lies, damned lies, and blog statistics we carefully surveyed hosted services full of teenagers and found that they were full of teenagers. no word on the makeup of the sites they didn't survey.
grant's terrifying karaoke testimonial few in the world share his talen for writing about a personal perversion and making it seem universal and acceptable
Barcelona Virtual can you tell i'm pretty excited about my first trip to spain?
"mauled roy communicating" sure, three decades as vegas' most popular act, and now the poor guy's stuck with a name that sounds like a Garbage Pail Kid
email this to your friends you know, if each of us emailed this to one person, we should be able to get to the top of yahoo finance's most emailed in about an hour
upcoming achieves its goal arranging a ride to a shonen knife show. it's the promise of the app, and congrats to Andy for giving people a place to do it.
bees! bees in jason's hair! jason's mad about google's adsense terms, but since he hobnobs with google execs, he can hold them personally accountable
nice list of auxiliary blog apps a lot of these ideas seem like features that should be more tightly integrated into blogging apps, but it's great to see this kind of creativity
intimi-gate.com a non-partisan clearinghouse of news and information relating to the White House leak of a CIA Agents name
another brilliantly wrong-headed gruber rant "Any competing player that doesn’t establish an iPod-caliber brand isn’t even competing at all." But John, some people would rather make a ton of money than be famous.
how Time Warner's DVRs trump AOL i've been using the Explorer 8000 for a few weeks now, and it definitely seems like the kind of smart innovation AOL could never pull off
nice profile on the olsens as anti-hiltons the current tally, for those of you who keep forgetting, is over a billion dollars a year and second only to disney in reach with tweens and teens
September 30, 2003
sued by the RIAA help lorraine raise the $2500 the record industry is extorting from her
how jakob fixed the web the impressive thing is not that nielsen takaes credit for so much, but that he's done enough that it's even worth debating
NYC VC blog interesting to see someone from Flatiron Partners start up on TypePad
USA Today (!) on web services getting real amazon, google and macromedia are at the forefront of exposing services, but the challenge now is making them usable by regular people
this is news.com page number 1 cnet's generated this nice demo page with their publishing system to show the rest of us what heds, deks, and ledes are
making sense of adsense i wrote a post on google's adsense last week, in case you missed it. some nice feedback about the arbitrary nature of some parts of the system.
The Image of Librarians in Pornography the linked page is work safe. the cliched images of glasses being removed and ponytails being undone are probably less work safe.
outkast reinvents the wheel great review of the double album, especially for a college writer. of course, i'm just glad to hear someone concede that "Andre wants to be Prince"
weblogs, inc "launches" "Talent wants to be free"? Yeah, 'cause writers are just plain overpaid right now.
andrea and jonah meet dean some days i feel like all the cool kids get to hang out with the President of the Internet and i'm stuck at home with a cold
khtml2png pursuing the holy grail of a useful website thumbnail generator. most tools so far require too much hardware, obscure libraries, or windows servers.
starting with a blank slate the consensus for web apps that are just starting is that they have instructional text. too often, though, that stuff just reads like advertising
boingo's sky says wi-fi is trending up i'm still not completely against the idea of paying for access to wifi networks, though most places i go have it for free
we're thinking of you, lisa amazingly, lisa stopped to phone on saturday, after this accident, to apologize for not meeting us. somehow we'll forgive her.
archive of NY Times dining tours these are fantastic videos of behind-the-scenes action at some of the best kitchens in the world
dean, flashmob, doonesbury, blogging, egads blog entry with a film linked to by the site of the campaign of the candidate mentioned in the comic strip about the flashmob. surreal.
CNET redesigns with CSS and adds blogs they're still using their custom CMS, so the blogs are a litlte wonky, but it's a great way to mark their 7th anniversary
nick neatly negates calacanis' bubbleism most businesses that use blogs will use it the way they use email. how many businesses look at their email system as a revenue stream?
September 13, 2003
NYC Notebook a great city resource that's a sister site to NYC Eats
PressThink this is a great MT blog by NYU j-school's chair
mama smartypants i always love when people reveal themselves to be so much more than the persona on their website
beto's pyra videos rediscovered i was so heartbroken to think these clips were lost, and i'm glad this part of our industry's history is preserved
Darl McBride is a condescending prick it's astonishing to me that SCO's CEO might have a legitimate legal point, but can't resist antagonizing people while stating it
lileks accepts nuclear destruction if i were as hopeless as him, so defeated as to offer "In their hearts, they hate humanity.", then I could understand where his bile comes from, and how he gives himself permission to hide behind his own daughter while vilifying good people with decent intentions. he only has his anger, and i have hope.
adam ant sings "save the gorilla" sure, take of your pants and brandish a pistol in a pub. but remaking "stand and deliver"? That's *really* crazy!
new york's always been tough in terms of buildings destroyed and economic impact, the great fire of 1835 was far more destructive than the 9/11 attacks, though far fewer lives were lost
pixies to reunite i don't really care, but i figured i'd spread the word for my friends who do
open house new york i'm bummed that i'll be out of town while some of new york's finest buildings are opened to the public
hop on the high line now that i've progressed to giving directions to others, i should probably get up there myself
making wikis unsuck matt's beautifully outlined a product with fantastic potential. make it compatible with MT's plugins and author permissions, and I think you'd have a killer product
fantastic lawsuit judo against spammers they sued blacklists, then tried to withdraw the suit, but the defendants are trying to let the case go forward so they can out the spammers during discovery
scrabblog this TypePad site is one of those rare fun and engaging weblogs that actually does something new with the format
ungossip though i'm glad liz is successful, i wouldn't want to have to explain what i'm working on to nosy strangers
metagossip never forget, kids, there's nothing the media likes better than talking about itself
an oral history of first avenue the stories that make this the twin cities' most storied venue. be sure to check out the ?uestlove and jimmy jam interviews in the story package.
strong matt welch overview on blogging i know better than anybody that the jabs against alt-weeklies are deserved, but I could still point out a string of errors and biases in this piece, too
Macromedia Into looks like they've done a great job of making user profiles into something real. bonus points for the amusing tim o'reilly video.
September 3, 2003
WaMu ditches ATM fees just another opportunity that they've created for themselves by having a superior tech platform
some white men resenting minority identity the only thing that minorities in this country have never been asked to forfeit is their unique identity, and now they want that, too
terrifying AOL CD collection it would take 700 free hours just to collect all of these. scary how many of these i've gotten.
dean campaign turns away privacy fans the lesson here is the same one stores need to heed: if you're trying to be inclusive, don't force people to cough up info
Why I don't understand libertarians barry's got some great points, and I'll never understand why libertarians accept unfunded mandates from coroporations they didn't elect
