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The Gingerman was the site for the first Austin WordPress meetup.  About a dozen folks showed up including a local member of the WordPress team who passed out cool t shirts. I wasn’t able to stay long so I’m hoping to pick up the details of the last part of the meeting off others blogs. […]

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The Gingerman was the site for the first Austin WordPress meetup.  About a dozen folks showed up including a local member of the WordPress team who passed out cool t shirts. I wasn’t able to stay long so I’m hoping to pick up the details of the last part of the meeting off others blogs. […]

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A New York Times article mentions me. One of the best-loved twitterers, Paul Terry Walhus, a gray-haired blogger from Austin, Tex., has 9,177 friends and 1,851 followers, according to the tracking site Twitterholic.  (my name was mispelled in the article) The article goes on to say: At least one politician has tuned into the service. […]

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Web 2.0 Expo: Justin(e).tv Is On the Air New media connoisseur Justine Ezarik has strapped on Justin’s camera rig at the Web 2.0 Expo. Justine’s twitter page is http://twitter/ijustine and her blog is at http://www.tastyblogsnack.com/  If you can’t make it to the web 2.0 expo this is the next best thing.  Or maybe it’s the best […]

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Villa Muse, a $1.5 billion mixed-use project to be announced today, would have it all, developers say. But will it really happen, especially when so many other plans for a big studio have cropped up in the past and come to naught? This time, developers promise, it’s the real deal. And if all goes as […]

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What is the price of presence?  Well you can have it simple and have twitter.  It’s a no brainer to get up and running.  You can tweet away instantly and give everyone of your followers updates.  And you can follow your friends. With Jaiku you get bells and whistles.  You can create your own little […]

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Holy cow!  I just got this “direct [twitter] message”: jeffb @springnet: You get a shout-out in this Slate story: http://www.slate.com/id/2163861?nav=tap3  Austin, TX “According to tracking site Twitterholic, the top 10 twitterers have thousands of people following them—a literal cult of personality. Paul Terry Walhus, a gray-haired Austin coffee-shop blogger who has 8,789 friends and 1,722 […]

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thanks to my twitter friend http://twitter.com/bonelessmonkey for this inspiring blog entry and the back pat. I started bugging my friends and family to join. No takers. “Why am I doing this? What’s the point? *DING* What’s this on my twitter page? A follower? What the Halle Berry!? Who is following me? And Why? Ooooohhhh, this […]

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