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Tuesday, January 19th, 1:27 ET
Twitter Causing Clutter
CommentsI’ve decided to stop importing my tweets automatically into this blog. Even after the hours I spent figuring out a way to differentiate them from other posts.
There was just too much clutter.
I even added a link at the top of this page to exclude Twitter posts from the view, but that didn’t quite work for me. There was still too much noise coming into the site.
So I decided, instead, to add a widget to the top of the page that dynamically updates with my last four Twitter updates. I’ve removed a similar widget from my sidebar. We’ll see if I’m still happy with that after a few days.
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Tuesday, January 19th, 10:16 ET
Pandora One: A Small Price To Pay
CommentsI just reached my streaming limit for Pandora. They allow 40 hours per month, which, they claim, very few users ever hit. Honestly, the only reason I didn’t hit it sooner than the 19th is that I’m always very careful to hit pause when I walk away from my desk.
40 hours per month. That’s only one normal work week (and who, these days, works a normal work week?). So, if you’re that guy who’s always at his desk and always has the headphones on, Pandora One is well worth it.
It’s $36 per year. I spend more than that on most dinners out. Pandora One removes the steaming limit, allows you to use an Air app, lets you stream higher quality audio and removes all advertisements.
I’ve been listening to a lot of Bloc Party Radio and Modest Mouse Radio, but right now, I’m streaming Jay-Z Radio. Needed a little pickmeup this morning.
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Notes: 1 / Sunday, January 17th, 3:44 ET
Using {TagsAsClasses} In Tumblr
CommentsIt took a while, but I finally figured out how to differentiate text posts, like this one, from text posts that are imported automatically from my Twitter feed. You’ll notice that any posts that were imported from my Twitter feed will have, near the top, “This post was automatically imported from my Twitter feed.”
The Tumblr {TagsAsClasses} dynamic tag identifies the root domain of the importing URL. In this specific case, that’s ‘twitter_com’. So, anywhere you put {TagsAsClasses} in your custom HTML will be rendered as twitter_com in the HTML, assuming that the post was imported from Twitter.
The same hold true if the content was imported from another site, like Digg. In that case, {TagsAsClasses} would be rendered as digg_com.
In my custom HTML, I added the following line to the section for text post templates, in the location that I wanted the text to be displayed:
<div class=”{TagsAsClasses}”></div>
In my example, this renders in the final HTML as:
<div class=”twitter_com”></div>
Then, in my CSS I defined:
.twitter_com:before {
content: “This post was automatically imported from my Twitter feed”;
}So, any post imported from Twitter will load the div that calls the twitter_com class. That div will display the content, “This post was automatically imported from my Twitter feed.” You can see the end result on this blog.
Of course, how this works, exactly, will vary depending on your template and how it’s set up.
Now, I’d like to be able to automatically tag these imports as Twitter, but I haven’t figured that one out yet. I may actually remove the Twitter imports entirely, because I don’t want things to get too noisy.
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Friday, January 15th, 11:29 ET
Stocks I’m Watching This Week
Comments$IDN - Intellicheck Mobilsa - Website
Intellicheck Mobilsa makes security and access control devices for various industries. Their largest client seems to be the US Government. Their most popular products are Defense ID and ID-CHECK, both card-based access control devices.
I got in at $3.75 which puts me in the hole 8.95% after today’s price of $3.41 in after hours trading. They saw a big bump after the failed terrorist attack by the so-called Underwear Bomber. I got in on that up-tick.
I bought on news which means I was in late. I fully admit, I bought on hype and, frankly, don’t care much for the company itself. Regardless, I’m not in for a whole lot, did see moderate gains over the last few days and am hoping for another pop next week.
My only hope, at this point, is that they announce a TSA contract or that the stock somehow maintains and short sellers are forced to cover. I think that there’s a better than 50% chance of either happening. If neither materialize in the next two weeks, I’ll get out and cut my losses.
My current position: Holding, but ready to jump at a moment’s notice
KIT digital is a Prague-based provider of IP video solutions. The term IP video solutions covers a very broad range of products that I won’t get into here.
I have a unique situation with this particular company. I was an employee at ROO Group when KIT acquired the company. I left ROO and joined a company operating in the same space, The FeedRoom. In October of 2009 KIT acquired The FeedRoom. My running joke is that they acquired FeedRoom just to get me back.
I got into the stock back when it was $RGRP.ob, which then became $KITD.ob and eventually, with a NASDAQ listing and a reverse split, became $KITD. Can’t complain. I got into $RGRP.ob at $0.08 (that’s pre-split) which set me up for a nice upside.
A few weeks ago I liquidated my position in $KITD, but not because I thought that the price was heading down. To the contrary, I’m still watching the company closely and have no reason to believe that there’s anything but a long period of gains ahead of them.
My current position: Watching and waiting
interCLICK is a display ad network, based in New York City. They sell inventory from their publisher partners to ad agencies who run advertising campaigns across the interCLICK network.
ICLK is currently trading at $5.69. They optimize their network using data from a third-party demographic profiler, BlueKai, and they do this to fill remnant ad inventory. I think that both of these put them at a disadvantage. ICLK is going to have a hard time making headway in a crowded, commoditized market.
I’m conflicted on this one - tempted to short it, but will likely just stay away from it. I can’t think of any events in the near term that would drive the price down in any meaningful way, but then again, I can’t think of any that would drive it up either.
My current position: Watching, but not really waiting for anything
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Friday, January 15th, 6:15 ET
Bloc Party, Modest Mouse
CommentsI’ve been obsessed with Bloc Party over the last two weeks. Listening to Bloc Party radio on Pandora. Now, I’m switching to Modest Mouse.
Good News for People Who Love Bad News is pretty amazing. Check it out. So is We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.
I tend to listen to one album, constantly, for about two weeks. Then I switch to something else. Just how I do.
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Friday, January 15th, 5:46 ET
No Go On The Import
CommentsDecided that it was easier to just treat my old blog as an archive. You can find it here: http://www.andrewbaisley.com
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Friday, January 15th, 5:28 ET
Importing Blogger Posts
CommentsI’m trying to import all of my posts from Blogger (which powers andrewbaisley.com) into this site so that I can replace that blog with this one. Not easy.
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