Author Archives: Shana

Or What You Shouldn’t Do To a Theme

As some people may or may not know, I’ve been trying to create a new WordPress theme for this blog. I’m using the same base theme ad before (Thematic), and I thought it would be worth it to mention a major mistake I made. I wanted to make a HTML5 compliant theme so that the [...]
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On Behalf of Soundcloud

So, Soundcloud is asking as part of a community manager position to sum up some personal thoughts on customer service and community building.  Here they are:   1) Wait a moment before interfering.  Even if someone is complaining, it is hugely more satisfying to most people if s/he can figure out his/her own problems by [...]
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The Price of Medicine in the Internet Age

While applying to a job over the past  week (I believe it ZocDoc), I found that I was hit with an interesting idea. What happens when we review all doctors on the internet, because we’ve moved to a completely electronic medical data system? Someone I know hit upon the following book, “The Price of Everything,” [...]
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Economies of Networks

Because I am really tired of hearing the same arguments about is something overvalued, is something undervalued, will something succeed on the internet. Things on the internet, at some point, work the following way: You fill some niche, people come to you, they pay/fill some goal that leads to some cash, you expand out of [...]
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Chromebook, from a non-journalist

For those curious (or have seen me with my machine)  I have one of those CR-48s, or ChromeOS notebooks. And it is truly a combination of seriously annoying and seriously amazing. it’s essentially your browser.  But they did so many nice things to your browser that the normal browser doesn’t do. eg: pinned tabs.  I [...]
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An important message from your host

Dear all, I’m thinking of junking the theme.  Any suggestions of themes you like (or something I can build off of easily) would be appreciated.  Please leave a comment about how you want this changed (since it needs a change).
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Is this real?

Before reading the rest of this post, please go read this link.  The rest of this post will make absolutely no sense
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The Importance of the NLRB/Facebook Case

Since this has yet to be picked up by lots of people (for I enjoy reading the news late at night) The National Labor Relations Board is pursuing a case of an employee being fired because she complained about her job on Facebook.  It has a rule that any worker may talk about their work [...]
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The Matrix that is the Web

Image via Wikipedia My guess,when you the reader, sees the tiltle, is that you think I am about to talk about “The Matrix” the movie. Actually, this post is about an idea I heard about today- Emile Durkheim came up with an idea about communities.  Essentially, from what I have been hearing about, there are [...]
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Data Wars

If you haven’t heard the news- Google is getting rid of the ability to get your contacts imported into secondary web applications unless reciprocral data is shared back to Google.  This hurts Facebook the most, as it is the largest user of said data. (Primarily from your email) Some sigifigant points to be made here: 1) Despite [...]
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