the traffic hog.

Today, Blog Explosion is the gutter of a ghost town.  No one answers technical support inquiries.  No new blog approvals are happening.  No one is there.  The store is empty.  The well is dry.  The town is dust.

We weep for the loss.

Celebrating Static Pages

There is nothing wrong with creating a plain text, static, non-MySQL webpage that serves as a personal online portal for identification and being.

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Rotating Image Header Tutorial for WordPress.com

We used to run the CUTLINE theme here on your favorite Urban Semiotic and I wanted to bring back our famous Rotating Image Headers that change with every fresh re-load of a page if you happen to be using that theme.

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Air Force Analysis of Your Blog

In a haunted harkening back to my bog article last Friday, You are an Electronic Jigsaw Puzzle, the Air Force is funding a new study of blogs to “provide information analysts and warfighters with invaluable help in fighting the war on terrorism.” In the 650-word press release announcing the new Air Force blog analysis, the word warfighter appears twice.

Dr. Brian E. Ulicny, senior scientist, and Dr. Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, president, Versatile Information Systems Inc., Framingham, Mass., will receive approximately $450,000 in funding for the 3-year project entitled Automated Ontologically-Based Link Analysis of International Web Logs for the Timely Discovery of Relevant and Credible Information.
It can be challenging for information analysts to tell what’s important in blogs unless you analyze patterns, Ulicny said. Patterns include the content of the blogs as well as what hyperlinks are contained within the blog.

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