Links that wouldn’t go away
So how do I deal with those links that won‘t die? In a word: bullet lists. Going across the country on a Segway. That probably won’t be a four-day trip. Evidence for the value of the Long Tail and personal publishing, from Dave Sifry of Technorati. He promises a look at corporate blogging tomorrow; can’t [...]
Blogging style
My workflow for blogging has changed with NetNewsWire. With 264 subscriptions, I can’t read everything in detail. I scan headlines, pick out the ones I want to pay attention to, and open them in browser tab windows in NetNewsWire. Then I’ll read the tabs that are open, and close the ones that I’m done thinking [...]
Google search on the desktop…
Just not on my desktop. Interesting that Google Desktop Search is Windows only considering the constitution of its back end—you’d think that Linux and Mac OS X users would be home free. Lots of coverage today: Metafilter; Battelle; Scripting News; Doc.
The return of William Gibson
William Gibson’s blog, silent since the end of the author’s tour for Pattern Recognition, crackled back to life yesterday. The natural question, “Why?”, is the first word of the posting. I excerpt the rest of the post in its entirety here, because it’s short, sweet, and right on point: Because the United States currently has, [...]
Blocking comment spam, and other fun stuff
Very long time readers of this site (and you two know who you are) will remember it used to live at another domain, on Userland’s free servers. When I switched over, even though all the content migrated, the Google index didn’t pick things up right away so I left everything in place, put a note [...]
