Posts categorized as Blogging
People love my shared items feed
It's a bit surreal, but I've heard from quite a few people that my shared items feed (a.k.a. linkblog type thing) is a really good read and they find a lot of awesome stuff in it. It's a big mixup of cool artistic stuff, extremely interesting articles I've read, weird shit, and cool development (programming) posts. I can't really explain what sort of genre it falls into, but it's unabashedly Clint. Many people may not know that I post linky-things to two different places. I use both Google Reader and I share items I don't find in Google Reader to ...
Posted on: 2008 March 16
Filed under: Blogging
facebook, googlereader, linkblog, shareditems, tumble, tumblelog
Nerd Alert
I know the going is slow here. I've been doing a lot more nerd blogging over on our Stone Ward Interactive blog. So if you're into web development and other technical subjects, check it out!
Posted on: 2008 March 14
Filed under: Blogging, Django, Programming
SXSW: Friday and Saturday
We left our apartment in Chicago around 6am and made it to the airport on time. We had a mini freakout when we encountered not one, but two sprawling and packed security check lines. To make matters worse, I only have an expired driver's license for identification and I was a little worried it would hold me up. I performed some ninja moves and found a tucked away security line that not many had discovered and we zipped through. My lack of non-expired identification was actually not that big of deal. They lady hassled me a little bit and then ...
Posted on: 2008 March 08
Filed under: Blogging, Health & Lifestyle, Internet, Social Networking, Technology
New blogs I'm reading
As I mentioned in my previous post, my new organization system has allowed me to check out a bunch of new blogs and I really wanted to post here about the sites I'm keeping in case other people might be interested in checking them out. HorsePigCow - This is the blog of Tara Hunt. She's co-founder of Citizen Agency in SF. The Ministry of Type - Another typography blog, but I like the pace and subjects showcased here. Andrew Mager's Blog - Virginian, now lives in the bay area, works at CNET. Loves to get his photo taken with people. ...
RSS organization systems, how about you?
About a month ago I decided to initiate an experiment. I would switch over to Google Reader and reboot my feed reading tactics. I had read posts by Matt Wood and Jason Kottke (who had expanded on Matt's system). I had accumulated a very hodge-podge organization system which had grown quite wooly over the past four years or so. At one point I was reading up to 500 subscriptions daily when I was writing for Ars on a regular basis, and with a poor organization system it was get quite overwhelming. My previous system looked like this: Ars Ars Projects ...
Posted on: 2008 February 03
Filed under: Blogging, Technology
aggregators, feeds, googlereader, lifehacks, organization, RSS, subscriptions
Futzing and Resistance to Change
Riding the train this morning to O'Hare, I read two great articles posted by Tara Hunt on her blog. Tara co-founded and works for Citizen Agency in San Francisco and is an Online Marketing Professional. That stuff is all in her about page, but as I've been subscribed to her blog over the past few days (and creepily following her on Twitter for a while... just kidding), I've come to really enjoy her posts. The two recent posts I'm referencing are Futzing as the Future of Word and The Human Body Teaches Us to Embrace the Chaos. The first is ...
Posted on: 2008 January 13
Filed under: Blogging, Health & Lifestyle, Marketing, Social Networking
bridgingcurrency, change, exercise, knowledgebroker, marketing, socialcapitol
Bits and bobbles before Macworld
Things have been moving extremely quickly in our run up to the week of Macworld over the past few days. Because I have so little time, I am proceeding to engage in a massive brain dump. In no specific order, here we go: I've secured a G4 Powerbook to use next week from our good friend Adam Received the Eye-Fi and discovered that it is extremely close to being able to perform the tasks I wished, but falls oh so short. I'll talk about those in an upcoming article on the device on Infinite Loop. Besides not being able to ...
Two videos for a slow Sunday afternoon
You read TechMeme, right? For those who don't, it's a completely automated site that pulls, organizes and displays the hottest news from blogs at any given moment. It changes continuously, 24/7 in response the the "buzziest" news of the second. Amit Pagarwal at Digital Inspiration made a pretty cool 50 hour time lapsed visualization (down to 50 seconds) of the evolution of the TechMeme home page: And if you're familiar with the Scoble/Facebook thing (as well as that stupid video made about Britney by Chris Cocker), this might be a little entertaining:
Posted on: 2008 January 06
Filed under: Blogging, Fun, Technology
How's my about page?
On my old blog, I talked a little bit about exceptional about pages. I'm one of those people who almost always reads your about page, and I really feel like it's the most important part of someone's website (second to really interesting content, that is.) I'm not the only one either. Have you seen my new "About Clint" page? Anything you'd recommend? Anything else you'd like to know or see? http://blog.clintecker.com/info/about/
Your social graph: do you own the data?
A big stupid brou-ha-ha erupted last night when blogged Robert Scoble ran a script written by Plaxo against his 5,000 Facebook friends' information and got banned in short order. Scoble initially posted that Facebook banned his account and only later admitted he'd been screen scraping, or brute-force removing information from Facebook using an unnamed tool by a 3rd party (he was under NDA). Scoble was miffed that Facebook would ban him for trying to help "free" his "own social data" that "he owns." This isn't a new movement, people have been pressuring Facebook for a while now to let them ...
Posted on: 2008 January 03
Filed under: Blogging, Internet
facebook, karaswisher, nickcarr, plaxo, portability, privacy, scoble, scrape, socialgraph
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