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Kottke’s best articles of 2004
Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
Kottke makes a nice long list of his favorite web articles of the year. As if my reading list weren’t backlogged enough already!
CNET funds WordPress
Friday, October 29th, 2004
PhotoMatt, the guy responsible for the WordPress blogging software, landed a job with CNET. Fifteen percent of his work time will be spent on WordPress.
A reason to switch to WordPress
Friday, October 22nd, 2004
Cory Doctorow praises Flickr’s integration of comments RSS feeds and hopes for more systems to adopt them. Here’s an (unrealistic) solution: everyone switch to Word Press. It has RSS feeds for comments and categories built in. And it’s open source.
Disinfo on Key 23
Tuesday, October 19th, 2004
From today’s Disinfo newsletter:
Key 23 is a new site on magick and related subcultures that features commentary from Jason Louv, Klint Finley and other Disinfo staff and alumni. I’ve had fun checking out their explorations of the chaos tradition and newer ideas. Jason (and Klint) have brought a regenerative perspective to the site, with their […]
Party like it’s 2003
Friday, October 15th, 2004
In addition to Margin Walker being back, William Gibson and Susannah Breslin are blogging again.
Last Word Books blog
Thursday, August 26th, 2004
My pals at Last Word Books in Olympia have finally got a blog. And it owns. In addition to local Oly stuff (which I realize most people outside of Oly aren’t interested in), it has stuff like this: The rock band Queen is the first band to receive an official seal of approval […]
The future of occulture: Key23
Monday, July 26th, 2004
Key 23, a new occulture group blog from Mad Ghoul, Sauceruney, Wes, Mindwarp, LVX23 and me, launched today. From Michael’s history of the project:
What is Key 23? Key 23 comes from author Grant Morrison?s The Invisibles graphic novel. Originally termed Key 17, and then remonikered with the 23 later in the series, Key […]
Movable Type style sheets
Tuesday, June 8th, 2004
Movable Style is a collection of style sheets that work with the default Movable Type templates and can be simply dropped into Movable Type to change the look….
Central Europe blog
Friday, April 23rd, 2004
Generation Expat "A blog devoted to those who lived in Budapest, Prague and other East Euro environs in the early 1990s, specifically those involved in Budapest Week and Prognosis newspapers and their circle of friends." BTW, I am in Budapest….
Link-soup Notes from ETcon 04
Tuesday, February 10th, 2004
(I will probably be updating this on an ongoing basis) General coverage: Boing Boing, ETcon itself, Plasticbag, Smart Mobs, Social Beasts, Wired News, and Zephoria NEW: ETcon WIKI with tons of notes Mobile Hacks [PDF] by the Mobile Whack team….
the Spam of Tomorrow
Thursday, January 15th, 2004
Paul Graham on methods of bypassing spam filters And of course, spams won't work so well if they have to be rewritten in more neutral language. People who respond to spams are presumably pretty dull-witted, and have to be hit…
Klintron’s Brain mobile
Thursday, January 8th, 2004
You can now browse Klintron's Brain on many (most?) web enabled cellphones and such though winksite.com. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Wink works on my hiptop. However, it doesn't work as well as I'd like. I can't login,…
Link-soup 1.5.04: neomods, robots, and more
Tuesday, January 6th, 2004
Speedbird a guide for neomods by Adam. Magicbike via Anne Gareth Branwyn's new book Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots is out. The Art of Apology via Boing Boing Nancy Wake, international women of mystery via Becca…
Gift economy wiki
Sunday, December 28th, 2003
Potlatch: the Gift Economy. Needs some exploring. Was just thinking about an interesting property of gift economies, such as Burning Man or (usually) the web: you pay to provide, not to consume. Consumption in a gift economy is free (ok,…
We Hate Spam, Congress Says. Except From Us
Saturday, December 27th, 2003
"Even as Congress was unanimously approving a law aimed at reducing the flow of junk e-mail, members were sending out hundreds of thousands of unsolicited messages to constituents" Many members of Congress praise the new policy for allowing cheaper and…
Linklogging 12/24/03: prognostications and more
Thursday, December 25th, 2003
Further into the future than 2004: CIA's global trends for 2020. But looking at the Project for the New American Century is probably more useful (PFNAC has a very well designed site I must say). Best and Worst Case Scenarios…
2003 in review, things to come in 2004
Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
Don't have time to comment on any of this properly right now.. which is a pain since I may never get back to it… but here's some stuff: Die Puny Humans is running a series of predictions for 2004 by…
Proto-webs: Paul Otlet’s Universal Book
Friday, November 21st, 2003
Box and Arrows article on Paul Otlet: In 1934, years before Vannevar Bush dreamed of the memex, decades before Ted Nelson coined the term ?hypertext,? Paul Otlet envisioned a new kind of scholar's workstation: a moving desk shaped like a…
Technoccult, now with less ugliness
Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
So I finally got around to making a bunch of design changes to Technoccult that I'd been meaning to do for a long time. I don't hate it anymore….