It only took me a couple of years to get around to it, but I have now setup my feed using Feedburner. Here’s the new link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MichaelFiorittosWeblog So I pretty much have changed this blog as much as possible. I moved to WordPress, changed the url, changed the urls again and then change the feed url. I have tried to…
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More blog changes
I did not like the structure of my urls so I am making another change. The old structure was index.php/%postdate%/%posttitle%/ or something like that. I have changed it to get rid of the index.php. They should now be %posttitle%/%postid%/. I also installed the permalink redirect plugin to hopefully redirect all the old posts to the new url structure. At some…
Newspaper content budgets – what would you cut?
It is Saturday, cold outside and I’m doing laundry so I thought it would be interesting to do some analysis of the online survey Jeff Jarvis posted using Google apps. First, I need to make some assumptions about the respondents. I’m guessing that the audience is going to skew towards folks involved in journalism as a business since they would…
Jeff Jarvis’ resyndication idea
In a recent post, Jeff Jarvis explores a new model for syndication – he calls it resyndication. Fundamentally the idea is based on paying for “flow” or traffic to your content. Typically newspapers and other publishers pay syndicates and content providers for the usage rights or the right to publish content in their print and online publications. This model works…
Happy birthday Sean
My son celebrated his 25th birthday yesterday and I wanted to publicly wish him a happy birthday. I’m sure he’ll love this shot. That’s him on the left with his sister Mia. I have no idea what he is wearing, but when they were growing up, Sean would dig through Mia’s dress up clothes and they would create these wild…
Tax time redux
Well, garbage in garbage out. After updating my printer driver I am now able to see all of the forms in Turbo Tax. I had a hunch where there might be an error so I did a bit of backtracking through the state forms to the federal form and found the problem. I entered the number wrong – instead of…
Tax season is upon us – and I’m seeking professional help
I have done by own taxes for years and for the most part my returns are pretty simple. For the past couple of years I have had to deal with filing in two states because I work in Illinois but live in Indiana. Turbo Tax has handled this fairly well. This year we sold our house in Indiana and moved…
From Kevin Kelly – Better than free
Kevin Kelly wrote an insightful post on the internet as a great copy machine. His premise is when copies are free you have to sell things which can’t be copied. This creates an opportunity to derive value (cash) from things that can’t be copied, faked or cloned – or as he calls them, “generatives”. He goes on to outline the…
Sheldon Brown passed away
I just read on David Churbuck’s blog that Sheldon Brown passed away. I never met him in person, but his wealth of knowledge about bicycles helped me restore an old Raleigh Sport and created an obsession with fixed gear bikes. I finally managed to build one up after poring over his articles on the subject. Some time back I learned…
P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Half-Marathon in Phoenix
My son Aaron Fioritto and I ran the P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Half-Marathon in Phoenix a few weeks ago. After training in the Chicago winter, running in Phoenix was great. The temp at the start was about 50 degrees and it warmed up to the high 60’s towards the end. My old friend Tony Corso flew up from Texas…