If you were intrigued by my previous post about the Clock of the Long Now, I came across a nice, philosophical and instructive article about it: “But even if the Clock of the Long Now fails to last ten thousand years, ev...
Over on our new BlogBridge site, we’ve been working on a new set of Screencasts. We discovered various problems with what we had done before and thought, let’s try to make things better (as they say at Philips.) I thought I’d share my stream of consciousness notes from that experience. - Wow, thos...
From LifeHacker (one of my new favorite sites) comes a pointer to a site called FeedsThatMatter. What it seems to do is to look at public subscriptions listed in BlogLines, do...
Does creating something that demonstrates that a security scheme doesn’t work make you a suspect yourself? Does pointing at it from your blog make you of questionable character? I suppose you might even wonder about clicking on the link below. Does that say you are a bad person? I hope not. Check this out, it’s pretty insterezsting and instructive! Chris’s NWA Boarding Pass Generator
“Without a doubt, the concepts behind AJAX are providing the catalyst to move the web from its old clunky “send it all back the server for an update” into the thick client “desktop” feel the average computer user has come to expect.” Check out the next meeting of BostonPHP, October 25, 6:30pm, at IBM/Lotus in Cambridge. Get meeting details here. Technorati Tags: PHP
Well it’s over and I am getting ready to head back to real life. Pop!Tech remains my favorite conference (and not just because I can drive here from my house.) It’s hard to capture what it’s like but if you are interested, here are some links that could give you a flavor. Thanks to all the diligent ...
Ok, Pop!Tech is a wonderful conference, already, and I am learning and stimulated and all that. But why, oh why, is everyone an author, thinker, serial entrepreneur, extraordinary, world renowned, and inimitable? Inventor, artist, composer, musician, educator, philosopher. And these are not the speakers, these are the people sitting next to me and in line with me in the bathroom. Yikes! Technorati Tags: poptech
Bloggers and others are notoriously obcessed with metrics: how many hits, what’s my rank etc. As a result there are numerous services which try to analyze sites and blogs etc, to help measure this. Not insignificantly, a site’s revenue potential is tied closely to this as well. [Seomoz.org has put...
One correspondentasked: “Isn’t this what bb:library is about or Technorati Blog Directory or egs. like Corante Web Hub, Global Voices, World Changing?” Well, it might be a **reinvention of th...
Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia who later quite the project over differences in vision, just announced a direct competitor to the project: Citizendium Via Modern Dragons, via KurzweilAI.net
Yesterday’s post drew some interesting comments and emails. Several people wondered what the heck I was talking about. More about that later. First: A couple of good analogies were raised. Isn’t this idea a lot like Digg? Or like Top Ten Sources? For me the Top Ten ...
Before I discuss this new product idea I am turning over in my mind, I want to say a few things about why I keep working in this area. I mean there are so many people working on aggregators, and after all Microsoft is building it into IE, and it’s been in FireFox for a while. Why bother? I’ve thoug...
I don’t know if you followed the spat a few months ago. This book, “A million little pieces” by James Frey was chosen by Ms. “O” (Oprah) for her book club. A lot of fanfare, a lot of press. It’s a memoir about one man’s experien...