January 17, 2006 – 12:28 pm
I was both sad and confused when I read that SearchFox was shutting down. I had hoped it might provide the next efficiency improvement in my feed reading through its personalized news reader. I wondered why they would shut down during what looks like a huge funding bubble without ever trying to attract a large […]
January 16, 2006 – 5:20 pm
The problem I’d most like to solve as a technologist and as a blogger is information overload. When I moved beyond mom blogging into tech blogging I discovered an entire new ocean of information. Today I feel like a tow-in surfer at Jaws, Maui’s North shore surfing site famous for its monster waves. Today I […]
January 15, 2006 – 11:57 am
Look at this cool idea: GoogleMontage builds a photo montage based on search words you provide. landismom of Bumblebee Sweet Potato found it using the Firefox StumbleUpon extension, a “collaborative surfing tool for browsing.” I haven’t tried that extension yet but it sounds fun.
Here’s the montage I built of where I am right now psychologically […]
January 12, 2006 – 1:55 pm
Here’s a categorization of blogs from a ComScore report on blogosphere behavior:
Politics/News
Hipster
Tech
Women (Authored)
Media
Personal
What?!? Why would blogs written by women be categorized by characteristics of their authors rather than by what subject they write about? Shouldn’t Michelle Malkin’s blog be categorized under Politics/News? Isn’t Dooce the best example of personal blogging there is? ComScore says […]
January 11, 2006 – 2:12 pm
Ah, the beauty of styling web pages with Cascading Style Sheets. But it brings such pain. I was banging my head against my monitor again today, trying to put together two simple pages. After three hours of that I wiped my tears away, blew my nose, and returned to blogging.
These are the things that bother […]
January 10, 2006 – 10:52 pm
Earlier this week I requested a SearchFox account. SearchFox is an RSS reader that watches how you read your feeds then uses machine learning to figure out what new articles you might like best. I was a little frustrated that I didn’t receive an email back and figured it might be my Web 1.0 yahoo.com […]
January 10, 2006 – 7:01 pm
I now follow more than 100 feeds via Bloglines. That’s too many to give the good posts the attention they need or even to find the good posts. Some of the feeds I subscribe to are feeds-of-feeds, like digg and reddit, so that adds another level of overload onto my overtaxed neural connections. I consume […]
January 9, 2006 – 2:23 pm
Google Pack, a “free collection of essential software,” makes me imagine a thousand little executable soldiers creeping onto my hard drive, preparing for a total takeover of my machine in 2006. I won’t be trying it but Improbulus offers a thorough review.
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January 8, 2006 – 8:12 pm
Finding it hard to get a blog post out with Rick out of town and the kids at each other. Here are some topics I’ve been thinking about:
Zuska on distrust of statistics coming from a Republican legislator and a women’s studies website. What I’m thinking: statistics don’t lie but sometimes they mumble or speak in […]
January 5, 2006 – 8:41 pm
I’m going to take another self-indulgent moment as I continue to populate the Who Is Anne list in my sidebar. Doing it this way, by making a Blogger post, means that my bio area will always be formatted just like the rest of the site. This is the beauty of content management, a beauty I […]
