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I could have been a contender, if it wasn't for that power cord.
In the inward-looking world of blogs, see, one sure way to gain credibility is to have been around forever. Bloggers who have been at it since 2001 are considered greybeards; bloggers from before then get the same kind of reverence as Lucy's skeleton. Tell us, supplicants ask, what did it feel like to crawl out the primordial guck?
My blogging career began and ended in 1997.
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The program
- Wesley Fok Apps we love
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WebSeven
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- Lazy summer days with Bigfoot, Garfield and Marmaduke
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Audio:
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Gamer
- Scott Colbourne Let him die already!
- Too Human, developed exclusively for the Xbox 360, is an exercise in exhaustion
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The List
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- Expect media, old and new, to trip over each other at the Democratic National Convention
Beijing 2008
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- The unofficial end to journalism as Christie Blatchford knows it may have come earlier this week in Beijing
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WonderQuest
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TQ Magazine
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- Two Canadian guys long on ideas and short on connections descend on Boston looking for the opportunity to launch their startup
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