Archive for the 'Hive Mind' Category

• 09.16.08 Scrippets for Blogger

  The Scrippets plug-in for WordPress seems to be working well for self-hosted blogs, but it’s no use to folks who use services like Blogger, Tumblr and the like. For people on these on these platforms, the cost of simplicity is customization — they’re easy to use and hard to modify.

  But in an effort [...]

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• 08.22.08 Scrippets, PHP and a call to coders

  UPDATED. See below.

  For the past four years, I’ve been including little blocks of formatted screenplay examples in my posts, such as…

  INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY As the phone RINGS, Gary dozily reaches one dirty-socked foot off the couch to sit up — and suddenly finds himself falling. He lands hard, dazed. We REVEAL that the [...]

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• 02.14.08 Facebook, a hive mind question

  Once upon a time, I had a MySpace page, to which I happily added anyone as a friend. But right around hitting the 1,000 friend mark, I realized my patience for the site’s embedded idiocy — the 1998-style formatting, cheesy graphics, junior high demographics — was finite. I left it sitting fallow,1 even while recognizing [...]

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