Category Archives: Blogging

Here is a CAPTCHA I got yesterday: I really hate CAPTCHAs. For the most part I can’t read them. They’re a frustrating extra step when you’re trying to get something done, and a terrible stumbling block to any user-oriented process … Continue reading →

Pat Matthews, founder and president of local superstar Mailtrust, posted this in his twitter feed yesterday: Twitter makes blogging virtually irrelevant. Twitter makes email more relevant than ever. [ Twitter ] Provocative thought. Damn shame it’s limited to 140 characters. … Continue reading →

The Car Talk guys say these are the magic words: “I’m in trouble and I need your help.” So. Here’s the help I need: We’re overhauling our company weblog. Researching what makes an informative blog, what makes an active blog, … Continue reading →

With the rise of cheap cameras and YouTube it’s more and more common to see video, talking commentary in the place of written text. There’s Bloggingheads of course, and TPM.tv. My brother does a spot or two occasionally. And some … Continue reading →

The “subscribe to my RSS feed” lead on some web sites is starting to get old. I’m not going to link here because I don’t want to look like I’m singling anyone out. But I’ve run across a lot of … Continue reading →

Most of the ones I forgot are ones that are deprecated, although I completely blanked on all the header tags. Which is odd, since I use those all the time.

Cute. My Liberal Identity: You are a Social Justice Crusader, also known as a rights activist. You believe in equality, fairness, and preventing neo-Confederate conservative troglodytes from rolling back fifty years of civil rights gains. Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com … Continue reading →

If you read my brother’s weblog Art Machine by RSS, you should know that the feed URL has changed. It is now http://www.art-machine.org/feed/. Normally I’d set up a redirect, but for some reason I can’t get one working this morning. … Continue reading →

When I posted my review of “Outside” I didn’t expect too much attention, but I recommended it to StumbleUpon anyway. (First rule of self-promotion: toot your own horn.) It wasn’t too long before I got back an abusive commenter who … Continue reading →