When I was a baby, just two or three months old, I cried. I cried and cried and cried ’til my mother wanted to shoot her head off… or maybe mine. She thinks I was bored. Al Gore hadn’t invented the Internet yet, so I couldn’t keep my neurons engaged with that, and I wasn’t [...]
I’ve discovered a great blog by Leisa Reichelt, an information architect living in Sydney. It’s called disambiguity and has the clever tagline “pretty design pending.” I would like to declare that about myself, except with a slight change: “pretty hair pending.” The great thing about living in Maui has been that there’s never a [...]
February 21, 2006 – 4:14 pm
Adam at Darwinian Web is calling for a memetracker community in the form of a group blog authored by memetracker developers. I definitely want to understand better how the memetrackers work and why they often don’t work, as in the case of many domains that interest me. But what I want even more than an [...]
January 4, 2006 – 7:09 pm
So what about blogrolls? Are they:
A great way to pull new bloggers into the conversation?
Divisive and arbitrarily exclusive?
Potentially, and with some extensions, a way to share with others how we are directing our attention?
I didn’t do a blogroll until I’d been blogging for well over a year. I couldn’t put into words exactly why… it [...]
January 4, 2006 – 11:20 am
I’m trying out Johan Sundstrom’s Tag, Bookmark & Ping Greasemonkey script that allows me to add delicious tags to my Blogger posts for categorization purposes. It’s not going to look very pretty until I style the added list of categories.
This method of using delicious tags as Blogger categories is described on FreshBlog.
categories:
blogging
firefox
delicious
January 2, 2006 – 2:50 pm
Since Blogger ate half my custom-built blog template yesterday and I hadn’t saved an updated copy, I decided I might as well look at other options since I’m in for a lot of work anyway.I would feel depressed about the work I lost except that my intention with regard to blogging, at least on this [...]
December 29, 2005 – 7:47 pm
Prior to adding tech blogging to my mom blogging action, I had heard of del.icio.us but hadn’t considered using it. Once I started subscribing to tech blogs and reading them on a regular basis, I couldn’t escape the hype. I’ve begun using it but I have to wonder: what’s the big deal? So I can [...]
December 28, 2005 – 8:29 pm
Because on reddit I find insightful things like this prediction for the new year:
Another blog search engine will release a list of top 100 bloggers. Every blogger on the list will blog the news in the form of: “Wow, I’m honored to have made it onto the top 100 list” with a link back to [...]
December 28, 2005 – 7:07 pm
I finally started using Firefox 1.5 as my default web browser. I installed the Performancing extension that should let me blog from a split-panel in the browser window so I can immediately log pages of interest. I’m hoping this will be a blogging performance boost similar to what happened when I began using Bloglines. Before [...]
December 16, 2005 – 3:18 pm
The day after I recommended TypePad as an easy start to blogging to someone, the service completely crashes. Happily, I chose to use Blogger for this blog so I’m not completely incommunicado. I am very disappointed that the long post I wrote about my kindergartner’s reading progress may have gotten eaten up though. One reason [...]
