I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
GameTonight now creates a module for Panic’s excellent Status Board iPad app. The URL is simple, add ‘/statusboard’ to any metro…
I’ve just released an initial beta of Threads, a WordPress plugin I’ve been working on for about a year. The idea is simple: show posts…
One of my favorite SxSWi events so far was the Ze Frank’s conversation. As alluded to on Twitter, I’m a Ze Frank fanboy, having 2-3 minutes of my life enhanced every day by The Show as it happened back in 2006-2007. The conversation was a somewhat surreal experience. A room chock full of people that…
Social networking at conferences is very different than normal social networking. It simultaneously drives non-conference attendees nuts, while is an essential part of the experience for the conference attendees. I know both sides firsthand. I was ready to unfollow half of my Twitter stream during SxSW a couple years ago, and saw the benefits of…
This is really frustrating… Dear Colorado-based Amazon Associate: We are writing from the Amazon Associates Program to inform you that the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers. The regulations are burdensome and no other state has similar rules. The new regulations do not require online retailers to…
I’m a bit baffled by all of the late night TV shuffling, arguing, debating, etc. Are there still people that watch TV (besides sporting events) at their broadcast time? I’ve had a DVR since 2002 – I can hardly fathom watching TV another way.
Yesterday I got a $10 charge from PayPal when someone who had donated $1 to me ($.67 after PayPal fees) disputed the payment. Besides being obviously frustrating, this is also quite interesting. The e-mail I received from PayPal stated: After careful consideration of the evidence provided by you and the buyer in the case referenced…
Twitter-SPAM is on the rise, and I include RTs (re-tweets) in the SPAM bucket. I made a snarky remark about this a couple days back – and sure enough, it got re-tweeted. To mix my metaphors, RTs increase the noise part of the signal to noise ratio in what can already be a rather noisy…
For the last couple of months I’ve had an Obama badge in my sidebar to show my support for his candidacy for president. The time for campaigning is done – it’s now time to focus on working together as a country. I’m now replacing my Obama badge with this: perhaps you’d like to do the…
This is great (thanks Joe). I see people complaining and whining about Twitter’s downtime and issues1 all the time. I understand where they are coming from, but believe it or not I actually like the fact that Twitter isn’t a 100% reliable service. I don’t want Twitter to become a responsibility; I like having a…
Update: NBC has now made this song available for download. Here is a direct link. The jazz version of O Holy Night at the end of tonight’s episode of Studio 60 knocked my socks off. When the voiceover said to go to nbc.com for more on tonight’s music, I was very hopeful. I thought, “perhaps…
I mentioned a few days ago that I was interested in getting a new keyboard and mouse. Through my own research and the comments on that post, the Logitech S 530 seems like the best fit for me. Normally, I just buy tech stuff online (from Amazon when I can), but a keyboard and mouse…
When did it become the in thing to sign off your e-mails with just your initials (or even just one initial)? I’m getting more and more e-mails that end with something like (using John Doe as the name in the example): … Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Regards, j. or even a plain: … Lorem…
I generally don’t watch commercials (thanks TiVo), but occasionally one starts before I hit the skip button. This weekend I saw that Chase is using “All You Need is Love” by the Beatles as the background music for their current credit card commercial. That’s right, a song against commercialism being used to pimp a card…
Sometimes it’s really hard to not tell your side of the story. The recent drama around Rocketboom being played out in public is hurting the reputation of both Amanda Cogdon and Andrew Baron – whatever the real story is. The same thing happened last month with PubSub, when information was broadcast that really should have…
There is an IBM commercial on TV right now that shows a series of people all singing along to: I’m not like everybody else…1 But… they’re all singing the same thing together – each one, like everybody else. Is the irony here intentional and I’m missing a larger joke? by the Kinks, I believe. [back]
I’m not entirely sure how or when it happened, but in the past year I’ve weeded almost all primary sources from my personal news intake. Pretty much everything I care about will get picked up or commented on by one of my secondary sources. I never gave much credence to the folks who talked about…