Bloggers to Uganda
Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Behold, the Internet | No Comments »Compassion International is taking a bunch of bloggers to Uganda from Feb. 10-18 to experience what it is Compassion does. A couple of the bloggers are folks I read (occasionally), including Anne Jackson and Shaun Groves. Should make for some ...
MLK Day Link Round Up
Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Behold, the Internet | No Comments »A few random links I came across today thanks to Twitter: Something Smart: Seth Godin suggesting digital rentals should be dirt cheap. Something Challenging: 12 Ways to Make MLK's Dream a Reality. Something Funny: Life and Death of Design (nothing should ever be ...
Twitter: Communicate 140 Bits at a Time
Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Behold, the Internet | 1 Comment »I've been playing with Twitter a lot the past week or so. What is Twitter? I don't know--ask Wikipedia. Twitter is kind of like mini-blogging because you're limited to 140 characters, but the updates are also broadcast all over the ...
Encyclopedia of Place
Saturday, November 10th, 2007 Posted in Behold, the Internet | 2 Comments »I like information to be easy to find and freely available. I like knowing things. When I go to a park, I like to know who created the sculpture and what it's called. I like to know who the statue ...
Josh Lewis is LaserMacaroni
Monday, November 5th, 2007 Posted in Behold, the Internet, Friends | 3 Comments »This goes out to my good friend lasermacaroni--I mean Josh Lewis--who is now immortalized in a poorly drawn* web comic, Friendly Stegosaurus, and a hilarious Googlebomb. All because he's no longer the first Google result for his own name. I am ...
Is Click Here the Best Text to Make You Click Here?
Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Posted in Behold, the Internet, Writing | No Comments »You've got to be kidding me. A pro copywriter is arguing that 'click here' is the best text to use to tell someone to, well, click here. For years I've been avoiding the inane 'click here' like the plague because it's ...
Facebook is AOL 2.0
Thursday, June 28th, 2007 Posted in Behold, the Internet | 2 Comments »While talking about the redesigned Vimeo (one of the video sites where I post), Jason Kottke made an interesting remark about Facebook: "Vimeo is to YouTube as Facebook is to MySpace...not in terms of closed versus open (you do know that ...
Facebook & Flixster Wasted My Time
Monday, June 11th, 2007 Posted in Behold, the Internet | 1 Comment »So while I'm waxing eloquent about Facebook and its new applications, there's one thing I'm not so keen on. They just wasted my time. I recently launched a new book review and movie review blog and added them to my sidebar. ...
Facebook Explodes
Monday, June 11th, 2007 Posted in Behold, the Internet | 1 Comment »Brace yourself--Facebook just exploded. Facebook is the little social networking site that could. While Friendster collapsed under its own weight and MySpace got all the hype, Facebook has been steadily building something better: a useful experience. I've thought for a while ...
Drowning in E-mail
Thursday, May 31st, 2007 Posted in Behold, the Internet | 2 Comments »Ever heard of e-mail bankruptcy? It's what happens when you give up on cleaning out your inbox and just delete everything and start over. This little article talks about the peculiarity of e-mail and how it tends to pile up. ...
