Technology
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A Maine Impact Thanksgiving
Today, we’ve got a special episode of Maine Impact up in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Three Mainers- State Rep Emily Cain, author Jim Baumer, and blogger Michelle Souliere- were kind enough to call in to the Maine Impact public voice-mail line to submit exclusive audio essays on the topic of “being thankful for Maine.”…
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Source: Amazon will offer Xbox 360 bundle for $100 [Updated]
As initially reported by TechCrunch on Friday, jasonclarke.org can now confirm from a source with knowledge of the situation that Amazon.com will soon begin selling the Xbox 360 gaming system for just $100 in time for the holiday shopping rush. The move drops the price of the “Core”, or base model, of Microsoft’s popular gaming…
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Announcing Maine Impact
After much hard work, I’m pleased to announce my latest project! It’s called Maine Impact, and it’s a podcast covering news, politics, and technology with a focus on Maine and an eye towards the world at large. My good friend Lance Dutson of the notorious and heralded Maine Web Report has graciously agreed to lend…
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Testing Windows Live Writer
This is a test of Windows Live Writer, a new desktop blogging interface just released by Microsoft. Get your own right here. Here’s what the “Insert Map” function is like: Interesting…it offered to let me specify margins, but it doesn’t appear to be respecting that. The biggest thing I want out of a desktop blogging…
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Moorelies.com is back!
After a nearly seven-month hiatus, my political weblog Moorelies.com has emerged from retirement anew. This time around (major version 3 by my account), I’m taking a backseat and operating primarily as publisher while two new bloggers, Chris Hata and Mike Faulkingham, take over daily posting duties. Please head over to the new Moorelies.com and check…
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My entry into ‘The Office’ promo contest
NBC and YouTube are holding an open compeition for people to submit :20 promos for “The Office“, recently nominated for 3 Emmys including Best Comedy. Up to 10 winners will have their promos aired on NBC this fall. I’m a huge Office fan, so with the help of my brother-in-law and my wife, I submitted…
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Good luck getting Words in Edgewise
I hope to be the first to link to my friend Bob Cox’s new blog, WordsInEdgewise.tv, with good wishes. After four years, he’s abandoning The National Debate (along with the logo I designed for him- sad) and picking up with a new blog about his work with the Media Bloggers Association (Disclosure: I’m on the…
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Maine’s blogging community has no room for anonymous comments
It may not be well known to the rest of the country, but here in Maine, we have a reputation for sticking together and helping our fellow citizens out. It troubles me, then, to see a fellow resident- and web developer- apparently harassing another Maine web developer. I’m talking here about Rob Landry, owner of…
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Small steps for identity
I recently updated my About page with a list of links to each of my online identities at places like Flickr, del.icio.us, LinkedIn, and others. It’s a first-crack effort at being transparent about my online identity at various locations. As I wrote this past January, identity online is an emerging issue, though it hasn’t quite…