So I took a stab at creating a header image. I used that crazy haettenschweiler font. I wanted to use the American Idiot font, but I could only find cheesy imitations and not “the real thing” in my five-minute Google hunt for it. This is actually the first time there’s ever been a header image on davidgagne.net — amazing when you consider this site’s been chugging along for over five years now. I just got an email and a gift certificate from dreamhost to congratulate me on my four-year anniversary with them.
Posts in the category “blogging”
A Short History of DavidGagne.net
A coda prior to building an About Page
MySpace v. Friendster
You can’t buy your way into knowledge of a rave.
Video Blog Business Models: SXSW 2006
Transcript of 2006 SXSW panel discussion
Democratization of the Moving Image: SXSW 2006
A transcript of a 2006 SXSW panel
The New Startup Cultures: SXSW 2006
Transcript of 2006 SXSW panel discussion
Five Years of Blogging
Not many other people can say this: Today is the five year anniversary of my first blog entry. (This site’s been running for about nine years, but I didn’t start blogging until five years ago today.) It seems like just yesterday … but this is my 2,550th post …
Is There Anybody Out There?
What are the chances that after two+ years of little-to-no posting that anybody will be interested in visiting this site again? I’m guessing pretty slim. In my defense: I’ve been extraordinarily busy. Poor davidgagne.net here was also deluged with about 100 spam comments each day, which is one of the main reasons I finally switched
Excellent Failure – Google Bombs Away!
US President George W. Bush has been Google bombed. A search for “miserable failure” on the popular search engine Google brings up, as the first link, the official biography of Bush provided by the White House. This can be done because Google does not only search the contents of web pages, it also counts how
BlogTree
Once again I am probably several months behind on this one, but everyone knows I’m a sucker for a good meme. And it’s not my fault, I swear! I’ve just been working triple-time for the last few months. Anyway …Here is my “blog family tree” from BlogTree.com. Look at all those siblings I have! Now,