Sweep The Sleaze
I came across this article over on iA (via @gruber, I think), and was really struck by its thesis, namely: Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons…
I came across this article over on iA (via @gruber, I think), and was really struck by its thesis, namely: Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons…
Beardyman vs. the Fluteboxer: …Makes me want to be a Google employee. And to be working in their London offices. Yowsa.
Well, okay, now that I have that little bit of headline rumor-/scaremongering out of the way, I’ve got to say: interesting things are afoot in the Automattic/WordPress world these days. First off, Matt Mullenweg announced a few days ago that,…
It’s hard to believe, but Google, the current King of the Internet[s], sprang up from humble beginnings at Stanford back in 1998. Want proof? Here are the pictures that capture the ragtag nature of the first revision of the Little…
I’ve had time to mull over the implications of my previous post on technological solutions to what ails journalism and have come to the conclusion that a solution based on high technology would ultimately fail for the same reason that…
I have a very simple question: why do I continually get bombarded with penny stock scam image-based spam at work and yet my GMail address has yet to get a single one? Why does my corporate identity lose out? Why…
Our living room air conditioner has been acting fairly fritzy as of late, running at full bore for 5 minutes or so and then summarily shutting off and flashing “E1” on its LCD readout. In vain did I search the…
This is pretty sweet. Visual PageRank View is a tool that crawls your site and visually displays the Google PageRank for each of the links on your site, giving you an idea of just how “popular” Google thinks each of…
We’ve been over the incredibly craven behavior of Yahoo! with regards to helping the ChiComms oppress their people, but the mainstream media seems to have largely ignored the issue. In a first big stride, however, the Washington Post’s editorial board…