This guest post on TechCrunch is a not only a good read, but an awesome example of how to write a blog post. The only thing that’s really wrong is the number of typos. I realize that proofreading such a long post is difficult, but with the amount of effort that went into culling the [...]
Tagged Adam Rifkin, TechCrunchThere is a reason that people who blog are quitting Twitter. Those people include John Mayer, Paul Carr, and (sort of) Leo Laporte. In case you didn’t hit the links (and who has time for that with all the Information Overload and whatnot?) the reason is: Length of Life. Not the life of the people [...]
Tagged Blogging, John Mayer, Leo Laporte, Paul Carr, TwitterFrom a (sort of) recent Facebook status update: While I agree for the most part with the “Tumblr > Twitter” sentiment, well, that’s kind of obvious. Twitter is definitely good for some things (mostly sharing short fleeting thoughts, but also sometimes for sharing links, and conversing with people who use Twitter as their main form [...]
Tagged Blogging, Diatribes, RSS, Social web, Tumblr, Twitter1. Host your own images The first and most obvious is that if you hotlink from someone else’s site, you have no control over if that image stays on the web. If they shut their site down, the image is gone and you have a broken image link in your post. And I also recommend [...]
Tagged Blogging, How ToMzng hw y cn ndrstnd ths wth n vwls rght? Anyway, haven’t posted in 10 days, so what better way to rectify that than by posting videos? See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Tagged Blogging, Flutter, Lifestreaming, Microblogging, Social web, The New Web, Twitter, Videos, YouTubeYou can click for a larger view… I’m not the only one who’s noticed. Internet Explorer 7 blocking Google AdSense IE7 disables javascript with the security setting on “high”, which would not allow AdSense ads to show along with numerous features of most websites. IE6 works exactly the same and the phenomenon is definitely not [...]
Tagged Google, Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Internet Explorer 7Image via Wikipedia First post from Google’s new Social Web blog. Exciting!
Tagged Google, Google Friend Connect, Social web, WeblogsAnd I’m willing to bet most people don’t even realize it. Since Facebook added comments to just about everything that passes through the News Feed, it’s created a microblog for every member of the network. I now feel justified laughing at people (at least, behind their backs) who thought I was weird for having 3+ [...]
Tagged Facebook, Jaiku, Tumblr, TwitterI just tried BlogIt. It couldn’t post to this blog. It said it would try again later, but how is that going to work? Do they have a message queue, and will just keep trying until it goes through? I will be interested to see if it does get posted here. In case it doesn’t, [...]