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Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software gave an outstanding talk at Yale which he has written up on his blog. For budding Computer Science majors, people getting into the computer world or business, there is a lot of good wisdom to be found here: My favorite passage is the discussion about the valu...
Read more →Recently there was a comment to one of my post asking the perennial question that non-bloggers ask of bloggers, (and bloggers ask of themselve all the time too 🙂 > “Hello, I was wondering if you could answer these 3 simple questions for a school project about blog...
Read more →Search Engine Optimization is a weird wacky world with experts, oracles, analysis, opinion and superstition. If you are into it, here’s a look at how complex and intricate SEO gets. But when there are gazillions of dollars involved, I guess is kind of inevitable.
I can’t figure out exactly how it was made. I would have expected to see the photographer and camera in each shot. They must be some kind of composite. Anyway, look at all of these amazing pictures!
Just check out this well argued, detailed piece, “Wake up to the dangers of a deepening crisis”, by Lawrence Summers: > “Three months ago it was reasonable to expect that th...
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I am a huge fan of Wikipedia. Here’s a new neat hack: Wikipedia Vision. This is a live, animated, world map, showing in real time each edit to the Wikipedia, as it happens. Makes the world feel even smaller, doesn’t it? It’s a cool way to learn about topics in Wikipedia that you may not have known about. Check out Wikipedia Vision
If you’re a regular reader you know that I’ve been studying Search Engine Optimization. As I’ve said before, it’s one of those topics that sounds like all common sense once you hear it, but then why didn’t you think of it yourself? Anyway here’s a good article with lots of good solid common sense about building traffic for your blog.
I just came across this thoughtprovokingbit called “How to be creative.” It’s a quick read in the short form and at least for me, hit home. Here is an expanded form of the same ideas, with illustrations. Recommended.
Everyone by now has heard that the Diary of Fake Steve Jobs is actually written by Daniel Lyons, a Senior Editor at Forbes. In a recent article, as an example, you can see, Fak...
Read more →13 port USB hub Yeah very geeky, eh? All I was able to locate was 7-port USB hubs. Why not daisy chain them? I have reason to believe that while logically it should not matter, in practice it does. My reason...
Read more →Over on Copyblogger, a good reminder of a bit of common wisdom: > “[snip…]Yep, it’s the “F” word. > Fear. > Fear affects us all more than we care to admit, and it’s especially insidious for writers. Writing online is one of those activities wher...
Read more →“A song about those very special people that make sure your computer works. They are called System Administrators.”“…. sometimes he just presses caps lock and walks away, and wow, hey, my password works again! … “ Funny! Technorati Tags: funny
I am not an expert in the semantic web but Freebase looks like it to me. I am surprised more hasn’t been written about it. It is absolutely amazing and head-spinning. I will have a hard time describing accurately, hence the headline. For me, it seems like Freebase does wha...
Read more →Check out this post from blog.payne.org: > Well, I can report that Time Machine (the new back-up & restore utility for Mac OS X) works. My 364 day old MacBook suffered a complete hard drive failure, only TWO hours after completing my first full backup. I hustled to the Apple store right away, so I didn’t miss my one-year warranty window. (from: Involuntary test of Time Machine) I will wait just a little longer before committing to Leopard. It’s one of those, if it aint broke then don’t fix it kind of situations…
“Establishing a secure wireless link between two gadgets could soon be purely a matter of holding them together and applying a vigorous shake.” (from NewScientistTech)
As you may have heard, I’ve been learning all about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) lately. I just came across this amazing little service called the DigPageRank Pagerank Checker. The story goes something like this. Google assigns every single page in the whole i...
Read more →Very interesting article in the New York Times discussing whether the death penalty saves lives, “According to roughly a dozen recent studies, executions save lives. For each inmate put to death, the studies say, 3 to 18 murders are prevented. Th...
Read more →Two nights ago, Friday, I got to go to the TechCrunch Boston party at The Estate in Boston (which oddly enough doesn’t seem to have a web site.) Those of you who know me will be ‘surprised’ that **I ...
Read more →We just released BlogBridge 6.0. It’s getting really good reviews so you may want to [check out what I’ve claimed is the mos...
Read more →I’ve come across these two services, priced similarly, sound similar. ID TheftSmart – The name sounds like they are a smart way to commit identity theft, but I suppose this is not what they mean. Lifelock – Their tag line is “Guarantee your good name” and one of their gimmicks is that the CEO has published his SSN for all the world to see which is fairly daring and clever. Do you know anything about the pros and cons of services like these, or the specifics of either or both of these?