Morrie the Toupee Salesman

By Owen Byrne

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Entries from January 2009

Upcoming Speaking Gigs

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments

I’m talking next week at the Code Factory for the Ottawa eBusiness Cluster – title of the talk will be “2 Years in Web 2.0 Land: What I Learned.” Right now I’m thinking something themed around this classic Hugh MacLeod cartoon:

but I guess I need to expand it some.
Also coming up, I’ll be talking at [...]

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Tags: Uncategorized · web 2.0

Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2009-01-03 to 2009-01-10

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Diggs
User

410
mlinksva
CC licensed NINalbum is AMZN’s #1 MP3 bestseller for 2008

358
ozguralaz
How Many Digg Users Stood Up For GAZA?

300
sklein73
WSJ.com – Opinion: ‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in

289
tnerd
30 Awesomely Inspiring Logos

286
nrazaq
Divine Performing Arts: Chinese New Year Spectacular World

284
michaelpinto
How Palm Became the Next Newton

283
Kizilbash
Israeli soldiers lock up 70 people in house which is bombed

273
Jenocide312
4chan vs Digg vs [...]

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Tags: digg · digg unpromoted list

Room Of Trees

January 12th, 2009 · No Comments

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Room Of Trees, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-12-27 to 2009-01-03

January 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Sorry for being a day late with this, but things are busy at work. Getting close to launch!

Diggs
User

298
eFreedom
Congressman Feels ‘Very, Very Privileged’ To See DPA Show

297
eFreedom
Not dancing to Beijing’s tune

277
angelliberty
RON PAUL REPUBLICANS TAKE OVER LA COUNTY GOP-HUGE VICTORY!!!

269
TechnicalTalk
21 Factors that Influence First Impression for Your Website

259
israeligirl
Legal analysis of the war in Gaza

258
axelgrease
AT&T Breaks Out [...]

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Trying to think up seven things is easy…

January 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments

So I’ve been tagged by Eli White, who’s about to become a former co-worker for the second time (a weird fact by itself). The idea of the game is to come up with seven facts (if they’re strange, humorous, or embarrassing they probably make the game more fun) about myself, and then tag seven more [...]

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My 2008 Digg Hall of Fame

January 1st, 2009 · No Comments

These aren’t quite the most-dugg but not promoted stories – Digg’s API makes it difficult to exactly determine those. What I did was take my weekly “unpromoted list” and look up the current number of diggs (and ensure they weren’t promoted). It’s easy to make the case that these are by far and away the [...]

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Tags: digg · digg unpromoted list