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    The story is in the mail

    I mailed the space vampire story today. I actually don't feel like throwing up this time. I've edited it almost every day (it got to be compulsive) this week, and every go round actually led to...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 14, 2005, 12:11 PM PDT

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    Now is the time to tune your tagcloud

    Here at TechRepublic, we're not ashamed to admit when someone else designs something cool. Case in point: tagcloud, an odd little online service that will accept RSS feeds, and parse out the...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 13, 2005, 9:46 AM PDT

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    Tonight is the (vampire) night

    Barring disaster, I'm going to put the final touches on the space vampire story tonight (I'm really beginning to hate that shorthand title), and drop it in the mail tomorrow. It's extremely...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 12, 2005, 2:22 PM PDT

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    What makes a discussion "great"

    For those of you who know me only from my Geek Trivia column, it may come as a surprise that I've been an ad hoc community moderator at TechRepublic for over a year. In that time, I've learned a...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 11, 2005, 9:04 AM PDT

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    All-time Top 26 on-topic discussion threads

    These are the Top 26 on-topic discussions that have more than 300 posts as of this date. Ageism? Good Idea? Microsoft to add 'black box' to Windows Should Intellectual Property Exist?...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 8, 2005, 12:21 PM PDT

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    All-time Top 19 "too hot" discussion threads

    These are the 19 'off topic' threads that have more than 300 posts as of this date. The Evolution lie Why I am voting for George W Bush Have you had a divorce? Need tips....

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 8, 2005, 11:52 AM PDT | Latest comment by ProtiusX

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    All-time Top 10 Technical Q&A threads

    These are the only Q&A threads to exceed 50 posts, as of this date. As you can see, off-topic notions pop up even in the "all business" forum. Finish this statement......

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 8, 2005, 11:47 AM PDT

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    London bombings showcase Wiki power

    This is probably old news to a lot of you, but I can't help being amazed by how quickly the Wikipedia responded to yesterday's London terror bombings. There's already a very healthy entry about...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 8, 2005, 10:15 AM PDT

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    The London bombing

    I'm not going to heap a lot of sentiment onto the issue of the bombing of the London transit system this morning; there's enough of that going around. I spent several months in London during my...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 7, 2005, 10:08 AM PDT

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    Space vampires are toast!

    Making use of the July 5 holiday that no one outside this company seems to recognize (CNET has its perks), I locked myself in my home office today and finished the aforementioned space vampire...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 5, 2005, 2:54 PM PDT

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    Einstein gone wild!

    Well, your friendly neighborhood Trivia Geek is about to take a few days off to enjoy the July 4th holiday, so I'll leave you with a trivia/impulse-buy combo. Today is the 100th Anniversary of...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | July 1, 2005, 12:57 PM PDT

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    Why Tech Q&A is broken...

    The TR Community team spent an hour today hashing out some current thinking on the momentous Tech Q&A revamp, and it was one of the most frustrating hours of my life. The people in the room...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 30, 2005, 1:05 PM PDT

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    Will Viacom buy CNET?

    CBS Marketwatch is floating a rumor that CNET (TechRepublic's parent company) is shopping itself to potential buyers. Now, we've heard this rumor about a thousand times before, usually involving...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 30, 2005, 7:01 AM PDT

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    The Browncoats are coming!

    Me, I'm a Browncoat. That means I was and am a fan of the late, lamented science fiction TV show Firefly. (I'm also on the global frequency, a refugee from Caprica, always carry a towel, and...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 27, 2005, 2:22 PM PDT

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    What price (vigilante) justice?

    Now, I'm not one to criticize a serious, well-respected publication for dabbling in pop-culture zeitgeist to get a few non-regular readers in the door. First, because I serve the same function for...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 27, 2005, 6:50 AM PDT

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    What if we killed TechPoints?

    After months of promises and postponements, we've finally begun serious planning for the long-awaited revamp of our Technical Q&A feature. Nothing has been set in stone, not by a long shot,...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 23, 2005, 3:34 PM PDT

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    What are America's lions coming to?

    I hereby declare this crazy lion week. And no, its not because Barry Sanders went on some deranged pro football unretirement spree. I'm talking the bizarre and varied behavior of feral super...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 23, 2005, 11:03 AM PDT

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    The Onion is finally funny again

    Back in college, I discovered The Onion, a parody newspaper that most Web users are quite familiar with, even though the majority are unaware that actual print versions of The Onion have existed...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 23, 2005, 7:17 AM PDT

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    Your wishes have (mostly) been granted

    Over a year ago, I posted this discussion on TechRepublic asking how the site in general and Geek Trivia in particular could be improved. Sixteen months later, the idea of a GeekRepublic has been...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 22, 2005, 10:55 AM PDT

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    How do you quantify trust?

    News.com has an article from the CEO of Plaxo, a company that makes contact management software, and it piqued my interest. Basically, a guy who makes a very good living helping people make...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 21, 2005, 7:36 AM PDT | Latest comment by deepsand

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