FebruaryFeb 3 Tuesday 09
[FEED ONLY] Shawnblanc.net RSS Feed
With their acquisition of Feedburner last summer, Google has begun slowly migrating all Feedburner feeds over to new servers and new systems. The migration should result in more reliable feed delivery for you and more accurate subscriber …
Monday By Noon Joins Fusion Ads
Monday By Noon Joins Fusion Ads -
Linking to Jonathan's site over a year ago, I said:
Monday By Noon is a great idea. I always thought posting once a week on Mondays would be a runaway concept.
Jonathan writes on web design once a week and publishes his article every …
The Case Against Everything Buckets
The Case Against Everything Buckets -
Alex Payne's argument for why the catch-all, information organizing apps such as Yojimbo and Evernote are not worth their trouble — let alone their cost for a license.
A timely article. I have been storing and organizing my files …
JanuaryJan 30 Friday 09
Permalinks for Gmail Messages Can be Linked as Web Clips in Things
Permalinks for Gmail Messages Can be Linked as Web Clips in Things -
The number one feedback I received from readers after yesterday's review of Things was that they did not know they could drag web or email clippings (or any other links to files) into the "Notes" pane …
Twitter Plugins for Wordpress
For the two years that I have been on Twitter, I having been using Dave Kellam's TwitterRSS plugin for WordPress to display my current Twitter status in the sidebar. Unfortunately it stopped working after my upgrade to version 2.7 a few days ago and was only displaying …
JanuaryJan 29 Thursday 09
A Review of Two Things: One For the Mac and One For iPhone
How many task-management apps have you used in the past 6 months?
Finding that single piece of software which does exactly what we need when we ourselves don't actually know what it is we need can be a pain. It's a Tinkerfest.
Task-management apps are multiplying …
JanuaryJan 28 Wednesday 09
'Management is a total career restart'
'Management is a Total Career Restart' -
Michael Lopp:
This sensation will appear at the end of the day when you ask, "What did I build today?" The answer will be a troubling, "Nothing". The days of fixing ten bugs before noon are gone. You're no longer going to spend …
"Toward Patterns for Creativity"
"Toward Patterns for Creativity" -
The YouTube video of Merlin Mann's 27-minute talk at Macworld.
There is a quote from Robert Louis Stevenson that I think is very apt on this issue. He says, "Perpetcual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be …
JanuaryJan 25 Sunday 09
Slight Updates
I recently made two minor, yet highly significant (to me) changes on this site.
The first is that I reversed the layout of the default title tag. For the past year and a half, the title shown in the browser bar has been the WordPress default. It is incredibly ugly and …
JanuaryJan 23 Friday 09
Update to Flickr Desktop Uploadr
I am upgrading from the 2.x version so this is a huge update for me. But if you've already been on the 3.x version you'll be happy to know that Flickr's OS X desktop software for managing and uploading your flickr photos is now "more …
JanuaryJan 21 Wednesday 09
The $300 Million Button
What the web team assumes is helpful for the user is not always what is actually helpful for the user.
Inaugural Preparation Images on The Big Picture
Inaugural Preparation Images on The Big Picture -
Love the Legos.
UPDATE: Don't miss the new photos from the inauguration day itself.
JanuaryJan 20 Tuesday 09
SuggestRSS
Get RSS Suggestions Based on Similarity to Your Current Subscriptions -
New 'big-time beta' website from Jonathan Christopher which analyzes your OPML file and suggests new feeds for you.
The more OPML files that are uploaded the better the RSS suggestions you'll …
Wilard Wigan's Sculptures
Wilard Wigan's Micro Sculptures -
The tail is a dust fiber, plucked from the air.
Unbelievable.
MSNBC Video Archive of Obama's Inaugural Address
MSNBC's Video Archive of President Obama's Inaugural Address -
An historic day. God bless President Barack Obama.
JanuaryJan 19 Monday 09
A Feed-Only Test Post
I've always done site design updates live, and now that I'm tinkering with the shawnblanc.net RSS feed, it might as well be a live tinker as well.
If you're curious, I am using query_posts function in WordPress to exclude a category from the homepage yet keep it in the …
JanuaryJan 15 Thursday 09
How To Develop Your Own Film
How To Develop Your Own Film -
Justin Ouellette:
Besides offering you a more intimate role in the process, doing your own processing can possibly save you money and definitely save you time. It's not difficult to do, and I guarantee that even a mediocre job will be …
It's No Totebag
Thanks to all of you who participated in the RSS Feed Subscription Drive yesterday and sent in a favorite feed of your own. In return, here is a list with a few of the sites which stood out to me as worth checking out.