Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

  • Universal Blog Carnival Submission Form

    Blog carnivals are highlight reels of the best blog posts of a certain topic – with a different hosting blog each week. Here’s a submission form for all of the carnivals out there. Fill it in, check the appropriate carnivals and submit that baby! Here’s an explanation of carnivals.

  • Browsershots.org

    Ever wonder if your blog or site looks great in every browser possible? For just a few Euros, Browsershots will deliver you a whole photo gallery of your site in multiple browsers on multiple operating systems. Here’s how my new blog template is looking. I’m still tweaking it for the Linux and Opera browsers. The […]

  • Blogger Earns $16K in August

    Problogger Darren Rowse has just announced his earnings for August from his blogs: Over 325 people from all over the world have already signed up for the free sneak preview call for our course Six Figure Blogging. The call is next Wednesday Sept 7th @ 8pm EST. Click here to register for this free call. […]

  • More on Blog Comment Lawsuit

    Wall Street Journal weighs in: In a key decision in 2003, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that the operator of a Web site can post material from others without liability for the content. “I think there’s a strong case to be made that [the Decency Act] applies to bloggers,” said […]

  • Mom Berates Son on Network Game

    World of Warcraft is one of the largest multi-player online games out there and probably a good escape for many young boys from the trials of their parents. But what if your mom showed up? if you don’t want your mother to know you were up and on the computer at 3:29 in the morning […]

  • CNN Adopts Citizen Journalist Monicker

    CNN news anchor calling for viewers to send in photos of the Katrina damage – calling them ‘citizen journalists.’ Wondering if CNN has used the term before or if this is a recent development.

  • Missed Church Last Sunday? Get It On Podcast

    (What does it say about new tech when the biggest attractors are either sex/erotica or religion?) [Kyle] Lewis, who regularly attends services of the National Community Church in Alexandria, Va., listened to the sermon while he was at the gym, through a recording he had downloaded to his iPod. Instead of listening to the rock […]

  • iTunes Podcasts Open to Taiwan

    (via Podcasting News) Taiepei Times: Apple Computer Inc yesterday introduced a broadcast feature to its red-hot iPod digital music players in Taiwan, hoping to secure a bigger market among music lovers locally.

  • Google Talk’s Openness Not as Open as Hoped

    The hype from Google Talk is quickly dissolving. Initially it was a gift from the heavens for support Jabber – an open standard for instant messaging. Open standards are important because then no single company or service can own instant messaging and networks can be opened. Sadly, though, Google has chosen not to embrace this […]

  • Amazon Shorts Limited to Existing Authors

    Well this is sucksville – I was all excited about Amazon’s new Shorts program of selling brief works for 49 cents. They’d opened the program up – but only if you are the sole author of a book already in their store. Not yet… but soon! I was hoping put some of my plays out […]