For 10 months I had a public profile on Twitter. I shared the minutae of my days or what I was thinking at the time, links to stuff I was reading, or jokes with friends. Somewhere along the way a total of 150 people started following me. I only knew or knew of about 60 [...]
[14 Jan 2008]
Worth a listen: this CBC Search Engine podcast episode on the Kremlin’s use of bloggers as citizen propagandists, as well as government-paid hackers and saboteurs. The Kremlin piece starts about 6 minutes and 17 seconds into the show [MP3 download]. And you can find the T-shirt in the photo accompanying the post on CafePress.com.
[10 Jan 2008]
Useful, interesting and/or fun, these are eight blogs to which I have recently been introduced. Clientside I mentioned Clientside before as a place to find documentation for Mootools, but it’s also the home of a very robust blog on JavaScript and other front-end development topics. FOSSwire News, reviews, and tutorials about free and open source [...]
[27 Aug 2007]
Accessibility expert Joe Clark writes about specific instances when web authors should not worry about web accessibility. The philosophy that Clark is asking us to adopt is a simple one. From this article: It’s not even that new, but what certainly is new is the fact that I’m calling for everyone to take a pledge [...]
[1 Jul 2007]
SimpleHelp.net offers a list of 7 plugins to install immediately after WordPress Part of the joy of WordPress is the extensive number of plugins that offer added functionality and make blog management easier. Here are five of my favorites. WP-Cache UPDATE: Try WP Super Cache which turns your WordPress entries into actual HTML pages so [...]
[26 Jun 2007]
Are you a single-topic blog devotee? Or do you prefer bloggers who write about a range of topics, as long as their words are snappy? Or does it depend on the stated focus of the blog and what you hope to get from it?
[15 Jun 2007]
It’s still in beta, but Amazon.com has launched a new contextual advertising program for its Amazon Associates. Unlike AdSense, this program will comb your content for relevant text and link it to products in Amazon.com’s inventory. If a site also has Amazon’s preview enabled, users will see a little product flyover when moving their mouse [...]
[27 Mar 2007]
Blake Robinson of TechCrunch compares Twitter, Dodgeball and Facebook status. His take: I think though that Twitter has a limited appeal. Sure it’s cool at an event like SXSW, but I can’t see it maintaining much functionality out of a convention/festival environment. Trust me, it does. There’s the obvious point: it’s fun. As Jason put [...]
[21 Mar 2007]