Comments for Distant Traveler

Comment on Windows Live Writer with a Grammar Check? by Robert

Robert — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:56:43 +0000

Hi David,

You may want to try http://afterthedeadline.com/

There is a plug-in that works great with Wordpress. Dunno about Joomla though.

Cheers!

Comment on Windows Live Writer with a Grammar Check? by Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:17:47 +0000

I use live writer against my WordPress and Joomla/K2 sites and I do wish there was the grammar/spell checker. How have you got arround the issue?

Daniel

Comment on Getting Abstracts from SSRN in RSS form by Mike

Mike — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:35:15 +0000

Robert, thanks for the suggestions. Would be great if you could post some more details and screenshots as I am quite keen on getting this to work as well, but haven’t managed so far.

Comment on Scanning Textbooks And Digitizing Your Library Efficiently by Gareth

Gareth — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:21:35 +0000

Thanks for the website Robert, this is the most useful website i have found so far for turning my textbooks into Pdf Docs. Thanks:)

Comment on Scanning Textbooks And Digitizing Your Library Efficiently by Vivek

Vivek — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:36:04 +0000

The *tiny* Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 is the perfect scanner.
It blazes through 20 sheets a minute, scanning both sides at a time, for a throughput of 40 pages a minute!
The feeder holds 50 sheets, and it comes with a copy of Adobe Acrobat Professional.
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Comment on Sync Google Reader With Windows Mobile by beetzstream

beetzstream — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:37:08 +0000

BeetzStream just released SmartRssTouch, Google Reader Edition. It’s a online version, love to hear your feedback.

Comment on The R Project by Carlos Ortega

Carlos Ortega — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:18:50 +0000

Wow, It’s awesome that your prefer R!, I also love R because it makes me think and have my own functions!, check my website if you have time: http://using-r-project.blogspot.com/

Comment on Is Encouraging Entrepreneurship Bad Public Policy? by Robert

Robert — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:18:32 +0000

Hey Carlos, I noticed from you’re website that you’re a doctoral student studying entrepreneurship – which is great. I am as well!

Regarding your comment, I like Scott Shane’s body of work too, but I question his assumptions in the article he made. Specifically whether entrepreneurship policy should divest out of supporting small business and focus solely on those ‘high potential’ entrepreneurs. If it were an either/or world and we had to choose one thing, I would agree with him. But it’s not. Furthermore, to say that supporting small businesses is bad policy is a strong statement which I do not believe he successfully argued in his paper for the reasons I noted in my article above.

If you’re ever in Washington DC feel free to contact me. I’m always interested in meeting fellow entrepreneurship scholars!

Cheers, Robert

PS, BTW, I’m in the process of starting a new website http://www.robertvesco.com which will focus solely on promoting entrepreneurship research.

Comment on Is Encouraging Entrepreneurship Bad Public Policy? by carlos9900

carlos9900 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:42:46 +0000

When you were talking about this author, I was thinking he sound a lot like Shane. I really like him and he makes very good points. He has been studying entrepreneurship for decades and he should be one to listen. The question is, are all small business, entrepreneurship? And is all the entrepreneurship, in small business? I think both answers are not. He argues that subsidies to starting small business should stop, and that will never happen because all municipalities have programs to pick winners (in his words), even though the majority of the the small business don’t get social nor financial help. For the second questions, I would say that the goverments should support more intrapreneurship. There is not intrapreneurship policy, and this is key to economic development. Anyways nice blog. I’ll keep an eye on it.

Comment on Sync Google Reader With Windows Mobile by Robert

Robert — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:50:20 +0000

Hey Frank,

I’m glad you’re working on it as a feature. While most people may not need syncing, a good deal of folks do. For example, if you live in New York City, you will spend a good deal of time underground riding the subway or out of cell range. There’s really no better time to catch up on your RSS feeds than that. Unfortunately, most readers only work online, thus this option is unavailable. Some are available offline, but they don’t sync. Thus, you’d have to remember which feeds you read. Additionally, google reader has a golden star that you can highlight for particular articles that you want to follow up on. My understanding is that google reader’s api makes this syncable too.