This bug affects every content management system using FCKeditior. Please pass on to everyone writing content on the web
If your using Firefox and Skype (almost everyone is), then most likely you have a Firefox extension that was installed with Skype that messes up content in the portal (and all other content management systems you post to).
If you look around the web there are currently 22,000 calls for help on this issue. It looks like this in your content:
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If you’ve seen this and wondered where it came from, its because you inadvertently have been adding it.
Please stop!
Here is how:
1) open Firefox
2) in the top menu (files, edit…) click Tools then Add-ons
3) in the add-ons window click Extensions
4) Find "The Browser Highlighter" and uninstall it
What is it: its a piece of unwelcome, poorly implemented software that ebay built and released with skype. It does things like look for Skype numbers on the web page and highlight them. You wont miss it I promise.
The basics of communication presented in this 1953 introduction to "the era of communication" (aka the information age) are still true in 2003. Transmission, noise, redundancy, distortion… misunderstanding. Charles and Ray Eames were husband and wife, not brothers. They were not initially architects. Ray was a visual artist. This is a classic Eames film and a great introduction to their creativity that spanned many industries.
Since your first day of kindergarten when you sang your “ABC’s” educators have used music to teach the otherwise boring lists, numbers, patterns and history of our world and universe. I don’t know if it is actually easier to memorize when put to music or simply more rewarding so you try harder – after all, it is very impressive to name all 192 odd countries in the world in 60 seconds to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance (see number 5).
#1 The periodic table
I would love to be able to memorize this song, but even I’m not that big of a geek.
#2 The Pi Song
This could have been horrible if it was not sung so well. This is another song I have little interest in actually learning but its always fun to know PI to at least 10 places…just incase.
#3 The Universe Song – Monty Python
I really love this song and sing it all time to remember how big the universe really is. This version is sang by Clint Black (I am from Texas you know, plus the original lacks such quality visuals).
#4 The Universe…Again
A catchy tune and inspiring version, but since it lacks the numeric information of the Monty Python version it will always live in its shadow.
#5 The Nations of the World
This is one of my favorites. I have the first 2 sections memorized, but I loose it when he gets to Africa. Unfortunately, like most of these songs the information is increasingly out of date.
#6 I am the very model of a modern major-general
While not necessarily conveying a lot of scientific or practical information (that’s kind of the point of the joke), this famous scene for the play the “Pirates of Penzance” does have a lot of historical perspective on what he nerds of the 19th century where talking about. From a time when things like “beings animalcules” (microscopic organisms) were first discovered. The late great science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote an essay about this song where he identified the meaning behind every strange and forgotten word. If you’re into retro steam punk, you’ll enjoy this vocabulary lesson.
Ok look, here’s the deal. I saw a new service on the web and decided to try it. The gimick of “plinky.com” is they ask you a question and you answer it. At first I dreaded the question, then rolled my eyes, 3 “road trip songs” how cliche, I thought. But as I answered, and realized how the site was drawing me in my autosearching for the cover, then asking “why?” it was kind of fun – hope you enjoy my answers:
This is the definitive road trip song. I think it is actually required by law in some states including Texas that if you use the word “road trip” you must play this song. Willie’s other great road anthem – “City of New Orleans” – although it’s about trains and a little more contemplative in mood is also a good song, but the who tape can’t be Willie or it wouldn’t be a mix! So for quite contemplation we turn to another classic…
When the mood settles down, and everyone is drawn into quite contemplation of the world beyond the window, this song reminds and reinforces the fact and the feeling that the world is a miracle. No song is better at conveying that sense of wonder that is necessary to truly be in the moment. Great conversation will follow.
If someone at your company is not watching your brand on Twitter (website: Twitter.comwikipedia: Twitter) you could be missing out on valuable market intelligence and an opportunity to interact with your customers in a way that makes your brand more personal. Plugging into twitter a little each day is a good way to “listen” to what is happening: in the news; in your industry; and with your customers and to the web. The web is changing fast and changing society as it does. Ideas are generated in small sub-cultures and explode outward in viral waves that influence consumer behavior, innovation, even language.
If you have not heard of Twitter, heard of but never tried it, tried it but didn’t “get it”, or seen the value but weren’t sure how to extract it, then this article is written for you.
I read this on Dries Buytaert’s blog (he is the guy that created open source content management system drupal). Through a presentation from Nicole Sullivan, a former member of Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance Team and co-author of O’Reilly’s upcoming book on performance optimization, I came across the following data points:
Amazon: 100 ms of extra load time caused a 1% drop in sales. (Source:Greg Linden, Amazon)
Google: 500 ms of extra load time caused 20% fewer searches. (Source:Marrissa Mayer, Google)
Google: trimming page size by 30% resulted in 30% more map requests. (Source: Marrissa Mayer, Google)
Yahoo!: 400 ms of extra load time caused a 5 to 9% increase in the number of people that clicked “back” before the page even loaded. (Source: Nicole Sullivan, Yahoo!)
I’ll be in Tokyo next week demonstrating Confluence Wiki and doing some admin training. It’s not my first time there but I thought I’d ask if any one has any suggestions for “must see”, “must do” activities. Ideas?
I installed Google Friend connect on my site tonight. What is it? It’s a way to turn your website into a community (and in the process, find out how unpopular you really are.) Please join my site…so my little avatar is not alone down there. http://www.google.com/friendconnect/
Almost all blog, wiki, and web content management tools these days support xml-rpc (a method that allows you to manipulate content remotely – for example you can have desktop software that lets you publish to your blog). We are getting very close to having the ability have truly free and interchangeable data. All we need now is a tool that asks you for the source site, the target site, and maybe some additional information (usernames and passwords, keep tags, keep dates, etc) and go. Of course we could also get fancy and add a filter to say only get content from the source that matches this criteria or that.
Want passionate, loyal customers. Want them to rave over your products. Want them to BUY MORE OF YOUR STUFF. Then help them look good. As obvious as this sounds, it is worth taking the time to think about. Think about what you can do to make them great, not you great. Watch this video. It might change your life, your business, everything.
