March 2008
Twittering and Powncing →
If you’ve got no clue what that means, well Twitter is a “social networking and micro-blogging service” (so is Pownce although slightly different). These services are more for “off the top of…
Command Conquer 3 expansion released →
Kane’s Wrath now on shelves. This article now comes with a side of video, in addition to a main course of text.
Woopra - a lesson in how not to launch a new... →
This is bait-and-switch at its finest: I was reading the coverage of a new web stats service called Woopra launching on TechCrunch this afternoon and, because I’m a sucker for stats…
Convincing Pickup Line →
Robert Scoble on Long-Form Blogging, New Voices →
Video Courtesy Mashable! and embedded from Stickam.
Starting around 6:20 into the video… Pete Cashmore: “… the key question I wanted to ask you, which is, we’re asking ‘Blogs…
Stereotypes and the Blogosphere →
This weekends A-list navel gazing exercise is a subject (ironically) that has been debated before: that the blogosphere provides little original content and that most blogs don’t provide a value…
Stereotypes and the Blogosphere →
Whooping Woopra Blog Statistics Program →
I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at WordCamp Dallas, John Pozadzides blew the whole crowd away with his new blog statistics program, Woopra.…
RSSMeme Helps Bloggers Know What Their Readers... →
RSSMeme, now two months old, has carved out an interesting niche in the shared links aggregation market, first forged by Mario Romero’s FeedHeads application on Facebook, and later seeing
It’s hard to do original when there’s nobody to... →
I get a real kick out of it when people start pontificating on why the tech blogosphere is becoming nothing more than self-fulfilling chamber filled with the dull echos of me-too posting that…
Why can’t Microsoft do simple? →
Like most Windows users there are things about Microsoft products I really like and others that I would love nothing better than to take out back of the woodshed and put out of their misery. While I…
Here’s a hint - Not everyone lives in the U.S. →
It never fails to amaze me and frustrate me at the same the myopia that seems to surround the tech blogosphere and to a certain degree the internet at large. The myopia I am referring to is…
Relevance →
I found this poster on another blog (along with a few other really great posters)
and it really helps to describe where I am at at the moment.
For me, ministry is all about…
My social map is totally decentralized but I want... →
Here is a pic of my social map and the social software I use all the time for some (Twitter, Seesmic, Flickr, my blog) and some very occasionally.
We used to have our social online presence very…
Review: Ratchet andClank: Tools of Destruction →
Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction is a pretty big title for the PS3. It’s an exclusive in a world where exclusives count for a lot and the console has been losing exclusive titles left,…
Amish Paradise →
Last week’s column on education clearly struck a vein. Whenever reader comments go over 200 I know I’ve hit upon something that probably deserves a book, that is assuming people actually read books….
WordPress 2.5 and New WordPress.org Website →
It looks like WordPress 2.5 “Brecker” is making the WordCamp Dallas release date that many people were hoping it would make as the WordPress.org website gets a fresh design that reminds me of the…
WordPress 2.5 →
WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file…
“The comment “The author is a self-important dilettante.” is really...”
– How to Disagree
Can we get a little sanity here please →
I don’t hide the fact that I’m not big on this whole friending thing that is a necessary part of being a member of the various social media and social networks that are abounding all over…
Sickening Rwanda Revisionists →
A Montreal based conference will tomorrow (Saturday, 29th March) play host to four “minimizers” of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The revisionists dispute the version of events officially recognised by…
1,000 Miles North →
I've Been Living in the Recent Mac Past →
Not too long ago, you might recall I had the unfortunate opportunity to crush my MacBook Pro laptop while at Spring Training in Arizona, effectively just about doubling our trip’s costs. In a…
Goldfinger is innocent →
As a big James Bond fan, it’s news to me that Goldfinger isnt’ to blame for Ms Masteron’s death - coating your secretary in gold won’t actually kill her:
Her supposed cause of death…
Oh MacBook Pro, Oh Yeah →
This is just pure YouTube gold. “Oh jeez. This is amazing.” “Oh dude, that is shiny.” [via Valleywag]
Why SheGeeks Is So Awesomesauce →
Today I got a reply on Twitter from FaceySpacey.com that said: “I’m just entering the blogging space. How have you done so well?” Well, let’s recap:
RSS Subscribers
My subscriber…
Composite Pages and Embeddable Content →
(Note: this post exists in both written and audio form. They’re more or less the same thing, so take your pick. I elaborate a bit more in the audio, since I have a tendency to ramble, but…
“The badness of Australian films is now so firmly fixed in the mind of the public...”
– Screen turkeys deserve roast
Street View: expanding our horizons →
Posted by Bradley Bossard, Software Engineer Just over a month ago, we brought you a dozen new cities in Street View, and now I’m excited to say we’re topping that. We’ve added imagery for 13…
3 column tableless layouts not so hard with the... →
Multiple column, table-less layouts using CSS isn’t so hard the CSS Grids Builder tool provided as part of the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library. Just enter the number of columns, the widths…
The real roadblocks to data portability on social... →
I see that Yahoo has joined up with Google’s Open Social. That’s cool because it will let developers build gadgets, widgets, social networking applications, or whatever we’re calling these…
Street View in the API (or, How I Spent My Summer... →
Posted by James McGill, Maps API Team
For the past three months I have had the great pleasure of working as an intern with the Google Maps API team in Sydney. Unfortunately my time is now up…
More FeedDemon tricks - custom mouse buttons →
I’m one of the (very?) few people who don’t love all of FeedDemon’s keyboard shortcut goodness. I use FeedDemon like a browser - all mouse all the time. Of course, that’s kind of a pain when…
I {entity} Unicode →
These are available as bumper stickers and t-shirts:
Here’s my rhetorical question to you: why is this funny?
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely,…
SQL Virgin Again →
I’ve been in the coding dungeon lately, which explains why I haven’t posted for a while. One of the things I’m working on is moving some of FeedDemon’s data out of XML and into SQLite, which I…
Open Memo to all those folks friending me →
Let’s get one thing clear right from the start. I appreciate every person who thinks that what I have to say or links that I post are of value - value enough that they want to friend me on…
Share that link on FriendFeed using FeedDemon →
I have written before on a neat feature in FeedDemon that lets you roll your own Send To menu item that when selected will post the the service associated the the Send To menu item. In…
“Even though there are more slaves in the world today than ever, as a percentage...”
– Slavery’s staying power - Los Angeles Times
Large Hadron Collider →
Screencast and WordPress 2.5 RC2 →
2.5 is coming along thanks to the fantastic feedback you guys provided on RC1 (over 580 pingbacks and counting), and we’re now ready to show you a bit more of a peek with a short screencast…
Google Transit makes its Australian debut in Perth →
Posted by Oren Vandersteen, Data & Systems Manager, Transperth (Last week Eric Schmidt was in town to announce the launch of Google Transit for Perth, the first city in the southern…
FriendFeed API: Extend and improve FriendFeed →
We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It’s designed to make it possible for anyone to…
Our Unborn Kids Will Wear Your Web 2.0 Schwag →
Now 23 weeks into our twin pregnancy, it’s clear our son and daughter are already doomed. Although they don’t even have names picked out, they are already unknowingly marching down the path to…
Save a Developer. Upgrade Your Browser. →
SaveTheDevelopers.org :: Making The Web A Better Place: Dear God, please save us. Say no to IE 6! Our current campaign focuses on assisting users in upgrading their Internet Explorer 6 web…
Attention Bloggers - FriendFeed is your new nerve... →
I really debated on including the actual FriendFeed name in the headline because as is typical in the blogosphere I can just see the whining starting very soon over FriendFeed this and…
Is Eeyore Designing Your Software? →
This classic Eric Lippert post describes, in excruciating, painful detail, exactly how much work it takes to add a single ChangeLightBulbWindowHandleEx function to a codebase at Microsoft:
…
Microsoft partners with Facebook, Bebo, more to... →
In a blog post this morning, John Richards, Director of Windows Live Platform at Microsoft, announces a set of new partnerships signed by Microsoft and 5 major social networks: Facebook, Bebo,…
Friendfeed and Twitter: Take Two →
FriendFeed’s new ability to allow users to post comments on tweets back into Twitter sure took the blogosphere by storm.
Steven Hodson says that this, together with adding the ability…
Why Do Palestinians Get Much More Attention than... →
The world is unfair, unjust and morally twisted. And rarely more so than in its support for the Palestinians — no matter how many innocents they target for murder and no matter how much Nazi-like anti-Semitism permeates their media — and its neglect of the cruelly treated, humane Tibetans.
Its not all about search: Yahoo! and cloud... →
Yahoo! announced today a new collaboration agreement with Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), which is owned by India’s Tata Sons Limited, to utilize Tata’s giant…