CNet tries to map out the early days of blogging in an article today.
Was the first blogger the irascible Dave Winer? The iconoclastic Jorn Barger? Or was the first blogger really Justin Hall, a Web diarist and online gaming expert whom The New York Times Magazine once called the “founding father of personal blogging”?
They […]
I really like those Rough Guide books — the travel books, the ones about musical genres, and I also enjoyed the Rough Guide to the Internet. They have recently published the Rough Guide to Blogging by Jonathan Yang. Positive customer reviews at Amazon.
The Rough Guide site has more info on the book, which costs US$12.99.
Jon […]
I have been using MarsEdit with my other weblog - http://weblogs.education.ucr.edu/breilly — and it has worked fine for short entries. The writing features are a little primitive, but good enough most of the time. I’m trying out Ecto here because I couldn’t get MarsEdit to set up properly with Word Press. So far, Ecto looks […]
Just type your stuff in and click Publish and it’s done. Faster and it has a nicer interface than the web-based Word Press screen.
Tired of waiting for red traffic lights to turn green? One of the longest traffic lights is in New Jersey, and it takes about 3 minutes to turn green. This gadget may be illegal, but it sure is useful. It has the ability to turn traffic lights from red to green.
For instructions on how to […]
Steve Friess in Wired writes about podcasters going from just a few listeners to a few too many very quickly with the introduction of podcast support and listings in iTunes 4.9. Since there is no money involved for most podcasters (so far), $300 per month bandwidth charges just to keep up with all the […]
I noticed that the postings I created in ecto yesterday had a date setting of “tomorrow” but just figured it was a clock error. When some of the posts started showing up twice, I realized something might be wrong.
I removed a couple of duplicates and figured out how to change the time setting for a […]
A few days ago it was over 100 degrees and there was a very brief power glitch which caused 3 computers here to shut off. The two Macs restarted with no problem, but the Dell has been shutting off as it starts up over the past couple of days. It worked fine for about 5 […]
A few days ago I bought a Rio MP3 Player from Overstock.com. I was great for only $35. I holds up to 2 hours of music, has a stopwatch and some radio stations. The radio reception was poor.I could only hear two stations, but I didn’t buy the MP3 player to listen to the radio. […]
I remember Cliff Stoll when he was just the hyper guy at BMUG meetings in Berkeley. Since he became an authority on the proper role of technology in schools, I’ve found his commentaries to be a little repetitive. In yesterday’s LA Times, his op-ed piece — “Computers in class are lousy teachers” — some good […]
Memory maps on Flickr are an interesting use of the comment feature paired with satellite images (most seem to come from Google Maps). A nice way to memorialize a trip or someplace you’ve lived. It also seems like a great opportunity to connect geotags with the maps to make them even more interactive. Instead of […]
Yes, you read the title correctly. The Intel surfboard has a touch sreen e-mail, internet accsess, can record video footage of you surfing and a solar charger. Future boards like this one may have ability to host live webcams of the surfing footage. This surfboard as you can see has some very usefull […]
