AFK, Going to PAX (3)
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I don’t go to many conferences. In fact, the only one I’ve been to (since at least the Dallas Fantasy Fest back in the early ‘90s) was SXSW Interactive early this year. However, I’ve been looking forward to PAX (or Penny Arcade Expo) for months now. I bought my pass and plane tickets and it’s finally right around the corner! I’m really excited. I’m not sure if I am going to do a lot of ...
Announcing Reblogging on DISQUS (6)
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… Now on comments throughout DISQUS, you can find a reblog link where you can publish a quotation of the comment to your blog. This quote is cited with the original author, the blog where it originally appeared, and a link back to the original comment to give the discussion full context. At the moment, we’re supporting publishing to Wordpress, Movable Type, TypePad, and Tumblr with more platforms to come. So next time you see ...
[scribkin] Are You Stream, Digest or Something Else? (12)
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I had a lot of trouble coming up with a short, catchy title for this article, and I’m still not sure if I got it just right. But the idea, which dawned on me a few days ago and is starting to nag at me, is not hard to grasp: I do my best writing when I’m not in the middle of information overload. Now, don’t get me wrong. I love information overload. I have ...
Project SNSO: LiveJournal (4)
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I thought I’d kick off the project by highlighting one of the blogs I’ve used the longest, LiveJournal. Up until recently, LiveJournal was owned by startup Six Apart, which still owns blogging platforms Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox. Late last year, Six Apart sold their LiveJournal unit to Russian international media company SUP, who had been managing LiveJournal in Russia since 2006. What is LiveJournal? LiveJournal (or LJ) describes itself as a journaling community, and ...
Project SNSO: Social Network Shout Out (5)
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I’ve had a really exciting idea growing in my head for about a week now. I guess it germinated when I overlooked giving some credit for an idea on a previous post. Since then, I’ve been more aware of the people involved in stuff that I find interesting. To that end, I wanted to give back a bit. For the next few weeks I am going to concentrate on different social networking applications and the ...
I’m Blogging This! (13)
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There are a lot of opinions out there about what makes a blogger different from a writer, or even a columnist. Bloggers seem to be in their own category according to everyone who writes (either for a living or for the love of it) and is not actually a blogger themselves. Writer Wannabe’s In fact, even bloggers don’t often like referring to themselves collectively as bloggers. It’s almost too easy to say, he’s not a ...
Advanced FriendFeed Tip: The Imaginary Friend (14)
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Silona and the Unicorn They say write about what you know, and since I’ve been spending hours of my time on FriendFeed, I am starting to know it fairly well. The Apology Therefore, I am sorry that I’m contributing to the growing pool of I had this great conversation on FriendFeed and it inspired me to write this post-type posts, but this is going to be one. The Set-Up Recently, there was a conversation on ...
[scribkin] Climbing the Long Tail (9)
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The Long Tail The Bell Curve The long tail. For a relatively simple chart, it appears a lot of additional explanation and rumination is needed to really understand it. And of course, what is more illustrative than a helpful chart? Rewind back about 10 years ago, and a similarly iconic graph was getting a lot of attention: The bell curve. Here, too, a relatively simple diagram was tossed out like a life-saver the hapless reader, ...
Toluu Learns to Hover (7)
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Caleb has added a new feature to his socialized RSS feed sharing app, Toluu today. Now, anywhere in Toluu when you see a feed name and you hover your cursor over it, you will get a pop-up dialog with the feed name and the last 5 articles titles. If you click on the article titles, you will be transported directly to the article in question. This new feature will reduce the amount of context switching ...
Wordle Now Does RSS (15)
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I don’t know how I missed this, but the fantastic little text-as-art app Wordle now will take any RSS feed and generate a wordle from it. Make one for your site today! Related posts Scribkin is Now a Book!
Mea Culpa (6)
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In Latin, mea culpa means, “my fault.” Mea – me, and culpa – culpable. In this case, I have to apologize for not updating in a few days. You can probably guess the reason why. Yes, I got an iPhone. A white 16GB model to be specific. I love it. And I’ve been using it pretty much to the exclusion of all else. iPhone Unboxing Gallery, "Video Games Live" Concert Gallery More About the iPhone ...
