Ernesto on December 27th, 2008

David building his first circuit boards. Awesome!
Originally uploaded by Ernesto and Kristen Burden
A quiet Saturday afternoon — just right for some geeky (and I mean that with the happiest sentiment!) father and son circuit boarding fun!

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Ernesto on December 21st, 2008

Yesterday’s snowy long run provided two positive results to experiments that I thought worth sharing. First, I found out that if you fill your water bottles up with hot water and wear them inside your shell, they won’t ice up. (They froze solid on me the week before.) Not sure if I made [...]

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Ernesto on December 20th, 2008

It’s still snowing.  Been doing that since yesterday.  And it was about twelve degrees when I woke up at 5:15 this morning. It’s pretty likely that this morning’s long run, training for a winter marathon that or no, would have been in the gym, on a treadmill watching television, if it hadn’t been for the [...]

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Ernesto on December 20th, 2008

One of the best parts about in-town living is the great neighbors we have.  And though we all get along and really like each other, we don't see them all that often.  Busy lives, different schedules.  But almost every time there's a good snow, you're sure to find neighbors from two or three of the [...]

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Glaser’s guide to alternative business models for newspapers
Good roundup of the different business model experiments newspaper organizations have been conducting…
(tags: newspapers journalism media internet businessmodel revenue)

Bivngs Study on The Use of the Internet by America’s Largest Newspapers
Percentage using user-generated content doubled from 2007 to 2008. Sites allowing comments also doubled. 10 percent of papers have [...]

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Ernesto on December 18th, 2008

Baby Blogging: 8 Trendy Tools Compared
When Baby has just got to start blogging and twittering early…
(tags: social blog parents)

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Ernesto on December 17th, 2008

Search Engine Marketer’s Journal: 2008 Column Recap
Some useful info here.
(tags: search seo sem reference)

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Ernesto on December 16th, 2008

10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs | Smashing Magazine
Some nice, simple to implement UI suggestions.
(tags: webdesign Usability web-design)

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Ernesto on December 15th, 2008

Pew: Most Will Access Internet Via Mobile By 2020
Media Post writes about a revent Pew study that reports most will use mobile devices for Web access by 2020. Would have been hard for me to imagine using the cell phones I had in the past … but since switching to the LG DARE (a touchscreen [...]

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Ernesto on December 14th, 2008

35 Web Tools For Writers
Roundup of 35 Web tools for writers, including word processing, blogging, community, etc.
(tags: writers blogging writer web web2.0 tools resources)

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