I took a break from coding statzen this morning to read some blogs and I saw a post from Dave Winer talking about Yet Another Feedburner Problem. The gist of which is described here. Basically, you can send a single http request to Feedburner that will drastically inflate (or likely deflate) the subscriber count [...]
The absolute uselessness of the Techmeme Leaderboard is being noticed and agreed upon by what seems to be every blogger on the internet minus a small minority. There is a fascination with rankings and top 100 lists. As I see it there are two driving forces for the creation of and attention to [...]
The other day I lamented the lack of tag capability in XMLRPC for Wordpress 2.3. Mapping tags to mt_keywords in Wordpress just made sense and it was a shame that the WP development team didn’t think of it.
The cool thing about it is that I was wrong. Wordpress 2.3 has exactly the behavior [...]
I have upgraded to Wordpress 2.3, though I had been running alpha, beta, and release candidates for a while). Now that the final release is out I decided to move to a new theme. I had heard that the new Wordpress 2.3 default theme was going to be based on Sandbox. Unfortunately [...]
Have you ever noticed how the longer you know someone, the more frequently they tell you stories you have already heard? I suspect we all have this set of stories that we tell; I know I do. These are stories that have had a memorable impact on us in some way shape or [...]
Last weekend a couple of friends we haven’t seen in a while joined us for brunch at our house. I knew Dan and Lisa from Nashville (though through different circles), but we became much better friends while I lived in DC (where they still live). Sabrina and I used to go over the [...]
I signed up for Twitter on March 7th, 2007. In the six months since then I have 1159 “tweets”. I have looked at other microblogging tools, but haven’t had a compelling reason to use them (aside from a handful of Facebook status updates). While I am a big fan of microblogging in [...]
One of the greatest things about having a blog is being able to go back in time and read what I was thinking at the time. I can go to similar phases of my life and read the cryptic clues to what I was experiencing.
One year ago today I posted about mobile blogging with flickr. [...]
I have been hearing people talking about Lifestreaming more and more lately. It is one of those words that is just vague enough that I am not sure what it means and just familiar enough that I feel like I know what it means. The problem is that I couldn’t decide between two [...]
Back when I first started putting bits and bites on the internet, it was important to be listed in the DMOZ directory. To be listed in DMOZ you must choose the single category that best describes your site. At the time, jaxn.org was mostly a place for me to showcase my code (primarily [...]
