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This map (from xkcd.com) requires no comment:

Tried googling the expression “michael arrington is destroying america”  - and my post was the first listed result. I suppose it is good news for Mr. Arrington, per my position on the very long tail

Checked out this little journal on Alexa. Accounding to their Rating Page:
Traffic Rank for raydeck.com: 3,334,270
Sweet - I’m down to the low millions!

For those wondering about how technologists are created, I offer The Evolution of a Programmer. Of particular interest is the size of each PRE section. Makes me think about Pascal.

From Dharmesh Shah, How Many Startup Employees Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?
I feel torn between this (especially when I am volunteering someone else at the keyboard):
 Developer Type:  Well, it should only take one, but our founder insisted on using Python instead of Ruby On Rails to build the product and so it’s going […]

Pierre exemplifies the modern technology business consultant, and he held a presentation on  Ingredients for Web 2.0 Success at BarCamp Boston that everyone should see. Any resemblance to Alexis Ohanian is of course completely coincidental.

In my previous post I said:
it’s in service to the economics, and to the customers, rather than trying to get the ego-stroke.
Who am I kidding? This whole blog (ugh), to the extent that I am keeping it public (to marginal effect), is an ego-stroke. I need to re-read my own warning from last year.

Scott Maxwell has found the “Coolest AJAX UI ever built!“. And I completely agree at both levels of his post.

Technorati ranks this little journal at #692,761 in the world as of today.

Or so The Interweb tells me.
Update: The link no longer works, so I am no longer part of the great white north.