Jim McGee. Google as a shared memory. I am finding that people don’t push around URLs as often as they used to. You hear a lot of, “I don’t remember the URL, look it up on Google.” I have also found that customers service is now often a assisted Google search. The key to making Google work even better is to…
How to build an RSS…
How to build an RSS digital dashboard. by John Robb. Caution: Good ideas within, may encourage actual thinking. Executives may want to avoid this. [Steven Vore: KM]
Darwin Meets the Digital Camera…
Darwin Meets the Digital Camera. Looking for the best 4-megapixel digital camera for summer shooting? Take a tour of 10 models and see which is the fittest. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]
Ziv Caspi: [1]With this I…
Ziv Caspi:With this I take issue. I think that the real power of aggregation chains (an information feed aggregator possibly preceeded by an RssDistiller-like stage that takes care of subscriptions, periodic pinging sources, scraping, etc) is that it bring all the relevant information to your client, not that it brings links. [more…] Wait: I agree that aggregators should bring contents…
From http://brentashley.blogchat.com/ [1]
From http://brentashley.blogchat.com/ The Joys of SSH I’ve been using openSSH (Secure Shell) a lot lately – it’s definitely my Tool Of The Year this year. Of course, SSH provides a commandline interface to your machine just like telnet, but with certificate-based security. That in itself would be great, but SSH’s ability to do secure tunneling, port and X11 forwarding and…
Cascading Style Sheets: Sample chapter…
Cascading Style Sheets: Sample chapter. I am so looking foward to the CSS book that Owen Briggs, Steve Champeon, Eric Costello and Matthew Patterson have written. There’s a chapter excerpt on WebReference. [ia/ – news for information architects]
Newspaper design: A return to…
Newspaper design: A return to simplicity. Mario Garcia’s article on simplicity in newspaper design (and redesign) is nice. Simplicity tip: “When in doubt, review the rules of the minimalistic style of Bauhaus artists. Context, without excess, is the key.” [ia/ – news for information architects]
Several [1] real-world [2] examples…
Several real-world examples of OPML directories. [Scripting News]
Today, an application [1] for…
Today, an application for Radio’s outliner that will be new for many. We’ve brought a feature from Manila into Radio Community Server, making it possible for people to create Yahoo-like directories that appear in their Radio weblogs. These directories can include other directories. They’re built on an open format, OPML; which can be created in any compatible outliner, including Radio’s…
Russ Lipton’s RadioDocs [1], on-line,…
Russ Lipton’s RadioDocs, on-line, ready for UserLand. [Scripting News]