Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Master those keyboard shortcuts: Mouse-less Firefox

Just like ‘blog’ was word of the year for 2005, ‘podcast’ is now the word of the year for 2005. What will 2006 be? OPML? Ajax? Wiki?

David from Solution Box is giving away 108 web templates – THANKS! Grab the free templates right now.

AskMeFi has a great thread on reading old MBOX format email files. I someday dream of having every piece of data in my life on one massive hard drive for my complete edification and searching. My biographer is going to have such a grand time.

Summary from MarketingSherpa’s Average Email Marketing List Size Growing by 40% Per Year: 4 Steps to Optimize Response: New subscribers (90 days good, 30 days better) are the most responsive to offers. Survey readers to find how they want the info: digest, full article, weekly, monthly, etc. Use site search logs to find fresh and […]

Lifehacker: SEO Made Easy

Anyone who has saved Word documents as web pages and then tried to edit them know one thing: Word adds a huge set of proprietary tags to the HTML. Here’s some tools to strip the code down to pristine, compliant HTML. (via AskMeFi) HTML Tidy is the classic tool that cleans up errant tags and […]

One of the pioneers of podcasting, Adam Curry, was found to be revising the history of the format on Wikipedia. Or at least a user from an IP address he owns was found to be revising the history of podcasting. Rogers has the lowdown: These edits were spotted by Marks and Wikipedia editor Jeremy Hunsinger, […]

Teen Posts Suicide Note on MySpace: "do me a favore [sic] …. call the police. Address … Abadejo, Mission Viejo, CA 92692. tell them to go down the hall to the bathrooom. im soo sorry<3"

No – it’s not about my book. But still useful. One unique aspect of blogs is the way in which their creators and consumers are always switching places. Most blogs, including most design blogs, are solo operations administered by an amateur blogger who adds new posts whenever he or she can find the time. Larger […]