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Archives for October 2008

GOTV: Text messages vs. Robo-calls

by Jeff Hester · Oct 28, 2008

A couple years ago I helped build this site for researchers at Yale studying the effectiveness of various “get out the vote” efforts. Scott Beauchamp (a colleague from my Winfire days) dropped me a note yesterday saying the site was linked in a couple of places from a great article on Slate discussing the contrasting […]

Filed Under: Personal, Projects, Web 2.0 Tagged With: GOTV, marketing, politics, sms, text messaging

Visual changes in WordPress 2.7 revealed

by Jeff Hester · Oct 20, 2008

A few days ago, the WordPress blog unveiled the visual design of the upcoming WordPress 2.7 expected to be released in a few weeks. While this won’t offer dramatic changes to readers of this or any other WordPress-powered blog, it offers some really nice improvements for those of us who publish a blog.  Here’s a preview […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: design, UI, WordPress

Pinging your network

by Jeff Hester · Oct 11, 2008

  I got hooked on the concept of Twitter when it took off at SXSW 2007. I don’t often have time to write an essay, but I can generally manage 140 characters. Over time, I’ve tried and tested a number of Twitter-like micro-blogging networks. Jaiku, Plurk, FriendFeed. And social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook allow a similar status […]

Filed Under: Good things, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: ping.fm, social networks, twitter

Project Friday

Project Friday

by Jeff Hester · Oct 10, 2008

My schedule this week gives me this Friday to do whatever the hell I want. And today, what I want entails tackling some personal projects that have been hovering overhead for some time. And I’m using Things for the iPhone to help manage it all.  Things is a nice little commercial iPhone app that dovetails […]

Filed Under: Personal Tagged With: GTD, Projects, Things, WordPress

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