Category Archives: Links
Cloudbait Observatory - 2008 Perseids
a composite image of 232 meteors collected between sunset on August 9 through sunrise on August 12, 2008. Plus some videos of fireballs.
(tags: science photos)
How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World
Overview of business applications. One question this doesn't answer is whether individual corporate users have a right to take their own [...]
WPtouch: WordPress On iPhone » BraveNewCode
"Complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch."
(tags: design mobile usability tools wordpress iphone)
Google Gmail, Google Apps Outage in the Cloud | SuaraNews.com
Google Gmail and Google [...]
Is there a Tumblr plugin for EE? | ExpressionEngine Community Forums
One of my clients has a site built in Expression Engine — which is powerful, but more complex than necessary to make quick link-blurb style posts. This discussion thread in the EE forum indicates that it might be possible to post to an EE site [...]
Wordpress app makes mobile blogging effortless on iPhone - IPHONETOUCH.BLORGE iPhone and Touch news
A more detailed review of the wordpress iPhone app I posted about earlier today. It says you CAN handcode HTML in posts with that app. I'll go back and try that.
(tags: wordpress iphone blogging mobile tools usability)
Shifting Mind » Postalicious
Apparently, Wordpress users who want to keep using the delicious.com automated daily links post to their blogs must now install this plugin
(tags: social+media software solutions blogging wordpress)
Kaspersky Lab Press Releases
Kaspersky Lab has detected two variants of a new worm, Networm.Win32.Koobface.a. & Networm.Win32.Koobface.b, which attack MySpace and Facebook. As part of a [...]
Is it over for RSS readers? - FriendFeed
Interesting discussion of the pros/cons of reading feeds.
(tags: feeds problems solutions disagreement)
Media Conversations | O'Reilly Media Open Source Conference | Steve Yegge
Another great podcast: Google's Steve Yegge on why branding matters & how it can go wrong. Very fun & down to earth. VERY applicable to personal branding.
(tags: [...]
WNYC - Soundcheck: iPhone, iHate (July 29, 2008)
“The Apple iPhone has inspired a cultish devotion for its music applications and sleek design. But there’s a growing backlash of “haters” who argue that the hysteria is all hype. On today’s show, a no-holds-barred smackdown on the iPhone.”
(tags: iphone perceptions mobile problems audio)
A blogosphere of their own [...]
Twitter / publicdomain
This is too funny. This Twitter user is publishing Moby Dick, 140 characters at a time….
(tags: literature twitter experiments fun social+media)
Funny YouTube Irony
LOL! If you post youtube videos on your site, make sure you check first what comes up in “related videos.”
(tags: video sharing relevance prejudice fun tidbits+fodder social+media)
News you can use: New Thinking: Gerry McGovern
“Historically, press releases were never intended to be read by the public. They belong press archive, not on a homepage. Publishing a press release on a homepage says the communicator is too lazy to take the press release and turn it into a story.”
(tags: pr+marketing news overload research [...]
A quote for the curmudgeons | Howard Owens
“Here’s a quote for any online manager dealing with a newsroom of curmudgeons. It’s from Theodore Roosevelt. Blow it up big and post it for all to see.”
(tags: history perspective curmudgeons journalism innovation tidbits+fodder)
PressThink: A Most Useful Definition of Citizen Journalism
Jay Rosen’s definition, which has caused a stir [...]
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