My kid is 5 years old. She's forming as a human being. That "set-by-six" personality ...

My mind is turning towards things like extracting most likely target keywords from websites. Now, ...

Okay the selfie-videos that I needed to shoot to help me clarify my thoughts and ...

Hello Again World! Today's my second full day in my office as an independent consultant. ...

Hello World! It's 7:00 PM, and I jokingly like to say that I'm starting day-2 ...

It's time for one-handed morning writing, wishing once again I had a Dictaphone built into ...

It's Monday morning and I'm wearing Google Glass again on the subway on my way ...

Times are changing, and I'm switching from the field of search engine optimization (SEO) that ...

Okay, everything is percolating in my mind, and it's time to connect some dots. I ...

Back in the era of when broadcast television reigned supreme—say, early 1950s to late 1980s—most ...

I did my first subway ride wearing Google Glass beginning to end coming home from ...

Today I assemble my prescription Google Glass lens frames into one piece. I'll have the ...

It's time for me to write on the quality vs. quantity of content question. It ...

I'm going to try one handed typing on my Note 3. Now that I have ...

NOTE: This is an epic post that builds up Python code bit by bit for ...

NOTE: Scroll down for the code including a bash script using getopts, command piping, git, ...

Note: This is an daily work journal entry extracted from a new DVCS on a ...

This article addresses an old favorite issue of mine: fixed-positions versus floating positions for user ...

It goes without saying that life is different when you have a kid. There are ...

For personal branding online and eventual alternative income purposes, I need to work on what ...

Okay, this is the hardest part of the day. Down to REAL work, where I ...

Progress must be iterative. Momentum must be cumulative. Together, amazing things can be accomplished in ...

Okay, I've got 3 tablet computers in my daily life now—and none of them's an ...

My Dell Venue 8 Pro 8-inch Windows tablet will be waiting for me when when ...

Okay as per my earlier experience when I was trying to make the original Levinux ...

dEvery morning, I should force myself to read the stuff at the top of my ...

There is a conundrum in the realm of technology, tools, and achieving the sort of ...

Hmmmm. It's Monday morning, about 10:45 AM. I'm coming back after one of the most ...

Okay, I stand at a cross-roads, in my career, in my personal life with a ...

Note: With this post, the Google App Engine becomes one of my WordPress blogging categories. ...

Okay, A HUGELY IMPORTANT ASPECT of the way I work is that the particular server ...

Now at long last, the OAuth 2 code login example on Levinux, using the GAE-like ...

Okay, that last post is what I can accomplish with about 35 minutes of thought-work. ...

I made a great breakthrough yesterday in my way towards programming Google Glass intelligently, and ...

Note: Many days turn out to be a "nested sub-problem". This is life. The trick ...

I am Mike Levin, the SEO… but not lately, not so much. This article will ...

Things don't happen overnight... or shall I say, things that take layered on -skills and ...

I've been at every New York Maker Faire now, except for the first year—and that's ...

Wow, so I haven't really done any meaningful coding yet on Google Glass, but I'm ...

It's interesting that unless I clear my WordPress cache, a just-published daily journal article is ...

Make today count... again! Yesterday had some fantastic parts. Start by summarizing your projects. Do ...

Okay, get to it. First off, avoid distraction like the plague. Oh, but I can't! ...

Hello World! That's a great way to open my personal work journal entries each day. ...

 Note: This particular work journal posting goes back across many days worth of journal entries, ...

Note: This article is heady stuff for the wanna-be-programmer. So, turn back now for your ...

No. Here's the problem: Google glass is designed with a certain philosophy and pragmatism. They are ...

Happy 15th birthday Google. You now throw off the favorite way I had to describe ...

This is my second first full day with Google Glass. Can day-1 not count? It ...

Note: Get ready for the geekiest of geeky thinking out loud. On the whole, this ...

Rules governing organization of information and things is one of the most important concerns of ...

Note: This is a REALLY long one that mixes stream-of-consciousness with actual coding and implementation ...

Note: This is another long, rambling, edge-of-nonsense stream of consciousness thought of the type I ...

Birth: "What? Why?" So, people search. Really, all people search. Some people search for better. ...

Good morning, Monday Morning. How much control over the media content you have to share ...

Okay, it's 3:30 PM, and I'll be leaving at 5:30 PM today, per a request ...

Okay, starting a new day. New daily journal entry. It's still only 9:17 AM, and ...

Fair warning to everyone, this isn't a refined & edited blog entry. You are about ...

All copies of Tiger code right now are on Rackspace. It used to be spread ...

Hello Thursday. Let's see if you can put your real-life implementation coding where your daily ...

Note: This is another of those rambling daily work journal posts. In it, I re-think ...

Ahhh. @j... A new day, a new journal entry. There's so much I need to ...

Warning: this post falls somewhere in between a rambling daily journal technical minutiae post, and ...

This post is not an edited article. It goes back to my raw daily work ...

I stepped down from the role of being a Director of SEO (search engine optimization) ...

I had chosen a worthy goal for myself several weeks back in determining to become ...

I'm not proud of this. Oh wait, I sort-of am. Here's a story I've only ...

Update 2/6/2017: After a few 6 year-old tantrums, this neighbor called Child Services, and I am ...

Everything's in flux! To me, this is the most interesting sort of time in my ...

Ah, welcome again to my daily work diary. Things got rough again recently with the ...

I need to get myself more productive on a daily basis at work. This is ...

Bear with me a moment. I'll get to the squishy wizard stuff. Well, a new ...

I'm going to try to move my daily journal entry once again back into the ...

I have to test my Levinux tiny virtual Linux server distribution on a lot of ...

I've started teaching a friend to become technical—someone who for years now has demonstrated the ...

I finally bit the bullet and read Nate Silver's Bayesian prediction book that's made so ...

Are you getting ready to learn to program? The purpose of this article is to ...

Note: After all that work, I'm temporarily giving up on compiling my own QEMU binaries. ...

I'm a New Yorker. It took me eight years and three jobs and a wife ...

Update: Mr Sucro just passed away, Sunday August 10. He touched many lives by taking ...

I read Verner Vinge's Rainbows End last last year, and it kicked my ass into ...

Okay, working in vim is something akin to getting prepared for the future. I'm starting ...

I have some very good ideas, but it's the end of November, and my last ...

Note: If you're looking for a Linux distro that's really designed to run with QEMU, ...

It's time to start using my daily journal for what it's for—keeping my bearings, suppressing ...

Ugh! I knew compiling a curses-enabled version of QEMU for Windows was going to be ...

Note: I gave up and am using the popularly distributed binaries on each platform. Download ...

It's time for for me to create an up-to-date QEMU on Mac OS X. I ...

Note: If you want to download an App that has all this encapsulation stuff worked ...

Okay, I am restarting my effort to get my own distribution of Linux going. It ...

Note: If you want to go down the true righteous path of learning Unix/Linux system ...

I walked past Seth Godin at the Maker Faire New York this weekend. I didn't ...

Six years ago today, a I sat down on the One Train, coming home from ...

Awesome hardware is getting cheap—I mean really cheap. I am a huge fan of the ...

Do you have to "be someone" in order to have an impact on search positions ...

Under the "new" SEO model, you will either need to become an Agent with a ...

This post is a direct continuation of yesterday's ramblings. I discussed the stream-and-tag model of ...

I'm back to work after a very long time off, between a one-week vacation and ...

Note: This article is a "heavy" and if at any time, it gets too depressing, ...

I'm definitely working hard to keep my grip on the rudder of the ship of ...

Okay, this morning's Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha update was huge. It looked like it locked me ...

One-handed typing (with coffee in the other) is possible on the iPhone, but not the ...

Okay, I can feel client work heating up again. My last two days of journal ...

Wow, I had a few straight days to mostly focus, and this is the result. ...

Okay, I cranked out ezscrape features both for Amie and Jennifer on Monday and Tuesday. ...

If there's one thing that illuminates the difference between Google and Apple product culture to ...

And today's work journal begins. I pushed out an awesome article today. I've been trying ...

If you have any doubts that it's a lifestyle near religion sort of thing that ...

Today I was neck-deep in PowerPoint. I hate that. But like any exercise, I was ...

Unless Google is going to fail, then Google+ is something that is going to gradually ...

As a forty-something geezer, it's self-evident that this current moment in time is the second-most-interesting ...

Okay, I have so much to do, and this is a perfect example of so ...

These highly technical and occasionally personal blog posts are a main pillar of my personal ...

Okay, now's your chance to do something amazing. Don't blow it. Functions like twitter really ...

Okay. I slip in a bit of coding here and there at work. Progress is ...

Okay, I'm up to a fairly tricky RegEx URL ReWrite puzzle in Python, and I ...

It takes about 10 years or 10,000 hours to become truly spontaneously expert at something. ...

Okay, it's a bit frustrating to be off-plan—and now even off my off-plan plan. But ...

An unfortunate fact of professional life is that focus is both a luxury and the ...

Okay, I'm going to try to make this a true Focus Friday. There are several ...

Okay, yesterday I made remarkable progress on the next big thing in 360iTiger: the ezscrape ...

NOTE: The headline is a spoiler. Yesterday I added support for a newurl (url rewriting) ...

I started some great work yesterday to add an easier way of screen-scraping to Tiger. ...

Okay, in my quest to reinvent myself online, or perhaps to invent myself for the ...

Who is Mike Levin? I'm trying to answer that a bit better, because I feel ...

Okay, a few words of prefacing before this long, somewhat disjointed post. I program, but ...

My field is SEO, a discipline mostly of influencing the biggest kingmaker on the planet ...

Heading to the Atlanta office this morning. It's the lightest I ever traveled—just my phone, ...

I'm always torn between reading and writing. Getting onto the subway in the morning or ...

I'll never touch another Windows machine, but I guess remote desktopping into it is okay. ...

There is always another distraction that seems just as interesting and just as valid as ...

On the subway on way to work. I'm so happy with how things are going ...

Okay, we cut the journal entry. Fully motivated. Get down to business. We have two ...

Well, it's Tuesday morning, and despite all my will, I just can't seem to get ...

Wow, it's 4:30 PM and I'm only just starting to do my daily journal entry. ...

Well, compiling a static version of QEMU on Mac OS X is turning out to ...

Note: Since I wrote this article, I've released my own Linux distro remix called Levinux, ...

Maverick projects are fun and interesting. Skunkworks, rogue, call them what you will, but they ...

I switched my 360iTiger application over to a Rackspace load-balancer a couple of months ago, ...

Wow, my last journal entry was last Monday, and almost nothing in it, at that. ...

This is to get a second article going about Python, intended to eliminate the need ...

Okay, and a new day begins. I just got out of a morning meeting. I ...

Okay, it's pretty obvious where my development work is going to lead me. I'm leaning ...

Relying on pre-built tools always felt a bit icky to me. In the contest between ...

And now for something completely different. You might think from all my tech ramblings, I'm ...

Okay, it's another daily journal that didn't make the cut yesterday. Focus, focus, focus! You ...

Update: it looks like they just enabled offline editing. The answer is "No" "Yes" per the ...

Although my work journal takes place in vim, fact is my iPhone is always on ...

Well, it's Thursday morning, and my SSH sessions are still open on my desktop, meaning ...

Well, as per my plan, I am starting my morning journal once again in vim ...

Well, it's been quite awhile since I've been into this file (the journal file in ...

Okay, as a relatively new daddy (she's 17 months old), and someone who recently repositioned ...

It's very liberating not caring whether anyone is reading my online journal or not. I ...

I missed Jack by a few years, when I was a student intern (technically, a ...

Stories not only help us communicate, but it can help a person drive themselves forward ...

Sometimes tools adapt to you, and sometimes you adapt to tools. Depending on the tools, ...

I lost a wonderful blog post from clicking the wrong place at the wrong time ...

Update: 360iTiger was something from my long-ago past. If you're interested in the new stuff, ...

360iTiger launched yesterday, and went off well—no disasters, and that's a win. The pebble has ...

Okay, it's stream of consciousness time. This is just a big brain-dump of everything going ...

Okay, it's time to really dig it today, and make a killer daily journal entry. ...

Windows suck. Screens rock. Windowing operating systems are a throw-back to the days when memory ...

This article is just a rumination over the state of electronic reading. I've been a ...

I have to move faster in order to position myself to get swept up into ...

Every day has a story to tell. Sometimes you know what you WANT to make ...

I'm struggling with the new thing I'm going to call myself. I remember in my ...

Okay, so today I finished the loadbalancer project for Tiger—my project at work that's about ...

My procrastination on the loadbalancing project was in-part because I don't yet have work paying ...

Well, yesterday was the sort of day I hope for. I now have a 3-server ...

In this daily work journal, I set up a Rackspace loadbalancer and copy an existing ...

I am at a crossroads. I can either go wishy-washy, and stay in the field ...

I write, therefore I think. Sometimes you don't fully know what you think about a ...

I'm running out of time today to fix a very important Tiger function. Both external ...

It's interesting watching the search trends on my personal website. Even though HitTail, my creation, ...

Note: if you're just looking for how to activate HUD in latest 12.04 beta, just ...

The hard drive of my Commodore C64x irrecoverably crashed today. There was an office move ...

I got to work a few minutes early Wednesday morning, with Tuesday's subway-writing fresh on ...

Note: Much of this article is summarized in my one-page plan. I'm trying to do ...

Gimp and Inkscape. I think that phrase will soon be comfortably rolling off my tongue ...

The trick is balancing all I have going on in my life, while still managing ...

Tumblr is not as required now for quick photo blogging.

It looks like I have until 1:30 PM before meetings kick in again. Miracle of ...

I have meetings intermittently throughout the day—exactly the thing to prevent me from descending into the zone or the ...

It's already Noon, and half the day seemed to slip away. I had two phone-calls ...

I just updated my compatriot Adam on all the great updates to Tiger in preparing ...

Yesterday was very good productivity-wise. I got focus time at work, then a bit after ...

There is an article today in New Scientist about what I call the Zone, but ...

Okay, in for a penny, in for a pound. Since I'm switching over to blogging as my ...

Note: The project I did this work for went public: tiger.360i.com. You can give it ...

Note: Since I've written this article, I've given up on fighting WordPress' natural year/month implied ...

As productive as yesterday ways, today is full of meetings. Hopefully, the second half of ...

People aren't stupid—or at least, people aren't excessively stupid for excessively long. Such situations are ...

I'm a big believer in the personal mission. Two thinkers codified this for me: the ...

Okay, this next step is dear to my heart. I have thus far resisted using ...

Okay, one of the things I lost conceptually in recent months is to work in ...

I'm starting out my day's journaling directly in my MikeLev.in WordPress, going against all my ...

Wow, I can't believe I did that little graphic Sitemap all on my iPhone, and ...

As a daddy of a 14-month old, I find most of my discretionary time reading ...

I have two public projects in the works: a system that I developed for work, ...

That one virtuous way of which I speak of learning and mastering technology happens to be ...

Want to run Linux Server? Here it is. Download, unzip and double-click it. It'll pop ...

I've started various personal websites in the past, but none really turned into much. I ...

As a child, I loved science art equally. Somehow over the years, I ended up ...

I am going to teach you how to use cheap little under $100 mini-servers (a.k.a. ...

NOTE: I released my own derivative version of Linux that has Tiny Core Linux included. ...

NOTE: What' you're looking for is Levinux. This is an article I wrote while making ...

Jack Tramiel, the man of steel who truly ushered in the era of the home ...

Have you have seen my Commodore 64 unboxing video? I'm strangely excited about this thing, ...

I saw an R.I.P. post today on Google+, and here was my response. What you’re ...

  This article will walk you through what it means to be technical, and why ...

The first step for an adult to become technical is to get in the right ...

If I had all the time in the world, I would write for a bunch ...

QEMU is a virtual computer, along the lines of VMWare, VirtualBox, Parallels, VirtualPC and all ...

Note: Since I've written this article, I've released Levinux Beta, a tiny virtual version of ...

Hey, pssst! Wanna see my new "short stack" dev platform? Download Levinux, and you can ...

I am a casual programmer, having spent my entire professional career in jobs that don't ...

Now that I have my new platform—Linux / Python / Mercurial / VIM, the idea ...

Those last two articles were doozies. Having recently switched my primary programming language after a ...

Things are going fairly well with my work at the office. I've created my fifth-generation ...

Check out my YouTube Channel, Podcast, follow me on Twitter, connect on LinkedIn and see my ...

On subway back to work in 2011. I'm forty years old, living in New York ...

Momentum is a precious commodity and wielding it well is among best productivity tricks. Accomplishing ...

I'm moving from Windows to *nix for server programming and am finally getting comfortable. In ...

You're in luck! I just added a video on this same topic although a slightly ...

There are two types of work in the daily-grind. The first is the well-known duties ...

Okay, its one thing to simply use a SheevaPlug, but its another to use it ...

I spent considerable time unbricking my SheevaPlug, losing precious time at work. But I chalk ...

Here’s a peek of me at the office unboxing and logging into a SheevaPlug. It ...

Dorothy, you're not in BIOS anymore. Yep, I bricked my SheevaPlug. This happened somewhere along the ...

But is deboostrap there? Oops, no. Okay, then we have to expand our plans. I ...

Okay, let's log into this thing. We can either connect through a network connection, assuming ...

Well, here were are getting past the virtual part of our Linux indoctrination, and into ...

We’ve created a bare-bones virtual Linux pendrive that will boot with a double-click from a ...

I sort of lost my way that this part of the ShankServer security tutorial was ...

Okay, first thing is to get the sudo program, which will also set up /etc/sudoers, ...

Okay, it’s been a long time since I did updates at ShankServer.org, and the pressure ...

I’m starting to see that life goes in phases, not characterized by age or rights ...

I saw Despicable Me over the weekend with Rachel, intuitively knowing it was the type ...

I'm a few days from forty, living in New York, with my first kid in ...

I just created a bio on myself for a sales pitch I’m going on. It ...

As I approach forty and fatherhood, I find myself contemplating how to keep my professional ...

I read my custom tailored news every morning on Reeder on my iPhone, for its ...

Hello again. I’m on the subway, tapping this out one handed on my iPhone. I ...

Planning is important, but not in the fat business plan sense, but rather in the ...

As I approach forty, I’m thinking through that one of the things I’m most dissatisfied ...

Note: I've reversed my decision on this post. There's not enough time in life to maintain multiple ...

This post is about the how the suburban mediocrity broke my heart, ruined a computer ...

NOTE: Since I've written this, I've come up with a way for you to begin ...

But wait! Now you're open to being hacked through SSH you say? Not quite. Remember ...

We finished building our bare-bones virtual Linux pendrive. It's double-clickable on Mac or PC, easy ...

Note: Since I wrote this article, I released my own derivative distribution of Linux, called ...

This last step is hardly worthy of its own blog post, so I will spice ...

Call it what you will, it's a pain to get rid of that CMD window ...

Note: If you want a ready-made tiny virtual Linux using QEMU that runs with a ...

Note: This effort has come a long way since I wrote this article. Check out ...

Despite the fact that the Mac has this wonderful concept of “application bundles” that lets ...

Note: You can instantly download and start playing around with QEMU and Linux on Mac ...

Note: If you're looking for the juiciest jeOS box, download Levinux, my personal Linux distro ...

At this point, I'm actually going to shut down and copy out the hard drive ...

Okay, as the previous posts pointed out ad nauseam, the result of running debootstrap is ...

You learn Linux to become a more capable individual, employee, and citizen. Linux is similar ...

Now that we have used the LiveCD to prepare the hard drive, we can use ...

Everything so far has been rudimentary file copying, unzipping, and command lines. This is where ...

So far, we've selected QEMU as our test-install virtual machine platform, dropped an iso image ...

After all that to start the Ubuntu Server install, I'm going to backtrack for this ...

NOTE: Want a QEMU Tutorial? Download Levinux and run Linux server with a double-click from ...

Welcome to MikeLev.in. It used to be ShankServer.org until I decided to unify all my ...

I am juggling a lot. I am an SEO Director of Strategy, and interact with ...

Here's the reason haters hate the iPad: technology people like complexity. Complexity perpetuates a technocracy ...

NOTE: Welcome, AROS fans. I'm an ex-Commodore employee and once-hardcore Amiga fan--the one who went ...

Early on, I fell into the Microsoft web development trap like so many others, because ...

I've talked some lately about my latest programming project. It's a re-positioning of myself off ...

I am deeply engaged in my latest generalized system or framework. I count it as ...

There's two types of work--that where you need to be alert and creative--challenging enough where ...

When things are too good in life, I believe that people fall into relaxed patterns. ...

There is a thin-line between thinking and actually doing in the information age. What's the ...

This post is about how I got into the field of search engine optimization, met ...

There is so much to think and do and be in life. The choices can ...

Yep, Apple's Ax processors are RISC, rekindling the age-old issue, you thought was dead since ...

Build vs. buy is one of the biggest questions in SEO, along with most other ...

A fasinating concept to me is the blurred line between a chimpanzee and Bill Gates. ...

Okay, it's time to think through the whole social media piece. I've settled on Twitter ...

It's snowing outside today (again) here in New York, and because of President's Day, is ...

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I'm currently writing this on the open source WordPress app for the iPhone. My timing ...

The Google Chrome browser set off a performance war centered around JavaScript and will soon ...

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5220 If Google actually liked JavaScript so much, they would support it server-side by supporting ...

I’m currently using OS X and Linux for my development work, and was curious about ...

Sherlock Holmes was always characterized by Watson as being like a hound in pursuit of ...

My “something big’s” seem to come in 5-year intervals, because the result of that big ...

There’s an interesting article in The Register today by Ted Dziuba that puts down TechCrunch’s ...

I recently had to collaborate with 2 individuals, and we were all on chat programs, ...

Sam and Joe were on a 2AM McDonalds run on a rainy night in Camden ...

I don't know if I'd go as far as saying that, but here's an article ...

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NOTE: I ended up going with Python and not JavaScript. At the time I wrote this, there ...

On this beautiful, sun-filled Memorial Day, I’m choosing to stay home and get some work ...

It’s not only Memorial Day weekend, but it’s also Geek Pride Day. That’s why it’s ...

The “local services” disussion panel that David Berkowitz set up yesterday was very insightful. Google, ...

As a college punk with it all together professionally, I used to think I was ...

Ok, so to make this entrepreneurial thing stick, I have to turn it into an ...

It’s time I started pulling my identity together online and lay the groundwork for “my ...

OK, it was a pretty tall order to leave Blogger and Blogging out of the ...

Foxmarks, the cross-machine bookmark syncronizer is now called XMarks, and has a nifty new xmarks.com ...

So I’m now using Twitter and Tumblr. And I have a legacy Blogger blog I ...

OK, now for moving the websites off of Brain. There are only two that appear ...

OK, I’m now copying a 7Gig file, which is the VMWare session that hosts the ...

OK, I’m up to the part of the server move where I don’t screw up. ...

I’m up to the tricky bit of the server move. I’m leaving behind 2 servers ...

Hey, wanna see a page with virtually nothing on it--no title tag, not head or ...

Well, they have me pegged. Posted via Pixelpipe.

Check out the scene from Manhattan (really!) near where I live. we were looking for ...

This is the new kitten at my corner convenience store. Posted via Pixelpipe.

Google Docs just added structured drawing. This is me testing it with an auto-publish to ...

Ben Morrow quoted one of my most popular blog posts about the Google Value Chain ...

Hope to capture their slap fights on video. Posted via Pixelpipe.

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OK, now for your programming-writing. I'll actually compose this believing that I will publish it ...

So at the times in my life where I was most effective at work and ...

OK, my first hurdle to overcome on my way to success is how to focus. ...

I'm 38 years old going on 40 in 1.5 years, and my life is just ...

The time is right. The tech is right. It's time again to program. The only ...

With Apple ordering those big iPhone-like 10 inch multi-touch screens, there's only one question on ...

In 2006, I developed HitTail and understood the age of real-time was upon us. I ...

I was sitting in a meeting recently, and an unnamed person from another agency threw ...

I am really excited about Google's social news sharing features. However, I'm still using NewsGator, ...

I'm eventually going to have to write a book about how I got fed up ...

The day is winding down. I think I'll get a blog post in before heading ...

I have an opportunity the likes of which I have not had since I programmed ...

I debate the need for Twitter when the Facebook status updates actually make your Facebook ...

The metaphor I use for things running well is going to be dated very soon: ...

I sit here on the A Train with coffee in one hand, blogging with iPhone ...

Work at a big company? Want to be a high impact player? No need to ...

One of the very technologies that would make the iPhone more useful is nearly impossible ...

OK, it's crazy for me not to be blogging more. I've been side-tracked over the ...

My latest concept has circled around the actual shape of a sales pipeline tm the ...

A computer is no good if it's not on you and not on. Waiting for ...

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The Muppet wins. Posted via Pixelpipe.

With comments and posts that are internal to Facebook appearing in real-time now, all those ...

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I'm trying CellSpin, Pixelpipe, and ShoZu today to send my iPhone photos to all the ...

I'm getting into microblogging, which alleviates the need for regular blogging. But it's all about ...

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This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

So, it's finally time to make my entrepreneurial move. But it's not like I'm going ...

Cappuchini - mmmmmmOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinThe Bronx's Applebee's service sucks, but they do make ...

Sammy, the Degu InspectorOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinDoes this degu meet your quality standards, Sammy?

Sugar Gliders in a CoconutOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinTamar and Hadassah like hanging out in ...

African Grays from YonkersOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinFound these African Gray's in a shady but ...

Exotic Pet WarehouseOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinWe rented a Zipcar and found this little place ...

Charlie Seems InterestedOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinBilly & Charlie notice the new family members from ...

Our DegusOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinAnd that's where we got our degus (chincillas crossed with ...

Chompy McBitebiteOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinSay hello to our new little friend--Chompy McBitebite

Yellow TangOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinThe interesting thing about this yellow tang is that it ...

Cecil Vs. A MastiffOriginally uploaded by Mike LevinNaming a big bouv dog Cecil has a ...

The Terror of InwoodOriginally uploaded by Mike Levinthe Abominable Snow-Cecil. Is it really a dog, ...

Addicted to Connect 4, originally uploaded by miklevin.Got to love people who use stupid screen ...

Part of a wedding gift from my employer, along with the monkey-picked tea. ThinkGeek is ...

This is a blog entry I had to write. They come few and far between ...

Mashable event again. Not sure who is more prolific at these things-- Marshall Sponder or ...

Guess that's why they call it Touch.

At the Mashable party tonight. Great party.

Mexican Axolotl, originally uploaded by miklevin.

iPhone Line 6 Days Later, originally uploaded by miklevin.Almost a week after the launch, and ...

Joel Spolsky's Open House, originally uploaded by miklevin.This is Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software ...

Cecil, originally uploaded by miklevin.

I started my new job at 360i this week. Experimenting with different ways to get ...

miklevin.com - May 2008 Monday, May 5After 30-some years of false-starts with entrepreneurial-type ventures, I'm ...

April, 2008 at miklevin.comTuesday, April 29, 2008Yeah, so Google Docs kicks Blogger's butt as a ...

For all you iPhone news junkies experimenting with reading news sites online, but can't stand ...

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I was into Ajax before Ajax. Probably most noteworthy, and documented, was when I was ...

Walking I'm Central Park. Where am I?I want to press the where am I button ...

There's clearly an online bias for the iPhone. Just about the only apps you can ...

Blogging from my iPhone because I can't read news on the subway. If I could ...

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Here's a photo I took with iPhone near 103rd St in Central Park. If this ...

Yes, so I'm one of the crazies who waited in line here in NYC last ...

June 29, 2007 Computer games, be they console- or PC-based, elicit a level of involvement ...

Keep message simple. Become an expert. Fill the news time. Tell them you are the ...

There’s a subset of viral video sits that have been popping up focusing on verticals. ...

From New Scientist - The material resulting from attaching viruses to semiconducting quantum dots could ...

Being unproductive on the web is easy: click over to YouTube, surf Facebook profiles or ...

(InfoWorld) - Microsoft and IBM executives Wednesday admitted feeling heat from Google now that the ...

June 21, 2007 Why do we still store all our applications and data on our ...

June 21, 2007 Here's a simple, brilliant and very useful new product - glowing strip ...

Lending Club, the Facebook exclusive person-to-person lending service has passed the $100,000 mark in loans ...

Google says Vista search changes not enough -- As we reported yesterday, Microsoft's "capitulation" to ...

*SECADM writes "Learning from Microsoft's error, Google is building a lobbying power house in Washington." ...

Court Protects Email from Secret Government Searches -- Landmark Ruling Gives Email Same Constitutional Protections ...

Safari ushers in better browser colors -- Safari may not be rewriting the rules for ...

Google made another acquisition announcement today - they’ve bought a company called Zenter (”a company ...

prostoalex writes "As part of the deal with the FCC to approve the AT&T/BellSouth merger, ...

Advertising Age got it right as to why the iPhone will succeed despite all the ...

So you want to view Alexa rankings in your browser - and even send data ...

Vivisimo’s web search engine, Clusty, now has a mobile search component. Clusty Mobile aims to ...

Ziff Davis Media now has an online community, IT Link, for IT professionals to network ...

(InfoWorld) - Online criminals have launched a widespread Web attack that has turned tens of ...

In what some might consider to be an overdue move, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is ...

Testiiiiing writes "CoolTechZone.com's Gundeep Hora publishes his thoughts on why fanboys act the way they ...

As opposed to the relatively new Digg API, the Facebook API has been available to ...

Whoops, there goes Vista. Direct Download Link for Windows Vista Leaked by Microsoft - Desi-Tek ...

(InfoWorld) - Developers have high hopes for Adobe's newly named AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) software, ...

Gecko's gravity-defying trick explained. The lizard's extraordinary wall-climbing ability is due to a unique quick-release ...

Steve Jobs in a Box -- It's a stunning box, a wizard object with a ...

Network Solutions Earns Authorized Google AdWords Reseller Status -- Network Solutions is one of several ...

Microsoft Renames IPTV Platform 'Mediaroom'; Adds PC-TV Media Sharing; Opens Platform -- Microsoft TV IPTV ...

Television Syndication will Never Be the Same: Fox Video is Sharable with Brightcove Player -- ...

(We're already the making spooky-force phones!) OriginalArlen writes "The science fiction writer Charlie Stross has ...

The web is littered with failed or stagnant personalized news startups. New startup Thoof is ...

Web IM service eBuddy launched a new version this week that delivers an improved user ...

Three separate news stories involving numbers this week caught my eye. iLike announced it has ...

Reports that Joost is now talking to hardware vendors about embedding Joost into set-top boxes ...

Another 10 web operating systems reviewed -- Several months have passed since I wrote my ...

An anonymous reader writes to tell us about Yaman Salahi, a UC Berkeley student and ...

Ning Rolls Out Facebook App Builder: Embed Your Social Network In a Social Network -- ...

NewsCloud writes "After reading about the Facebook platform launch, I spent the next week learning ...

Ian Lamont writes "Mike Elgan has an analysis of Apple's successes and concludes that the ...

brownsteve writes "Eastman Kodak Co. has unveiled what it says are 'next-generation color filter patterns' ...

Billosaur writes "New Scientist Tech has an intriguing article about researchers at Rice University in ...

Pabugs writes with a CNN story about an uncomfortable development in world politics and information ...

Rarely Greys writes "A major Yahoo XSS flaw makes it possible to take over any ...

madison writes to mention coverage at ZDNet on the future of Intel technology. Multicore chips ...

amigoro writes with a link to the Press Esc blog, discussing a possible replacement for ...

Spamicles writes "A vote is imminent for the bill that is a direct response to ...

arallsopp writes "European data protection laws restrict the commercial use of photographs where individuals are ...

How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual ...

Duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced -- Last week, I participated in the duplicate content ...

Facebook forced to sell stake after 'hardware stuff-up' -- The networking site had to dilute ...

comScore Reports Growth in Internet Yellow Pages Searches Yellow Book Network Shows Fastest Growth in ...

Custom Search on the fly -- Starting today, there's a new feature that makes Custom ...

Radon360 writes "As the ever-increasing amount of information available online becomes indexed and searchable, more ...

bshell writes "An article in science blog says we may have to rethink how genes ...

An anonymous reader writes "An article on OSWeekly.com discusses a few things that Microsoft could ...

mcgrew writes to mention New Scientist is reporting that scientists have clocked matter traveling at ...

mrminator writes to tell us Space.com is reporting that Europe's largest space contractor, EADS, has ...

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that according to a recent study, Biologists have ...

Mosoto launched their peer-to-peer file swapping and chatting application using the Facebook API back in ...

TypePad Newsletter =================== Go beyond blogging with TypePad pages: With the new TypePad pages feature, ...

iPhone to Support Third-Party Web 2.0 Applications -- Innovative New Way to Create Applications for ...

Since last November, ClearSpring’s widget syndication platform has served up analytics on over 4.2 billion ...

SONY UNVEILS POWERFUL NOTEBOOKS IN BOLD COLORS -- SAN DIEGO, June 11, 2007 ¾ Sony ...

Your Truman Show launches Wednesday with a product dedicated to publishing, rating and reviewing personal ...

Google Responds To EU: Cutting Raw Log Retention Time; Reconsidering Cookie Expiration -- In response ...

LinkedIn says it will own business networking -- In the future, everyone will likely maintain ...

coondoggie writes "Looking to address critics, the US Patent and Trademark Office this week is ...

An anonymous reader writes "German engineers have designed the first liquid camera lens with no ...

Wi-Fi memory cards coming to cameras -- Think of it as point, shoot and post. ...

javipas writes "Acording to a study published by Forrester Research, 2008 will be the year ...

"Molecular origami" could become the latest nanotech construction technique, thanks to the first detailed study ...

A new device can send power across a room using magnetic induction - it could ...

From New Scientist Data stored in live neurons The breakthrough brings closer the creation of ...

Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet has the scoop on Microsoft’s next best thing since sliced ...

rs232 wrote with a PC World link discussing another alliance between Microsoft and a vendor ...

A snyc'ing email phone is fundamental to my daily routine now--not merely to keep in ...

kcurtis writes "According to the Boston Globe, MIT Researchers have powered a light bulb remotely. ...

jimsnail writes "J. Craig Venter and the Institute that bears his name are again moving ...

An anonymous reader writes "While the patent office had rejected earlier attempts by Amazon to ...

runner_one writes "According to the New York times, A federal agency has banned imports of ...

A new generation of small and efficient acoustic heat engines - which convert heat into ...

Google has bought one of the top two players in the nascent market for middleware ...

Female bean weevils mate simply to quench their thirst - the males' ejaculate is a ...

When under attack from feeding insects, some plants emit chemicals to attract the insects' enemies ...

A geoengineering scheme to reflect some of the Sun's rays back into space might cool ...

A team in the Canary Islands has sent a quantum cryptographic key 144km using "spooky ...

Via Ars Technia Researchers suggest that a cognitive lock-in occurs when users become familiar enough ...

This post on How to Learn Programming in the First Decade of the New Centry ...

A Future for Newspapers -- New technology is mucking up the media, and newspapers seem ...

cnet-declan writes "State and local governments in Washington this week began an all-out lobbying push ...

aalobode sends us to an article up at BusinessWeek about Intel's design for a new, ...

javipas writes "Today by 4:00 PM CST Dell will start selling three machines with Ubuntu ...

PetManimal writes "David Ulevitch, the founder of OpenDNS, claims that Google and Dell have placed ...

llamapalooza writes "Google announced that it will ban essay writing firms from advertising on their ...

I've been using the Mike-Levin.com blog as a sort of receptacle for my daily blog-reading ...

Another tech that could have owned the world, but didn't. Just saw Nokia Linux at ...

Reader Anonymous Coward the younger sends in a link to an article up at Mises.org ...

Small price to pay for the omniverses' secrets. slashthedot sends us to High Productivity Computing ...

From New Scientist A device that uses a simple living organism (slime mold) to sense ...

ccellist writes "Physorg.com is reporting on the University of Delaware and Cambridge NanoTech's experiments regarding ...

sterlingda writes "Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter ...

The Pirate Bay to Launch YouTube Competitor -- Some believed the video site might evolve ...

jcatcw writes "Speech recognition software is fast, but it still may not be accurate enough. ...

revilo78 writes "Will 2008 be the year we can finally drop our expensive cable bills? ...

ChelleChelle writes "In a rare meeting, popular sci-fi writer and co-editor of the blog Boing ...

Ryan Block has formally responded to what is now being referred to as “AppleGate” in ...

An anonymous reader writes "A paper was recently published about Shift at the Computer Human ...

Too bad they don't get the BestBuy distribution deals. Fujitsu Announces the New 'U Series' ...

iPhone delayed until October, Leopard delayed again until January -- This one doesn't bode well ...

Ben Rothke writes "The goal of security metrics is to replace fear, uncertainty, and doubt ...

Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton's latest story is ready for your consumption. He starts "Recently, ...

Andy Updegrove writes "By now you've probably read more than you want to about Microsoft's ...

Bringo solves one of the most frustrating problems that we encounter daily: phone trees. Call ...

From New Scientist Analysis of the flies' flight has revealed that they do not behave ...

Truemors Launches -- Truemors, Guy Kawasaki's new startup, opened to the public about an hour ...

Creative Boutiques Interactive-only shops Guerrilla-marketing specialists

Porn.com Sells for 9 Million -- MXN Limited acquires Porn.com for $9 Million. Terms of ...

Everyone has a Google vulnerability story. Here's yet another. Google's Potential Vulnerability - An Open ...

davco9200 writes "The New York Times has up a lengthy profile of the Large Hadron ...

Video games are 4 years older than me. May 15th marks the 40 year anniversary ...

An anonymous reader sends along a posting from the Grooveking blog on a group of ...

Microsoft must dominate every computing platform to fortify their future. Another one bites the dust. ...

This is from TechCrunch. As a Web 2.0 startup, I watch stuff like this closely. ...

The iPhone's on eBay already -- Apple won't say exactly when the iPhone will arrive, ...

From New Scientist The US Supreme Court reaffirms an act that outlaws patents of obvious ...

MoxFulder writes "Henri Richard, AMD's VP of sales, has promised to deliver open-source drivers for ...

theodp writes "Forget the Summer of Code. If you've got a hot idea for a ...

njondet writes "French-law.net reports that the French government has just launched 'Signal Spam', an anti-spam ...

jiawen writes "Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope has been used by researchers to make ...

theodp writes "In an e-mail worthy of the Dilbert Hall of Fame, IBM execs responded ...

An anonymous reader writes "Google, despite 'doing no evil', has managed to make itself a ...

Jenga717 writes "The US military has launched its own channel on YouTube, in efforts to ...

My recent "thing", HitTail, was just mentioned in the Wall Street Journal. So for anyone ...

May 10, 2007 HP overnight introduced a wide range of mobile computing devices, services and ...

May 10, 2007 We love to see consumer products that are redesigned to reflect the ...

Romer!can writes "C|Net Editor Michael Kanellos offers a potentially contentious opinion piece about patents and ...

mknewman wrote with a link to a story on the NASA site indicating that they ...

If true, the USG is playing lnto a publicity stunt. AP - Academy Award-winning filmmaker ...

pilsner.urquell points out a story in the Village Voice from a stockholders' meeting at the ...

It's time to improve my RSS News reading and re-mailing regimen, which is cool and ...

Guess it's obvious to us who know Widget/Ajax capabilities, but these folkes make a big ...

I should blog about the 2 different interprettations of Widgets. World Wide Web of Widgets ...

Kevin 'Digg' Rose goes for 3rd startup -- First Digg, then the online video network, ...

Ant writes "Dark Horizons reports after much talk and posturing over the future of "The ...

holy_calamity writes "A Canadian firm has launched a device that can track the gaze of ...

holy_calamity writes "A new navigation technique for robots allows them to make predictions about what's ...

I spoke about this several times w/friends lately. In future, each of us 6 billion ...

Dotnaught writes "A new study by spyware researcher Ben Edelman finds that spyware-driven traffic inflation ...

So here's one that goes on Mike-Levin.com and not the Connors or HitTail Blog. A ...

A story hit the homepage of Digg today where TechSoapBox lambastes Google for going too ...

In light of some recently achieved pseudo-celebrity in the SEO community due to HitTail, I ...

So, I love blogging about the big game-changing technologies. When it's about driving traffic to ...

I noticed the search hit by the above headline to the Connors site, and I ...

Gates vs. Jobs (vs. Commodore?) This video is awesome, and I was thrilled to see ...

HitTail Interview with Connie Connors and Mike Levin This is a little more about my ...

In reviewing the blogosphere mentions of Connors Communications, I came across this...Oh, reports are that ...

For those following my blog posts here on Mike-Levin.com, you're pretty much reading in the ...

Last week, BusinessWeek covered HitTail (the September 25th issue, on page 16). This week, their ...

HitTail - The Long Tail of Search For those who haven't made the connection yet ...

What happens when an entirely brand new laptop costs less than a Microsoft Windows software ...

The Corruptibles The DRM war

Posts that contain Hittail per day for the last 30 days. ...versus the buzz around ...

I stopped at the Apple store at 59th Street and 5th Avenue this weekend. I ...

Day of the Longtail Here's the parody that was produced by Technorati's Peter Hirshberg and ...

So, I'm building an app where I want amazing database performance, and I'm probably going ...

The Long Tail book launch date is here. I'll be at the party tomorrow. My ...

So, there's a certain spirit of engineer, inventor and entrepreneur that just knows how to ...

So, I blogged about the Ajax Datagrid in HitTail both in the HitTail and Mike-Levin.com ...

So, if you're ever looking for an example of an Ajax datagrid that's connected to ...

This latest post is a message both about Microsoft's mishandling of the Microsoft Genuine Advantage ...

So, it's probably old news now, but Blogger is definitely and transparently now supporting RSS. ...

It's amazing the search trends you tap into when you start HitTailing. Putting up the ...

OK, at long last, I'm going to be updating my super-search-page. The premise of the ...

So, I saw Superman Returns yesterday. I was 8 years old when the Christopher Reeve ...

I definitely straddle the fence between the technical world and the marketing world. I am ...

So, I made the somewhat controversial decision to develop the HitTail application in ASP Classic--very ...

So, it's a pretty silly item inspiring this post. I just bought an alarm clock ...

HitTail - A Practical Alternative To Paying For Search Hits So, today was all about ...

Well, the HitTailing site has been running for almost 4 weeks now, with sign ups ...

Fascinating. Anyone know what this is about? I don't see any swastikas or anything. I'll ...

To my knowledge, this is the first time the political aspects of virtualization has been ...

A sore point of late has been that my professional edge has always come from ...

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) has formalized into an established discipline with clear rules for success ...

If you're looking for a recommended SEO (search engine optimizer), consider Connors Communications. It's the ...

With the Da Vinci Code movie around the corner, interest in Dan Brown’s other books ...

I’ve been on something of a possession acquisition and purging binge lately (ugh, the search ...

Well, it’s a VERY nuanced point, but there appears to be a way to circumvent ...

Know WHAT PLATES need to be spun each day. This in itself is an exercise ...

Hello everyone. I don’t really get posts out here very often. The reason for that ...

I just bought an Averatec 3700 laptop, which is a 12” ultra-light that looks just ...

Connors Communications is a PR Firm that is also expert in search engine optimization. This ...

Last week, I switched to the Sony Ericsson P910a, running Symbian UIQ. There's a crop ...

Well, the Macromedia site has been switched over to an Adobe look. This marks the ...

Are your Word Blogger buttons disappearing? In the Blogger Word Help FAQ, they mention a ...

Note: For anyone finding this super-ancient article, the page you really want to be visiting ...

I'm investigating my PC on a keychain options again. I'm a scripting-oriented Microsoft developer who ...

Well, it looks like GoogleBase is live. I published my first classified (for Connors’ SEO ...

If anyone has been trying to get updates with SpyBot Search & Destroy and gets ...

Have you seen the TV commercials where two people grab for the last pack of ...

Recently, a long-time friend asked me how to get into Google, and I emailed him ...

One of the side effects of being awash in the data-stream of search hits is ...

Any Web Developer knows the process, edit, save/compile, refresh (usually F5). I'm experiencing a truly ...

In case you're wondering, yes I just added the Matrix-like scrolling of my search log ...

When you search on SEO vs. SEM in Google, the #1 result is a discussion ...

The SEO challenge a few years ago over Nigritude Ultramarine helped to define an activity ...

With the announcement of the new Apple iPod, Steve Jobs is beginning to do with ...

While I'm on the topic of coining phrases, it has occurred to me more than ...

I like to use strong mental models in interacting with the world around me. Sometimes, ...