Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

The wizards at Six Apart – I can see them from down the hall actually – have done it again. BlogIt allows you to post from Facebook to Twitter, TypePad, Vox, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, WordPress.com, self-hosted WordPress, Pownce, Tumblr and more services on the way. It doesn’t matter where you blog and what platform […]

Symbols, icons and movements of love and hate are all cohesive when we see them in the media or magazines – but who does the leg work? The costuming? The white robes and pointy hats are unmistakable. But who makes them? Mother Jones has an article and photo essay, Aryan Outfitters: Ms. Ruth is a […]

Each morning on my walk to Six Apart down Folsom to 4th I pass the Mexican consulate with usually about 3 dozen men, women and children waiting in line for the offices to open at 9. Just as you pass the building you see a sign on the sidewalk that says ‘Pasaportes Fotografias’ (might be […]

Please stay in view: Targeted ads might be a brass ring for the online marketers, but consumers just aren’t buying it. According to a recent Harris Interactive survey, 59 percent of Americans take exception to Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo tracking their online activities for marketing purposes. Yes trust Google and Yahoo – they certainly have […]

From the Oregon Center for Public Policy: This tax season, a minimum wage worker who was employed full-time last year and raising one child will pay about $321 in state income taxes. That’s equivalent to the cost of about a month’s worth of food based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data. For a single parent […]

I’ve been talking about RSS for like 5 years now and it seems like the adoption rate is still painfully slow. Brian writes: When I first started Copyblogger, I was a huge RSS evangelist. Over two years later, email is still very much alive. That fact is most evident with my other projects, but even […]

So much for that boom: The bigger problem is that the now-finished boom was, for most Americans, nothing of the sort. In 2000, at the end of the previous economic expansion, the median American family made about $61,000, according to the Census Bureau’s inflation-adjusted numbers. In 2007, in what looks to have been the final […]

(found via reddit) Google’s AppEngine is being compared to Amazon’s EC2/S3. … But rather than thinking of AppEngine as a step above EC2, instead I think of it somewhere around Myspace. … The thing about Hypercard was that it wasn’t just static text and images like base html. It had a scripting language, a database, […]

Sharon puts together tips on how web-workers can recreate their daily schedule to make every day seem like a vacation day: Being healthy is something we are all challenged with, no matter what our jobs are, but we web workers are strategically positioned to create lifestyles that promote an extremely high quality of life. We […]

Leesa pointed me to Jason’s post about Michael’s post, Podcasting – It’s a Community Not an Industry: Here we are almost 4 years after the birth of podcasting, 3 years after most of the advertising placement companies first launched, and many popular (people we have all heard of) podcasters are still struggling to figure out […]