Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Marc deconstrcuts the privacy concerns underlying Yahoo! 360

Pew Internet & American Life Project reports: 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29% of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing.

Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Where the Readers/Viewers Will Take Us

Bluffton Today, a citizen’s media site launches, turning the newspaper model upside down – a open-virtual community center for Bluffton, South Carolina: Everyone gets a blog. Not just staffers, but everyone in the community. LeMonde (France) and the Mail and Guardian (South Africa) are doing this, too. I don’t know of others but would appreciate […]

Darren chimes in with several reasons why he’s not buying the podcasting hype: Audio doesn’t compress. You can’t skim a podcast. This is a problem inherent in the format of audio. The more podcasts I listen to the more I just want to say get on with it! Content, dammit! A blog’s strength is brevity […]

The prizes have been awarded for the latest WordPress themes contest. I’m a mere tinkerer, these folks are pixel-perfect CSS jockeys. Note that you can click on a winning theme’s name to see the blog displayed in that style… The Winners

I need to start making the assumption that anybody that’s cool probably has a blog. I’d posted the Eyetools findings a few days ago and didn’t even think that they might have a blog. They do (Darren pointed me to it) and they’re looking for bloggers interested in dialog around eyetracking with blogs. I was […]

The Eyetrack III study has found some cool findings: Smaller type encourages focused viewing behavior (that is, reading the words), while larger type promotes lighter scanning. Visual breaks – like a line or rule – discouraged people from looking at items beyond the break, like a blurb. When people look at blurbs under headlines on […]

For all my love of writing, I sure make a ton of misspellings in my blog posts and comments. Sure, the instancy of blogs gives you a little latitude, but you can still come off looking pretty dumb. Like the year that went by before someone pointed out that I misspelled entrepreneur without that second […]

This sort of pisses me off. Waxy has found that the homepage for WordPress includes hidden HTML code that links to a host of 168,000 articles intended to boost the site’s Google PageRank. Consider for a moment that, by default, WordPress installs templates that link back to the WordPress.org site. They already have thousands of […]