Fast Company redesigned their site, adding social features. I must admit that when I first heard about the redesign I wondered if this was another example of a traditional company trying to hop on board with the latest thing (social features). I decided to check it out.
When I first visited the site my eyes bounced [...]
Dave Winer poses an interesting question:
Wouldn’t it be interesting if every certified A-lister, by convention, didn’t blog during the third week of every month. What if that idea caught on?
Yes Dave, that would be interesting…in an amusing but disastrous type of way.
Memeorandum wouldn’t update for a week (and sites like them).
Many non-bloggers would have nothing [...]
FeedDemon 2.01 Beta 1 has been released for registered users. Remember, this is a beta. Do not download and install unless you feel comfortable playing with something that quite might possibly be broken. If you do install it, back up your feeds, install in a different directory…you know the usual precautions.
This version is very different [...]
Playing around with WordPress for awhile (for the book) although it’s nice and I would recommend it for some bloggers, I need something a bit more, shall we say “professional” so I’m going to switch back to Expression Engine – if my license is still good.
I won one of the free licenses and I logged [...]
A visual aid to help explain what I meant about several points:
Blogs foster conversation.
If your blog doesn’t have comments, it’s not a blog.
If a blogger makes a mistake the blogger needs to correct it (not only the source).
That said, look at the graphic below (click to enlarge it).
It’s a screenshot of RSS Bandit, my RSS [...]
I found out about the FeedDemon Newsgator deal because I was looking through my feeds yesterday catching up on news. The first thing I did was check my email to see if there was some sort of announcement from Nick. Nothing. The next thing I did was contact a couple of people who I know [...]
I can’t believe I’m typing this, but I wish my RSS aggregator had email program features. There, I said it. Now let me explain:
While dealing with a nuisance computer issue I’ve been thinking about how I want to develop this site – the direction I want to take. The computer issues caused me to re-think [...]
I mentioned in my podcast that I was going to start commenting more on blogs…and that I regularly edit my blogroll. What happened almost immediately after I posted that podcast? Windows started giving me all kinds of errors:
Your system config file is missing.
Your drive is not formatted.
Your hard drive is going to fail.
Your computer is [...]
There has been a lot of talk about Robert giving up his link blog. I think it was time because he was spreading himself too thin. As per usual with blogs a conversation erupts and this one is about how time consuming a blog can be.
What I fail to understand is why people feel compelled [...]
