Back in the day, memepool was one of my very favorite websites. It was more or less anonymous, had a biting wit, posted very unusual links, and updated frequently so it made for a good daily browse. It was just a guy or two, sharing their cool links with whoever found them. The design remains […]
August 21, 2005
Any Questions?
jumping_in = { ‘bandwagon’ => ‘true’ ‘initial_impression’ => ‘good’ ‘brain_candy’ => ‘yum’ ‘project_ideas’ => ‘too_many’ ‘time_for_this’ => ‘false’ }
June 15, 2005
Entertainment ruminations
World of Warcraft, the “subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game,” by Blizzard Entertainment, now has 2 million subscribers. Each player has purchased the CD-ROM for $49.99. In addition, there are three monthly payment plans: The month-to-month subscription plan costs $14.99 per month, the three-month plan costs $13.99 per month, and the six-month plan costs $12.99 […]
June 9, 2005
Couldn’t ask for more
The Big Presentation for an Important Client went Very Well today.
June 5, 2005
Small is the new big
Seth Godin: Small is the new big: “Today, Craigslist (18 employees) is the fourth most visited site according to some measures. They are partly owned by eBay (more than 4,000 employees) which hopes to stay in the same league, traffic-wise. They’re certainly not growing nearly as fast. Small means the founder makes a far greater […]
June 5, 2005
All revved up with no place (worthwhile) to go
Imagine the difference it would make if these people put their energy into the long-term problems of the world (energy, food security, poverty, human rights, corporate malfeasance, and political corruption) instead of the rather simple game of business. Excerpt: “Apparently none of these friends got the word that Silicon Valley’s best days are behind it. […]
April 3, 2005
The tough sell of honesty
Good post from Jeffrey Veen on his design process. Rather than figure out how to design for your audience, design for yourself after becoming like your audience. At that point, I find, snap decisions become good decisions. The problem, of course, is doing this commercially – doing it on cue. How do you write a […]
March 30, 2005
Welcome EVDB
Brian Dear, a former regular on The Well has launched EVDB, the events and venues database. EVDB, Inc. helps people find relevant events and share their discoveries with others. We’re building a worldwide repository of event and venue data that the whole world can use. Our goal is to help people discover all kinds of […]
March 21, 2005
How do zip codes work?
I’m back from vacation. There’s prolly some stuff to write about from the last week. In the meantime, if you ever wondered how the US zip code system works (or like cool data-driven Flash apps) check out Zipdecode. Oh, and turn on the zoom function.
March 10, 2005
Free Month of Netflix
If you’ve been thinking about trying Netflix, here’s a free month offer for new customers: – – – – – – – – 1 Month FREE DVD RENTALS FROM: Michael J. EXPIRES: 3/23/2005 (Quantities are limited.) Michael thought you might enjoy the Netflix DVD Rental Service and has sent you an invitation to try Netflix […]
March 1, 2005
Catallaxis
Daniel O’Connor recently launched “Catallaxis – The Integral Economics Weblog.” Today’s post, A Crisis of Vision, is a draft introduction to his forthcoming book. It’s a very good summary of the current economic dialectic, and seems quite reasonable and balanced. Long, but worth the read.
February 25, 2005
Ev surfaces
Evan Williams, founder of Blogger, today resurfaces with Odeo. [NY Times profile. Odeo blog.] Product will be introduced later this morning at the TED conference. Because of founder celebrity, and meme-full intersection with “podcasting,” expect blogosphere cacophony. Tech note: Odeo is built using Ruby on Rails, previously mentioned on this very weblog. Did I say […]
January 14, 2005
Future Of Apple
Well, with all the discussion about the Mac mini, the iPod Shuffle, iLife ’05, iWork, and other miscellaneous Apple-related announcements, you may be interested in this intelligence from DigiTimes. Taiwan contract manufacturers for Apple Product Contract maker Estimated shipment volumes for 2005 Delivery date iPod shuffle Asustek 400k-500k/month Available now iPod/iPod Photo/iPod Mini Inventec Appliances […]
January 6, 2005
Avoiding Software Fear
We had a social lunch today, seven people, all involved with web or application development. At one point, someone asked something along the lines of, “What is your obligation to customers to use ‘standard’ technology that will be around when they need to update their app?” Another person mentioned the ease of getting Java programmers; […]
January 6, 2005
Your Brain Wants To Participate
It’s all about the conversation! Fantastic post on writing style and reader engagement by the authors of the “Head First” series of books. Great stuff!
January 5, 2005
Four Hot Applications
It’s too late to say anything cogent about folksonomies, but this paper does pretty well. Check out the following four web applications and look at how they’re allowing users to tag and browse content. It’s a wonderful new wave of innovation. del.icio.us – Social bookmarks. flickr – Social photo sharing. Books We Like (Howard Rheingold […]
December 30, 2004
Revolution In The Valley
I had intended to read The Wisdom of Crowds, but I woke up with a severely frozen neck and upper shoulders, which was pretty bad for concentration. I cannot look up, and my left to right mobility is about 10 degrees, max. It’s hard to tell how this happened, since I have exerted approximately zero […]
December 30, 2004
Hackers & Painters
I read Paul Graham‘s book “Hackers & Painters” the other day. If you’re reading weblogs, you’re probably interested in technology, society, or both. If so, you’ll enjoy this book. Subtitled “Big Ideas from the Computer Age,” the writing is lucid and insightful, and I was filled with ideas while reading. Aaron Swartz thinks it should […]
December 28, 2004
Moveable Type 3.1.4 — How?
Would it be too much trouble for Six Apart to include a “readme” file describing how to upgrade their software? Apparently so. Here’s what I see when I download the new release: What am I supposed to do with this? Ironically, I open up the “docs” folder, and there isn’t even an “index” page? Where […]