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  • Dean Allen

    I did not know Dean Allen. But you couldn’t have been a blogger in the early 2000s without coming across, and admiring and swooning over, Textism – Dean’s blog. I was no exception. In fact, I was still subscribed to Textism’s RSS feed until I heard the news. Likely a 15 or so year old…

  • Finished Watchers by Dean Koontz. ⭐⭐⭐ – Odd. Seemed like two stories in one and oversimplified narrative. But, it had a few tense moments.

  • Everyone should write (or, blog?)

    Deanna Mascle wrote on her blog on why all teachers should write. In it she says this about why students should write in every class every day: Reflective writing at the beginning of a class or before a lesson can help students access existing knowledge and build a foundation for new information. Writing activities during…

  • Why blog?

    Deanna Mascle on her blog in February of this year: Blogging isn’t for everyone, but as I must write to think and process life, blogging is a gift (What Blogging Taught Me). I hope my blog benefits others, but I cannot measure the positive impact blogging has had on my life. Then, yesterday, in a follow-up…

  • Things I saw this week #3: September 7, 2013

    I’m vacationing on the beach in South Carolina with family so this week’s post is a day late and a little lighter than usual. I’m looking forward to getting back at it next week. Video: The new trailer for Gravity. I’m very much looking forward to this movie if for no other reason than to…

  • Lucasfilm, ILM, and Skywalker Sound sold to Disney

    The price? Four Instagrams. Dean J. Robinson: Lots of people I follow on twitter [sic] (pretty much all of them actually) are Star Wars fans of some description – and the general consensus is that while they are quite surprised by the announcement they don’t necessarily have negative feeling about it. In fact many seem…

  • Tumblr, audience, and engagement

    The success of The Watercolor Gallery thus far has been extremely gratifying. I really enjoy the effort it takes (and believe me it is an effort) to find art to feature, to dig for the details of a painting or an artist online, and to describe what inspires me about it.And so far that effort…

  • The Watercolor Gallery finds an audience.

    I was going to wait until The Watercolor Gallery hit 150 or even 200 pieces in its archive before I gave another update but several key things are going on and I want them documented. For context see the announcement post, the 30 pieces update, the tools of The Watercolor Gallery, and the post celebrating…

  • WPAPI.org – A stats API for WordPress.org hosted plugins and themes

    WPAPI.org, the brain-child of Dean Robinson (who has been [mentioned a few times here on First Initial, Last Name](http://cdevroe.com/?s=dean robinson)), is an easy to use stats API for plugins and themes hosted on WordPress.org. Simple idea, perfectly executed.

  • Why you don’t need a URL shortening service if you use WordPress

    I was in the mood for a long post title. Sue me. My thoughts on URL shortening services are pretty public but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have a need for them. I prefer Bit.ly over any other URL shortening services that I’ve used to-date. With Tr.im dying I thought that there was always…

  • Hahlo 4 – coming soon

    Dean J. Robinson, the developer behind what is easily the best iPhone web application for Twitter, recently gave us a glimpse of what we should expect from the next version of Hahlo. He lists ten things we should know about the next version – and here are three that I’m really looking forward to. Better…

  • An odd Safari mobile tab bug

    While my friend Chris Masto, whom I met through Viddler, and I waited to go to lunch on Thursday in New York City he mentioned to me how much he likes to use Hahlo as his Twitter application of choice on his iPhone. Chris was probably the tenth person in a week to tell me…