Not surprisingly, I had to comment on this. Topping the list of words most likely to make web users “wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard” was folksonomy, a term for a web classification system. “Blogosphere”, the collective name for blogs or online journals, was second; “blog” itself was third; “netiquette”,… Continue reading Top hated internet words
Category: Online
Mahalo
The tech and “Web 2.0” section of the blogosphere is all a-twitter over the alpha launch of the new “people-powered” search engine, Mahalo, by Jason Calacanis (of Weblogs, Inc. and Netscape-relaunch fame). I’ve been checking it out a bit, and have some comments… There’s definitely no mystery under the hood, technology-wise, here: it’s simply a… Continue reading Mahalo
lolcats
So have you been exposed to lolcats yet? If not, check out here and here. I can’t help it; they make me laugh. I mean really, really laugh. Especially the random ones.
Bend Bulletin’s RSS feed
Jake first found and posted this: the Bend Bulletin has their own official, bonafide RSS feed. It’s about time! That means I can finally take down my hacked-up RSS scraper feed for them. So, this is official notice that I’m deprecating my Bulletin RSS hackfeed, by implementing a redirect to the official feed, and then… Continue reading Bend Bulletin’s RSS feed
Disposable literature
Writer Charlie Stross has a blog post entitled Why the commercial ebook market is broken that’s a really good read and puts forth a thought I hadn’t really considered before: My take on ebooks is that they are — and should be seen as — the cheapest form of disposable literature. “Disposable literature.” I like… Continue reading Disposable literature
On a podcast…
So my friend Brian of BuzzTouch Designs has a regular podcast, each show lasting a few minutes (not super long, like some) and touching on local happenings—and on yesterday’s “episode” I was the guest star. Or interviewee. Or something. Basically, Brian called me up and we did an interview (I was in my “Brew Site”… Continue reading On a podcast…
wikinovel
I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later, but I don’t quite get how this is going to work: Publisher launches its first “wiki” novel. It’s: …a Web-based, collaborative novel that can be written, edited or read by anyone, anywhere thanks to “wiki” software, the technology behind Web encyclopaedia Wikipedia. The novel, “A… Continue reading wikinovel
Links
Just a collection of links to things I like and/or found amusing recently. dive into mark: Spaceships “Parenting is like an ongoing episode of CSI. You’re always following the evidence back to the crime.” The Bend Bigfoot stuff: Jake’s original link The KTVZ story My Hack Bend post My photographic evidence of Bigfoot on Pilot… Continue reading Links
Stump Wikipedia
I think we should start a new game: “What Can’t You Find on Wikipedia?”, or, alternatively, “Stump Wikipedia”. Seriously, they have over 1.4 million articles now, and it keeps going up. Is there a ceiling? Although you have to stick to real subjects… you can’t punch something in like “nitrate waffles” and expect a legitimate… Continue reading Stump Wikipedia
Akismet
I’ve started using the spam-killing service Akismet to handle comment spam on my three blogs. That, and instituted a basic moderation system for comments. I can’t say as I’ve been dealing with as much comment spam as some people, but I just got sick and tired of dealing with the problem myself and decided to… Continue reading Akismet