I’ve been meaning to redesign this site for a while, to set aside more screen space for writing, both to make it easier to read longer pieces for readers but also to help me focus more on just plain old writing instead of all the other junk I used to keep here. As I sat …
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Top 10 Reasons Why Your 5 Tips About 7 Cutting-Edge Technologies will annoy me
Seriously, the top of digg, delicious, reddit, and every other link aggregator seems to be clogged with Lists of Vital Things You Should Know. After seeing dozens of them fly by every single day, I’m starting to think it’s just lazy headline writing that gets promoted up thanks to our nanosecond attention-span RSS readin’ latte …
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Vox Love
From an interview with Jason Kottke: When I first started putting my thoughts online in the mid-90s, there was little about my life that I wouldn’t put online, but now it’s almost the opposite situation. What he said. A year or two ago I realized I didn’t really feel like sharing everything going on with …
Buzzplant: none more crass
Lately I’ve been getting a steady stream of unsolicited bad marketing and PR mail. People promoting products are stooping to new lows in order to try and get legitimate weblogs to promote their clients for them. It’s fake viral buzz hidden behind whatever legitimacy a participating website can offer. I’ve seen the quality and cluefullness …
Lifehacking this week
I should have mentioned earlier that I’m helping edit Lifehacker this week, as a favor to Gina and Keith. The last time I did it, I went a bit nuts writing a ton. For some reason I was motivated to get as many big posts in as possible. This time around, I’m busy with a …
Pave the Planet
I’m impressed with Google Earth. I hadn’t totally got what was cool about it until I built my first Google Earth app earlier today. The documentation is pretty slight (it’d be nice if they simply broke down which elements are required and which ones are optional) but they have a good demo file you can …
Most Improved, 2005
This is a long time coming, but I’ve really been enjoying Jalopnik the past few months. When Jalopnik and Autoblog and others like it launched, I was disappointed that these new car blogs were so boring. Cars are one of the most universal of hobbies, and you’d think it’s easy to find someone nuts about …
The zeitgeist
12/10/2005 – Saturday Night Live does a joke commercial on the complexity of the Medicare prescription drug plan, and the joke includes a bit about RSS feeds and podcasts. 12/12/2005 – Arrested Development episode has a joke where the twin brother Oscar is told he can’t update “but i’m oscar dot com” and he replies …
The revolution will be ajaxified
I was delightfully surprised when I visited Blogger today without a cookie and saw a new ajaxy recently updated scroller on the front page. Here’s a 1.2Mb AVI file of it in action. Just to reiterate a point I made early this year, there was a version of the blogger.com homepage that did exactly this, …
Putting the fun back in fundraiser
When you run a large community, you invariably get some members rising to the top in terms of participation and reaction from others. It’s a natural part of any community and as fast as you can dream up ways to temper their contributions or wait for them to leave out of boredom, someone quickly fills …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 