Lights That Blink

Here’s our third “casting of the pod.”  It’s thirty minutes this time instead of fifteen.
Again, special thanks go to the Levelator.

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Twitter still doesn’t have their IM support up and running, but thanks to a comment on Twitter’s blog I’ve got the IMified support going now.  Behold my thrice-updated Twitter page.

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Is the much hailed Twitter just IM on steroids?
In order to test the webapp I setup an account, douglights, and tried to get the ballyhooed AIM integration working.
Bzzzt! Try again.
Apparently my new AIM buddy “TwitterIM” is offline and sending IMs to update my Twitter page is a no-go right now.

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Mike Arrington over at TechCrunch reviewed Spotplex a couple weeks back:
A new site called Spotplex launched today that arguably sorts news in a better way than Digg does. I’ve been testing the service for the last couple of weeks and like what I’ve seen.
News stories are not submitted by users, as with Digg. Instead, sites […]

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So I read most of the article by Annalee Newitz in Wired.
I can tell you exactly how a pointless blog full of poorly written, incoherent commentary made it to the front page on Digg. I paid people to do it. What’s more, my bought votes lured honest Diggers to vote for it too. All told, […]

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Greetings, O omnipotent blogiverse! I’m Jamie, the other blogging and podcasting half of Lights That Blink. Unlike Doug, I’m very new to the ways of point-and-click pontification, so it may take a while before you see regular posts from me. (Heck, it took a long time before I could work up the […]

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