Links to interviews with Rich Siegel and John Calhoun, BBEdit 7.1.4
release notes, and an excellent story from Andy Hertzfeld on the
development of Switcher.
Just a Bunch of Links, but They’re Good Links, I Swear
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TROELS BOOKMARKLETS (free): Another great stash of bookmarklets, including some to help manage links, web page layout, web navigation, site development, search-translate, and a bunch of experimental bookmarklets to try out
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Here's the sign of a true geek: even neck surgery didn't prevent me
from keeping up with my favorite blogs (via FeedDemon, of course).
Here are a few nice CSS articles that were posted during my "down
time":
More UI links06/05/2005 11:38 PM I’m not writing about Apple’s user interface anymore (at
least not for a while)—but I do keep seeing interesting posts by
other folks.
Helliferocious writes about an interesting new button/menu thing in the print
dialog: “A buttnu?”
Quentin at Rogue Amoeba writes,
“Apple’s real usability expertise comes in designing
end-to-end solutions like iTunes/iPod integration, or technology like
Bonjour.”
The thing I love about RSS, and by extension web services, is that
they allow people to take publically available data and combine it in
ways never thought of by the originator of the feed. The internet is
awash with examples of this, from useful services such as Feedster to useless amusements
like I despise you and
your so-called taste, the most insulting extension of the Amazon
API I've
seen to date.
Hot Links is the
neatest new serice of this kind I've seen in quite a while, spotted a
few weeks ago thanks to a vanity PubSub subscription. Hot Links
subscribes to a bunch of RSS feeds for link logs (or blogmarks or
whatever you want to call them) and watches them for newly linked
sites. When it spots one, it grabs a thumbnail sized screenshot using
khtml2png and
posts it along with the description cribbed from the link log. Sites
linked to from more than one link roll are promoted, allowing Hot
Links visitors to restrict their "level" and view only sites with a
certain minimum number of citations.
Syndicating link logs like this is a smart idea, and the people
behind Hot Links have pulled it off in a stylish manner with great
attention to detail. I particularly like the ability to view links from just my
blogmarks as it provides a neat visual reminder of the sites I've
recently recorded.
Flu Links12/10/2003 07:48 PM It's barely December and already the flu in the United States has
reached unhappy proportions. If you haven't gotten your flu shot
already, you may have some trouble finding any place that has the
vaccine. Here are a few resources...
Links with Value03/14/2003 01:08 PM Kevin Marks proposed to the emergent democracy list yesterday a way to
flag that just because we're linking to something doesn't mean we
agree with it. Among the benefits, this would give Google and other
apps that count links a way to judge whether the link should count as
a recommendation. After we kicked it around for a while —
wondering, for example, whether it should take a binary value or a
range and whether we should call it "whuffie" — Kevin formulated
the proposal. We're calling it "vote links" (not my favorite since
voting is just one application) and...
One of your links...01/04/2004 02:42 AM I was showing a co-worker the war chalking symbols and tried to access
one of the pictures, the jpg one, and it took me to this site:
http://main.netster.com/Index.asp?Site=c2NyZWFtY2QuY29t NOT the one
that is referenced. Also, upon closing that browser, I was prompted
for two things, one "Do you want to make nester.com your homepage?"
The other, do I want to install and run (some) program? Spyware, I'm
sure.) To which I couldn't respond NO fast enough. I just thought
you'd like to know that your links might be more than people are
bargaining for. Don't know what your thoughts are on it, but I
wouldn't want to subject my vistors to those things, no matter the
cost. Thanks for listening.
I'm Orlando II, by the way. You may
have noticed I'm not positng that much at the moment. I've just lost
two evenings to 50 games against American teenagers who call people
"Faggot" a lot... Wankers. Good game though...
Only six programmes in 2004 attract
an audience in excess of 15 million viewers. In 2003, 50 programmes
got between 17 and 20 million viewers. In 1999, 177 programmes had
more than 15 million viewers.
"Television viewing has proved
remarkably resilient to increased demands on consumers ... and in fact
has increased slightly over the last decade (from 25.6 hours per
household per week in 1993 to 26.1 hours in 2003)"
Tara has an enormous list of
links to folks who wrote about one or more of the BloggerCon sessions.
One way she got it was using Feedster, an RSS search
engine that I find quite useful.
A new comics-related weblog by the
gorgeous and charming Sparky of Ultrasparky.org - replete with
nostalgia, full of cool old ads from comic books and dosed up on homo
juice. Awesome...
So the department in which I work
have relaunched the website for 6music and - along with the Radio 3
site that I helped out on - it's one of the most true-to-the-medium
sites that the BBC's done to date. Very nice.
"The new home secretary, Charles
Clarke, today rejected calls to reconsider plans for ID cards after
Labour backbenchers suggested the departure of David Blunkett
yesterday should prompt a rethink."
"It's about capturing moments -
things your eyes have got caught on - and doing what you'd do to a
friend if they happened to be on the street with you, saying 'check
that out, isn't that awesome'.."
"Then me and Craig were like
boyfriends for a whole week, but then I got bored of him and dumped
him because he was too clingy and I needed like SPACE and FREEDOM to
BE MYSELF."
"The BBC has announced more job
losses in its programme-making divisions, bringing the total to 2,050
over three years, as it seeks to save £355m a year to reinvest in
programmes."
Every two months or so I lose the
URL for this and want to find it again. Two players who have never met
try to guess words to describe a picture. If they match they get
points, and the image gains useful metadata... Awesome stuff...
After working on a project around
programme information for most of the last year, I've started to get
really interested in standard identifiers and metadata for all kinds
of things. A universal CRID for songs is - I think - just a question
of time...
Accessible Pop-up Links04/09/2004 04:04 PM Sometimes we have to use pop-ups -- so we might as well do them right.
This article will show you how to make them more accessible and
reliable while simplifying their implementation.
Concept in a nutshell: buy drinks
with hats, give money to charity, wear tiny hat, get someone to take a
photo, look dumb, get dumped by your partner, embrace the fundamental
pain of existence. You know, for kids!
"Discrimination is being blamed for
high rates of mental health problems amongst gay men and lesbians, a
study suggests. A survey of 1,285 homosexual and bisexual men and
women found just under a third had attempted suicide."
Not terribly thrilling this one, but
always useful for quick reference when you need to protect some admin
interface or back-end that's lying around the place.
"Blog noun [short for Weblog] (1999)
: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with
reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the
writer"
"Sissy is a pejorative term for boys
who appear effeminate - typical for a society that considers the
separation of male and female identified characteristics more
important than the separation of church and state..."
Links from Day 3 of ETech03/19/2005 02:33 AM This is a dump of lnks of interest to me that come up during talks
during the third day at Etech. Newest at top.
An Intimate History of Humanity by Theodore Zeldin
Matt Webb says this is one of his favorite books from 2004.
"POSM (The Project for Open Source
Media) is an independent research and development entity for the
development and deployment of a standardized Open Media
Platform."
And I have to confess - I'm pretty
bloody impressed. One of the easiest installations I've ever done for
a wiki and very powerful and flexible. This might be the core of a
future project
"The line up for 2005's Etech has
been posted, and so far it seems like the same people talking about
the same pet subjects. Not many 'genuine outbreaks of the future' so
far." Plus, I'm a Beatle. Which is nice.
" As we speak, lots of nice grannies
at Extra Care and Age Concern centres around the UK are knitting us
mini bobble hats for our smoothies. For each bottle sold in EAT
outlets across the UK, innocent and EAT will donate 50p to Age
Concern"
Not only beautiful,
well-constructed, web native and elegant - but also bloody
interesting. It's probably cos I'm a poof, but I find this way more
interesting than Belle de Jour...
Like much of what's been happening
online, I've completely missed the '2004 weblog awards' (no relation
to the Bloggies). I think this one emerged from the mostly right-wing
ex-warblogger politico community/ecosystem...
The idea - that you can make a list
of songs and post them up on your site - isn't particularly
revolutionary, but it's not that far off integrating with your music
app (Windows Media Player) and becoming a nicely distributed
audioscrobbler...
"And none of this has anything to do
with bricks, mortar and the ability to chart a course. None of it
helps an institution we could easily help by guaranteed licence fee
and lengthened charter if we wanted to, for barely the price of a new
ID card."
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