Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

In tandem with their TV show Best Week Ever – their week-in-review snarkfest – they launched a companion blog which amazingly, has comments! Score!

Yay! I (and a bunch of other bloggers) have garnered entrance to the Media Bloggers Association: Media Bloggers Association (MBA) is a non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting MBA members and their blogs, educating bloggers, and promoting the explosion of citizen’s media. Yippee! I feel like I’m on The Swan when they open the curtain and […]

Good God, the hand-wringing is just endless. There is nothing less dynamic than seeing 2 talking heads reading blogs on television. They are wondering by Michael Jackson isn’t oft-discussed in the political blogosphere. Duh. It’s not a political story. Everyone kvetches about Judith Miller’s shilling for Chalabi and basically being a war-mongering, sabre-rattling fluffergirl but […]

I’m attending the 2005 Social Networks conference… the keynote is availabe on audio and features a great summation of the past 20 years of social networks/forums/etc. The biggest question: The technologies for online collaboration have developed enourmously – but has the conversation developed? OSN 2005 Keynote

One of the most exciting things about podcasting is its ability to turn anyone into a broadcaster at minimal cost. Podcasting is to traditional broadcasting as blogging is to mainstream news media; both put powerful publishing tools into the hands of anyone with a computer. Full article: Applications for ‘Podcasting’

What are the coolest uses for RSS feeds out there? I’m looking for information that isn’t just “newest posts” on a blog, or NYT headlines, but something more along the lines of rssweather.com or Netflix’s RSS feeds. What are the most outside-the-box uses of syndication?

Tomorrow is the big day! Everybody’s favorite open-source blog tool turns to version 1.5. I’ve been tinkering with 1.5 on my fitness blog and it’s pretty derned slick. I can’t wait to install it on my other blogs.

Orbitz travel company doesn’t want you deep-linking: linking into the site without going through the front page. Memo: it’s called mod_rewrite. Ask your network engineers about it. They probably mentioned it but Legal or Marketing was too busy making a case for crisis to justify their budgets.

New Scientist on the Big Hype: A new piece of software solves both these problems because it automatically sends newly posted audio files to an MP3 player’s music management software as soon as they arrive online. It differs from internet radio because you do not have to tune in at specific times.

Buzz buzz buzz. What is Beercasting? Let’s face it, we’re all social people and nothing gets us chattering quicker than a few drinks and some good friends, both new and old. These days, the Internet is growing and growing and more and more of us are turning to it as a way to get a […]