By “cool” I mean “old.” But still, if you know anyone who needs any of this stuff, hook a brother up. Nonprofit? Deductable donations? Email me and we’ll talk free. Buy in bulk and get a discount! Hacker’s PC, peripherals, and software – $170 or free Charities, please contact me – I’d rather donate this [...]
As tweets/txts/social feeds and other microcommunications take a larger share of the new media landscape, it’s hitting a utility wall. Some issues to solve: How do you make big decisions from microdata? Right now, everyone seems focused on real-time search with some component of qualitative measures on individual tweets. How do you tie microdata to [...]
I’ve recently the been letting go of my blind faith in page-wide semantic HTML. Today I found this old post from Jeff Croft describing the myth of content and presentation separation in HTML and CSS, which provides a realistic layman’s take on the situation: semantic HTML is too hard. While I agree with that sentiment [...]
When I earned my first paycheck from a real post-collegiate job, I headed out onto the town to Buy Stuff. I was intoxicated. I was finally self-sufficient and eager to celebrate my new found spending power. The first order of business: cast aside a lifetime of sartorial decisions guided by back to school sales, the [...]
This was initially an email, but I figured it’d be useful to repost it on my blog, in case I left anyone out of my mailing list who might like to reply. I’m sketching out a blog post on SMO (social media optimization) eclipsing SEO as a focus for online marketing. If you have brains [...]
Interesting statement from an article by Emily Yoffe on Slate (the rest of the piece is a mini-memoir on the Facebook experience and doesn’t add much meat): Brenda Bradley, a Cambridge University zoologist doing research on primate evolution [...] explained a theory about what drove the evolution of human intelligence: It was the need to [...]
Well, I’m mostly done with the “migration” part of this little exercise. I used some great scripts found online (will update with links later) that got my content and links over but lost some critical metadata including categories, timestamps, and published/unpublished settings. This led to the shocking dicovery that a full 40% of my blog [...]
Still pimpin’ sites, this time a good one: Rachel’s Mountain Reviews is a great place to find member-created reviews of ski and snowboarding runs across the US.
Her profile page should give you a better idea of what the site is all about. You can join and create your own profile using the “Sign Up” links in the upper right on every page on the site.
Yes, I love that widgety goodness, so I’ve set up Widget Death Match to create a home for the best widgets on the web. Currently running KickApps on the back end, I’m working on augmenting it with Pligg (Drupal-based Digg clone) so it’s easy for people to share and vote on widgets around the web.
Update: First off, it turns out that despite it’s popularity, Pligg is a POS. It’s not even based on Drupal! For that, you need Drigg, which is the bastard child of Pligg’s former dev talent. It was all too much, so I switched WDM to use Wordpress; it’s now waiting for a skin job.
A recent NYTimes Magazine article on microblogging provides a great definition of the value of Facebook statuses, tweets, and other online “status” communication tools: Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly [...]