“Summer Reading” is usually more of a wish than an accomplishment. But I managed a lot this summer; indeed my June Amazon shipment is wholly depleted. I like to read two or three related books in tandem, for the joy…
Gadgets & Toys
Within minutes of one another, Robert French and Jeremy Pepper kindly sent me invites to Google Talk. Google Talk is Google’s new IM and voice-chat client. I’ve signed up — it’s free and easy to install — to try it…
Been stranded on a desert island for a few days? To get a fast read on what’s happened and what hoi polloi thinks important, you could turn to BlogPulse’s Key People analysis. Looking at yesterday’s analysis, you’d quickly realize a)…
A couple of weeks ago, I noted that PubSub’s LinkRank (now called LinkCounts, apparently) feature was back up but buggy. Almost immediately, PubSub’s Mark Wagner and Bob Wyman were Johnny-on-the-Spot with news of fixes and requests for feedback. Today, Mark…
Update: Even before I managed to send a copy of this post to the PubSub people, Pubsub’s Bob Wyman and Mark Wagner had both posted comments explaining why I got odd results. That sort of fast, useful feedback is a…
New Update from Greg the Cartographer: “Allan, Thanks for the kind words. I have brought back the site with traffic data coming from Traffic.com instead of Yahoo… http://supergreg.hopto.org/google-traffic.com/ Cheers Greg” Update: Major bummer…. the site has been killed because Yahoo…
I’ve been grumbling to myself about Google’s gmail lately, because it seemed the spam filter was starting to glitch. Every day or so, sometimes 2-3 times in a day, a press release would creep through from someone I don’t know….
Seeing beauty in something (and ugliness; it’s the same coin) requires honed senses and the literacy to understand what your senses are telling you. As I’ve grown older, I’ve resigned myself to never fully appreciating high-tech. Neither will I appreciate…
Via Smart Mobs comes news of Earthcomber, a mapping application for PDAs. One neat part of the application is that it lets members of public or private communities enter locations and comments on a map overlay. So a group of…
I’ve decided blog chicklets — those ubiquitous little rectangular buttons found on most blogs, including this one — are going to be to the ’00s what “modem handshake whine” was to the 90′s. I’ve seen them in ads; and I’m…
