Internet discovery machine
I’m posting about Tagalyzer again because we made some tweaks, which I think make it much more useful…
Now you can link to the home page which will display the news tab by default, or link to tagalyzer.com/blogs, /links, /pix, or /products, which will display the blog, bookmark, picture, and products/services tabs respectively.
These urls will also [...]
A Dogs Life
UPDATE: One of the Dogster crew, John, just posted about the Dogster ‘niche’ and he pointed out something that I was guilty of in this very post…the word ‘niche’ understates the market size. For sure it is just semantics, but the pet ‘niche’ is huge, and the Dog and Cat niches therein are massive in [...]
Serialized RSS works well
Last October I posted about the serialized RSS feed I set up for Cory Doctorow’s novel, Someone comes to town, Someone leaves town. It got posted on Boing Boing so subscriber numbers for the serial feed shot up to over 600 almost immediately, before dropping back as those early subscribers got to the end of [...]
Publi.sh!
OK, here’s something. Publi.sh is a service to create RSS feeds. It is super easy and super cheap (free actually), but has some good features:
Post new items on site, via the browser bookmarklet, or via email.
Sweet WYSIWYG posting interface for rich text formatting (with a full screen mode)
Supports time zones and future posting dates so [...]
Functional Feeds (and other stuff)
Richard McManus reminds me that I was working on a post about disposable and personal feeds…actually it builds on a previous post about wider uses for functional feeds.
The point being that I don’t think we have yet scratched the surface when it comes to RSS, which is going to permeate our media consumption habits and [...]
Amazoningly slow!
I’ve brought my fair share of stuff from Amazon and have never had a problem until now.
I ordered four books in early December. Some were for Jennifer for Christmas but I never actually expected them to get there in time knowing I had left my shopping a bit late. That accepted I kinda thought I’d [...]
Seth’s Blog: Find the ethernet port
Seth Godin wonders where’s the ethernet jack in his Toronto hotel room. My guess, there isn’t one.
(Someone else already guessed in the lamp stand, which would’ve been my first guess)