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10 Links of Apology
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, been busy at work and home. I'm giving my big presentation on technology and the millennial generation next week and I've been busy getting everything together. As an apology for not completing my blogging duties, ...
April 12, 2005 |
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A Note on Vanity Plates
[Editor's Note: I got this email this morning from my friend Lisa, after reading it and laughing quite a bit, I asked her if she'd mind if I posted it to the site. She said "no, I wouldn't mind." So here it is.] I'm not really sure why I f ...
April 1, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 6 COMMENTS
A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Del.icio.us
[Anyone that reads this page with any kind of regularity knows that I really love del.icio.us. I keep all my bookmarks there and it runs the bookmarks toolbar on the right side of my page. However, I've realized t ...
April 18, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
A Thought on Bundles Before Bed
I just found out about the bundles feature on del.icio.us. Essentially it allows you to bundle a number of tags together and create something of a tagweb. Needless to say o ...
April 1, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Aha Moment: Firefox is Becoming My OS
Yesterday I installed another extension for Firefox. This one is called <a href="https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&category=Entertainment&numpg ...
April 22, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
SOCIAL NETWORKING | Noah Brier
Annotating on Flickr with a Side of Social Networking
I ran into the "memorymap" tag on Flickr the other day thanks to Waxy.org (which is actually where I get lots of my links) ...
April 8, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
Blog Problems. Anyone Have Any Advice?
For whatever reason I'm having some problems getting things posted. I wrote up a whole long entry with lots of fun links last night and every time I try to save it, it just doesn't work. Does this happen to anyone else? It says "Document Contains No ...
April 27, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Dealing with Information Overload
For whatever reason I've been talking to a lot of people lately about how I handle the massive amount of information online. The problem so many people run into is that there is so much out there they find themselves overwhelmed, a situation that's b ...
April 20, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Do You Live in Massachusetts?
Well, how about a Movie? <a href="http ...
April 19, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
First Thoughts on My New PowerBook
Last night I finally got <a h ...
April 23, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
I Heart Google
Way to go guys, just when people start talking about Yahoo! you go ahead and DOUBLE the storage for every Gmail account. Sweet! (Note: This is not to say that I'm not still incredibly impressed by Yahoo!) This is ...
April 1, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
I Made The Switch
Friday was a big day in my com ...
April 16, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Innovation Omissions
As I was walking to the subway this morning I realized I made a glaring omission in talking about innovation and openness in technology (and specifically tagging). I forgot ...
April 22, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Is Tagging Really Useful?
Today seems to be tag day. Now it's time to answer an essential question of tagging: Are tags really useful? The question was brought up by Tim Bray (which I found via <a hr ...
April 22, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Mobile Phones: The Ultimate Platform?
Quick, who's the biggest manufacturer of cameras in the world? Nope, it's not Kodak. Not Canon or Sony or Pentax</ ...
April 18, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
My First Firefox Lifehack
<img border="0" alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" src="http://sfx-images.mozilla.org/affiliates/Butt ...
April 27, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
My First Quicksilver Question (and Another Software Update)
As I'm getting a little more comfortable with Quicksilver, I think I've got my first question. This is for the Merlin Mann's and the Dan Dickinson's of the world (and yes I only put their names in so th ...
April 25, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Need Something Fun to Read?
Instead of being all serious and boring as usual, here's a link to some fiction to read. I mentioned The Morning News a while back</a ...
April 18, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Newly Discovered: Firefox Extensions
[Editor's Note: I think since this is the third, I can officially call Newly Discovered a frequent section of the site that discusses the new stuff I'm finding all the time that I think is cool.] This week's Newly Discovered is going to hig ...
April 12, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Newly Discovered: Tricks of the Trade
[Editor's Note: This is supposed to be an ongoing series that highlights new things I find. This is number two. I guess that only leaves the question of whether two counts as a series.] Today's newly discovered is a great blog called <a hr ...
April 4, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Picking on Picky Eaters
Just read an old Slate article titled "The Omnivore: Learning to Eat Everything" and is by (former?) Vogue food critic Jeffrey Steingarten (link via <a href="http://rc3.or ...
April 22, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Quotes, Quotes and More Quotes
For work today I was compiling some quotes and I thought they were worth sharing. In a way, they're like lifehacks from the great thinkers. Enjoy! Albert Einstein "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individua ...
April 13, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Some Rambling Randomness
[Editor's Note: I've been trying to post this for two days, sorry for the delay. Don't know what's been up with my host, but they claim it's solved now.] Here goes a quick post of randomness before bed. I'm quite tired, so if something does ...
April 28, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Some Rambling Randomness (Part 2)
[Editor's Note: This part wouldn't post, so here it is.] New/Future Web Stuff - I laughed when I read this today, because it's someth ...
April 28, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Tagging: Individual or Social?
Are tags an individual or a social thing? This is the question that Arienna of Blogaholics and I have been going back and forth on in the comments of my "Annotating Flickr with a Side of Social Ne ...
April 22, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Teaching New Bloggers How to Attribute
What do you do when you find your writing on someone else's site without a proper attribute? It's a hard thing to deal with. Go take a look at this Firefox 101 post from RSS Bl ...
April 6, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
The Paradox of Wireless
I was just thinking about wireless technology for this presentation I'm giving in a few weeks and realized that the more we choose to unplug our devices from the grid, th ...
April 5, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
SOCIAL NETWORKING | Noah Brier
The Problem with Social Networking
I've written lots about the problems with social networking. It's generally not localized, online contact tends to precede physical contact, etc. When I ran across Jyri Engeström's entry titled <a href="http://www.zengestrom.com/blog/2005/04/wh ...
April 25, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
WhatsInYourFirefox
<img src="http://photos7.flickr.com/10165317_e2880bf709_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000 ...
April 21, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS