Monthly Archives: February 2005

One of the things that made me want to start this blog was the experience I recently had writing a guest post on Rory’s blog. I got great feedback from a number of smart and interesting people and I can’t … Continue reading →

First, a term: def. The Long Tail. n. The great mass of products in any market which, though selling few units individually, as a whole make up the majority of activity in that market. The extent to which each product … Continue reading →

I just finished the process of transfering over from Blogger. I’m digging this whole Blosxom thing. No PHP. No SQL. Nothing fancy. Just a CGI and three style-able .html files. That suits me. Also, I registered my own URL, all … Continue reading →

Looks like del.icio.us has started to get hit with spam. Will be interesting to see how they respond. I have a sense that much rides on their response for the future of tagsonomies/folksonomies/theNewWhatever.

Many freshman congressmen, along with Katherine Harris, and a visiting Iraqi woman showed their purple fingers as marks of pride at tonight’s State of the Union. (NYT)

As markers of resistance to tyranny(David Brooks in NYT) national pride(St. Petersburg Times) Israeli interference(alJazeera)

My frst post on Neopoleon.com. I’ll be writing over there on various IDEAS for the web.

Last night I heard this story on the bbc about “video” games for the blind. Apparently they involve having to locate enemies in the stereo spectrum and attack them in the proper direction using the arrow keys (for example). I … Continue reading →

A podcast that, like Metafilter, consists entirely of links to other podcasts and other audio content. Since “links” obviously won’t work directly (you can’t click through on your iPod to a referenced media file — not yet anyway), instead, the … Continue reading →