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Greg Sterling introduced Ms. Dewey to his readers today. Gavankar acts for a hokey search site that will amuse you for about three searches and according to John Battelle is part of a Microsoft project.
Tags: searchI was searching the web tonight for “Zope” (something) and I stumbled upon a site called StumbledUpon that records interesting pages that other users have stumbled upon and lets you sort the web accordingly using a browser plugin that works in IE and Firefox. It turns out that a whole lot of other people have also stumbled upon this site because a search result of pages tagged with the word ‘zope’ gave me back comments from at least 20 other “stumblers”.
Tags: firefox, zopeMy friend Chris Muldrow listens to Penn Jillette’s podcast regularly and today I stumbled across it (on the bottom right of that site) and decided if Chris thought it was worth 45 minutes of his time, I should give it a try too. I would give it a B+ as “pretty good”. Funny, but not too funny. Not too serious, but serious enough and to boot, he had a good guest and they both made a lot of sense.
Now that I’m not traveling and sitting on an airplane as much as I was this past summer, I just don’t seem to regularly have 45 minutes for a anything, much less a podcast that requires listening attention for that length of time.
On a somewhat related topic (at least my brain linked them together)…
Here is an illusion from Mark Levinson’s site that will waste a few minutes of your day.
Tags: podcastMy iTunes library has over 7000 songs. Sometimes, simply due to the quantity of music and the lack of effort I’ve put into organizing it, creating a set of music to simply enjoy is a real chore.
The other day, I found a little site called MyStrands.com that has a very neat feature if you sign in and download their application. The “Playlist Builder” takes a song suggestion from you, then it looks at the network of users who are members of their service and compares your library to each of those user’s libraries and sends back a suggested playlist. It hooks up to iTunes. If you don’t mind sharing your library with the site then you’ll love it. One day, I’ll figure out what they are trying to do with the social networking part, but for now, the play list feature is enough for me.
Tags: apple, coolapp, os xOver the years, I’ve started at least a half-dozen blogs but have let them all die the slow and painful death where after 3 weeks of not posting… You know the story. (My favorite was one called “Tactfully Sarcastic” where I seemed to always knock on stupid buzz words that the media industry seemed to be hyping at the time.)
In bursts, I seem to go and avidly post to del.icio.us and/or Flickr. But both of those sites, as great as they are at what they do, lack something. Maybe adding a blog to the mix will create a trio of sites where a bit or piece here or there will be useful to someone. So… I’m going to commit myself in this space to occasionally write about everyday things I run across during the course of a day.
I am in the online publishing business but I won’t be writing specifically about my work here. I’m sure you understand.
Here goes…
Tags: del.icio.us, firefox, flickr