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Lead Generation With AI, Powered By Zapier
Today I attended a webinar hosted by Jane Zhang from Zapier’s product marketing team. The focus was on Zapier’s new AI agent offering, with the webinar providing some real concrete examples of how AI agents can help a business with their lead generation efforts. There’s a lot of buzz, hyperbole, and misinformation in this space…
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Decentralizing the Internet: The Case for Stronger IXPs in Alabama
The “Cloud”, for all the marketing lingo and buzzwords flying around about it, is actually quite simple. At it’s core, the Cloud is simply computers connected across diverse areas and networks. That’s it. There’s no incantations or magic spells holding our digital age together – though on second thought, the engineers that design and keep…
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Fellowship With The Titans
A gentle fog hung over Birmingham, Alabama this morning – visible as far as the eye could see from the 20th floor of the immaculate John Hand building. Industry and commerce humming about below the club floor powered by technology our ancestors couldn’t fathom in 1912 when this building joined Birmingham’s emerging skyline. The innovations…
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Join the REVOLUTION, Self-host Your Content!
I grew up on a more open internet. It wasn’t perfect, but generally speaking, gatekeepers were significantly less common than they are today. On the 2025 version of the internet – algorithms/AI and corporate hucksters get to be the primary gatekeepers of information. If a post isn’t shared on Facebook, X, or Reddit – likely…
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When Fiber Fails, Wireless To The Rescue
Pictures are worth a thousand words – and this one has a story indeed. Shown in the center is a Mimosa ethernet NID. It’s connected to an outdoor wireless internet CPE used for this customer to get internet. It was part of a recent install where a customer upgraded from unreliable fiber internet to Lightwave…
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To Walk With Borrowed Light
The first breath of life is often followed with a scream. A startling statement from the newly born of their changed circumstances where they’re no longer in a safe and warm comfort zone. Discontentment and frustration sets the tone for a new battle of attitude that will follow the rest of their days. From birth,…
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A Communion of Conflict
Today, I take a departure from the usual technical subjects that occupy my writings, opting instead to delve into one of the most fervently discussed and debated theological issues within the Christian Church. A subject that has not only challenged scholars and theologians but has also engaged the hearts and minds of believers for several…
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What’s the A.I. eating for dinner? Your Threads of course.
The A.I. is hungry and your juicy data is on the menu. A new social media platform called “Threads” made its grand debut to the world yesterday with the stated goal to be the “public conversations app with 1+ billion people on it“. This launch comes in the wake of competing platform Twitter recently deploying…
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A Little Too Close, A Little Too Connected
I’ve been a citizen of the Internet as long as I can remember. An early adopter of Facebook and Twitter, an avid user of streaming services like Netflix and Spotify – even old school services such as Grooveshark, the OG online music streaming service. (Remember that?) Gmail was my email, Amazon was my store of…
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ChatGPT – an actually disruptive new technology.
Magic. This is the first word sailing with haste through my brain after witnessing ChatGPT effortlessly write reasoned responses to my questions and prompts. For the uninitiated, ChatGPT is an A.I. powered chatbot built on top of large language models (sometimes called LLMs) that enables a user to prompt and question it through a human-centric…