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The RidicuLOUs Five
For those that don't know him, Lou is a fairly obnoxious, formerly smelly law student who enjoys superlatives. In honor of his return as a reader to NoahBrier.com I've decided to institute a new "recurring" series: The RidicuLOUs Five. These links, w
June 9, 2005 |
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Bad Writing About Blogs
It seems like there's an article in a newspaper or magazine every day about blogs. The thing is, they all seem to contain the exact same ideas. What's worse is that they all do these stupid little things that bug me every time I read them (which is o
June 28, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 10 COMMENTS
Hot Web Trends?
Today I was asked a pretty loaded question: What are the hot web trends of the moment? Obviously that's a tough one and I wrote a quick answer, that I decided to put on my site in order to give it some more thought and hopefully get some respo
June 13, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 7 COMMENTS
Tagging Blog Posts
If you ask me, Jonas Luster has come up with the killer tagging app for blogs. tags4WP is a WordPress plugin
June 6, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
My Philosophy on Blog Comments (and Comment Buttons)
As I've explained on many occasions, I gave quite a bit of thought to the redesign of this site. I've been incredibly happy with the feedback I've received and have made some changes because of it (notice the deks are now a darker blue). The followin
June 8, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 4 COMMENTS
Newly Discovered: Thrillist
By know pretty much everyone's heard of Daily Candy. It's a daily email basically aimed at women that keeps them informed of the latest "thing." As explained on their webpage: "DailyCandy, a free daily e-mail n
June 1, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Life Lessons of Open Source
As I was reading this article about open source companies slashing prices to compete with each other, I made a quick note. Product = Fre
June 20, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Thinking About Virality
Looks like I'm going to be writing an article about viral marketing. So, as a way to get thinking about it, and hopefully get you guys to think about it for me a little bit, I'm going to get my thought process started right here. Here's what they
June 30, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
If Your Interface Sucks, Your Product Sucks
Things should be easy to use. I know it's kind of a broad statement, but it's true. I was explaining my feelings on this just last night. My feeling on any new technology is that if I can't figure it out in five minutes it's probably not wo
June 24, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
The RidicuLOUs Five
Well ladies and gentlemen, it's that time of the week again. Here's another five links dedicated to my taco-loving, Batman Begins-hating friend Lou. Enjoy. 1. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050617/ap_on_fe_st/pizza_prank;_ylt=AvMG2V6v7TKzXJ
June 17, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Creating Passionate Users
Why is creating passionate users such a hot topic? It could be because of the fantastic blog of the same name, or it could be something bigger going on. Kathy Sierra, author of that
June 23, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Waiting
After an evening of gambling and drinking those looking to return to New York City head down the escalator to the bus terminal. It's a depressed place without any of the plush amenities of the Casino floor. Yellow plastic chairs line the walls of the
June 5, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Friday Randomness
This is a random post because I feel like it. Since it's my page I can do what I want. 1. I made a slight change to the page by redoing the bar at the top, I made it a background image that stretches the width of the page. I felt like it had to be
June 24, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Further into Geekdom
I just finished getting the links on the side of the page working with the help of Magpie RSS and this handy PHP script. But tha
June 3, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
The Writing Process
I just discovered a great article over at Poynter Online all about the writing process. The author, Roy Peter Clark, suggests this process:
June 14, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Links Do Your Body Good
I'm headed down to Atlantic City for a friend's bachelor party so I figured I'd leave you all with five links to read for the weekend. (I wish I could come up with a good reason there are five. Maybe it's the number of drinks I'll have tonight? No. N
June 4, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Videogame Ideas and Future Trends
Just read a great article over at Guardian: Gamesblog titled "Ten Interesting Ideas in Vid
June 2, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
A Guide to Essential Free OS X Apps
It's been just over a month since my big switch and I haven't given a good Apple rundown lately. So, in the style of some great Mac OS X inventories, here's my guide to essential free
June 2, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Google + Del.icio.us = Search Context
I very randomly ran across this DM News article about adding context to search results and thought I'd share. (I was actually at a photo shoot and told to look busy,
June 15, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
HTML Problem Solved
Finally fixed my stupid Internet Explorer comment problem and for those of you scoring at home, all it took was adding this to my IE stylesheet: #comments blockqu
June 21, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Some HTML Problems
I'm looking for someone to help me fix a problem I'm having. If you check out this or any other page with more than one comment in Internet Explorer you'll notice that
June 18, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
The death of "browsing"?
On my walk to work this morning my mind somehow wandered to the term "surf" as it refers to the internet. I began to wonder if the verb makes sense in this context? For as long as I can remember people have talked about "surfing the net," but what do
June 17, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Darwin Has a Posse
Someone at Swart
June 30, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
On the Tagging Divide
Over at Plasticbag.org, Tom Coates has an interesting hypothesis on the shift in tagging from a filing to an annota
June 7, 2005 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS