links for 2006-08-08
- Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, August 2006 Really interesting review of statistics collected by Technorati about the blogosphere. (tags: blogosphere technorati blog statistics)
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August 2006
Super duper tie of your shoe laces!
Ever have your shoe laces come undone, over and over again? The usual mommy double know doesn’t work that well for me. Here’s an alternative: Ian’s Shoelace Site – Surgeon’s Shoelace Knot
links for 2006-08-07
- AOL Releases Search Logs from 500,000 Users Very interesting and possibly very worrysome. You’d think that releasing anonymous search results is no big deal (at least I did) but some examples mentioned in this brief article say otherwise (tags: interesting searh aol soflow privacy)
How to add a map to any blog page
I came across this interesting bit in LifeHacker: WikiMapia – The geographical wikipedia – Lifehacker. It teaches that using WikiMapia, you can add a map to any web pa...
Read more →Atlantic Magazine on Wikipedia
A really great article in The Atlantic about Wikipedia. Very relevant during this Wikimania weekend. > “Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge. ” (from “The Hive“) Check it out here! Technorati Tags: wikimania, wikipedia
links for 2006-08-06
- The Web-2.0, No-Bull-Shiitake Marketing Test by Seth Godin A good set of ideas about getting your (my) ideas to spread (tags: ideas sethgodin marketing soflow) - Pito’s Blog: Atlantic Magazine on Wikipedia (tags: wikimania wikipedia)
links for 2006-08-05
- BlogBridge: Wikipedia Topic Guide If you are going to Wikimania you might be interested in this collection of Wikipedia related blogs and feeds. (tags: wikipedia wikimania guide)
links for 2006-08-04
- Photoshop CS2 HDR A really wonderful photography site describes a technique for making digital photos really pop. (tags: hdr digital [photography](http://del.icio...
When is a native app not a native app?
Quite interesting analysis (at least to us Geeks) showing that the notion of a ‘WIndows XP’ standard or native UI is actually a myth. Read it here: Prashant Deva’s blog: How many of your Windows apps use the native Windows UI?
Mail rule to catch image spam
This is Mac specific, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people with more primitive computers could do something analogous. Basically we create a Mail rule that matches image spam messages: “The rule is based off of Bill’s observation that these spam emails always come from a different address, and the content type header (as you might now assume) begins with multipart/related'” Read more: A Mail.app rule for catching image spam – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
The role of RSS in Science Publishing
This article: The Role of RSS in Science Publishing: Syndication and Annotation on the Web is a very interesting survey of RSS and issues that folks in the Science community have to be aware of.
links for 2006-08-03
- FlightStats – Worldwide flight status / tracker with historical performance data Comprehensive airport and flight information: delays, actual times, estimated times, scores etc. (tags: travel [flight](http://de...
New York Times from the future
Look closely at this screen grab off the New York Times site. It was published on August 6, 2006. Look at the calendar on the wall. It’s only August 2, at least here in Boston. Maybe time moves quicker in New York? 
Technorati Tags: funny, newyorktimes
links for 2006-08-02
- My Brain Doesn’t Work That Way An interesting bit of ‘UI’ in MySpace for those of you who are interested in following this kind of stuff! (tags: myspace [customization](http://del.icio.us/...
Look closely: it’s a mermaid!
Yeah this is extraordinarily weird. As Yakov Smirnov says: “America, What a country!” It’s from EBay. Anyone want to bid? 
Technorati Tags: weird
July 2006
Check out BlogBridge 3.0
Just announced over on the BlogBridge site, BlogBridge 3.0. Check it out! I think you’ll like it. It has lots of new goodies, too many to mention here, but see the announcement for the juicy details!
links for 2006-07-28
- Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Why we all sell code with bugs Fun article about why there’s always bugs in software. If that’s a surprise to you, well… read this article! (tags: [software](http://del.icio.us/pitos...
“The Search” – A good read for most of you
If you read my blog chances are you’ll really enjoy John Batelle’s book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture