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  • My column has been republished by a sex site

    I spotted this before but I just showed it to colleagues in the office and forgot about it. I got another email recently telling me that my column on porn in Globe’s mobile blogs had been reprinted by the Asian Sex Gazette. Here’s the link (it’s not safe for work and may contain images some…

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  • Using activeCollab to manage blog posts, article ideas

    I’m spending a lot of time in my activeCollab installation these past weeks. ActiveCollab is an open source project management and collaboration script that had been described as a clone of the popular Basecamp service (but I think it’s much more than that). CREATING FORMS. ActiveCollab allows you to create forms that automatically add data…

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  • Track your blog visitors’ sessions with Clicky

    If you’re still waiting for that MeasureMap invitation, don’t fret. A new service has opened that will more than make up for the time (what is it now? several months?) you spent waiting for the still unsent service invitations. Clicky is a new service created “to complement” other website metrics tools. What Clicky does is…

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  • Running a web server, WordPress on my phone

    I was finally able to run an Apache, PHP, MySQL server on my Sony Ericsson K750i. I did it on my second attempt, the first was disastrous, and that’s putting it mildly, as I crashed my phone and I had to reformat its memory card, wiping out several photos I haven’t been able to save…

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  • Paying bloggers to write about products, services

    (Note: This post is not part of the ReviewMe program). I got an e-mail early this morning from the people behind Text Link Ads (referral link). The e-mail said this site was pre-approved for their newly launched ReviewMe advertising program. I was intrigued because I never signed up for the program. I was set to…

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