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The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
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Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since 1980 and
is recognized globally as an expert on both technical and business
issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related
startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed.
He's a columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera and
Linux Journal and frequently appears
in other publications both online and in print.
Additionally, Dave maintains four weblogs:
The Business Blog at Intuitive.com,
Ask Dave Taylor,
Dave On Film,
and
GoFahterhood.
Based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and
frequent guest on radio and podcast programs, as well as active member of
his community and busy single father to three children.
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Baby Blues
I may fancy myself reasonably literate, but I still greatly enjoy the daily comics page in the local newspaper. The problem is, of course, the local paper only has the comics in print, not online, and I'm not willing to throw away thirty pounds of wasted newsprint each year to get my comic fix. So, I hacked together my own... It's an interesting process, reverse-engineering different Web sites to get to the kernel of how they archive and organize a given comic strip, and I've been pretty successful at getting everything I want, except for Baby Blues. Dig around for a while yourself and you'll find that it's the least distributed, most carefully protected of all the strips I've found online. Even Peanuts and Doonesbury are easier to dredge up on other Web sites.What bugs me about this, of course, is that I really like Baby Blues and have even had a few phone conversations with one of the cartoonists, Rick Kirkman, back when my pal Rick Tracewell and I were asked to submit a bid on building their Web site. It would have been a way cool project, but it didn't happen, alas.
Anyway, I just want to add Baby Blues to my comic page and I'm stymied. If you have any cunning or ingenious ideas on how to do so, let me know!
On the positive side, I added the great strip The Norm, penned by Michael Jantze, with whom I have also talked about creating a site for him! My tiny brushes with comic fame, I guess. :-)
They've got a website that has several years of comic strips archived now - all except 2002 (which is what I wanted to read ... oh well)
Posted by: Susan on January 27, 2003 6:08 PM
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