5 Minutes For Mom (Free subscription) | yesterday
Welcome to our weekly roundup here at “5 Minutes Around the Blogosphere”. As you know, you can come back all week and add a post or giveaway to our Mister Linky. Be sure to check back often, as new links will be added daily. You don’t want to miss out on something fun. ANNOUNCEMENTS This weekend only,
Dave Lucas (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yoaní Sánchez , Cuba's most famous blogger, who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, Claudia Cadelo (a Global Voices contributor) and Orlando Luís Pardo Lazo . Bloggers express their views concerning the incident . Yoaní has written [es] about the incident...
Scripting News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
This is how TechCrunch works. They write something stupid, then people write rebuttals explaining how it's stupid, building flow and page rank. It's the same method John Dvorak explains in an interview I did with him at the Apple Store in San Francisco a couple of years ago. Anyway... Carr's piece is rubbish, and just this once I'll take the bait. Of course what the nurse at the hospital did, according...
Corante (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Paul Carr has written a post for TechCrunch about citizen journalism and social media entitled After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth. Normally I ignore TechCrunch alone, but so many people I know were impressed with the post that I had to read it. Sadly, it’s riven with poor [...]
Scobleizer (Free subscription) | yesterday
So, the hype got to me. Yesterday I headed to Verizon and bought a Motorola Droid, which runs Google’s Android operating system. Last night my friend Luke Kilpatrick came over and we compared the Droid to the Palm Pre and iPhone. He’s a bit biased toward the Palm, and ran the first Palm Pre Dev Camp [...]
Scripting News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A few days ago I added OPML export to listbrowser.org . Today I want to extend that support to include information from the social network about each user. In this case, the social network is Twitter. I could see situations where this namespace might be used to present information from status.net or Facebook, when they support lists, as Twitter has. I'm going to use the name xSocial. The "x"...
Scripting News (Free subscription) | yesterday
An intriguing tweet yesterday from Steven Levy of Wired Magazine, which, if true, could open huge doors for future-safe archives . Brewster Kahle is talking about the Internet Archive making public S3 storage (what Amazon rents) free on their servers. Does anyone have any more info on this? If this is true, I will be building on it.
Scripting News (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've done a bunch of little stuff for listbrowser.org , fixes and cleanups, added more data to the list pages, and most important, they now link back to the list on twitter.com. This raises the obvious question, how do you get from a list on twitter.com to the listbrowser.org version of that page? For that, we needed a bookmarklet. http://listbrowser.org/bookmarklet Follow the instructions on the page...
TypePad UK News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Search engines are pretty smart, but they also like shortcuts to save time. To help more readers find your posts, the new TypePad lets you quickly add a Google Sitemap to your blog (Bing and...
ProBlogger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Do you plan your posts or do you just write them free flow as they come? This is a question that one of our members at ProBlogger.com (Mark Dykeman) started off a conversation with in the last week. Mark talked in the thread about how he does both (sometimes he uses bullet points for his main points [...] Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger . Do you Write Outlines for Your Blog Posts?
Global Neighbourhoods (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's been my week for hallowed halls of academia. First, I spent a couple of days in the Harvard Faculty Club at the 4th SNCR Symposium, then hopped a red-eye to Dublin where I start a three-city book tour with a pub-based tweet up tonight. Yesterday was my jet lag recovery day and I used the afternoon to walk a strip of this city of 1.4 million. The highlight was my 2nd tour of Trinity College, Ireland's...
MYBLOG by Ouriel (Free subscription) | yesterday
via www.flickr.com i have often complained of the lack of israel maps on google maps for the iPhone. this is a must have product when all 3 mobile operators will launch the iPhone. But i managed to get access to...
Scripting News (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's a good idea when starting something new that you think you're going to do a lot of to start a "newbies" site, to accumulate wisdom about. http://droidie.com/ That's my site. I just posted my "stake-in-the-ground" -- where I'm at after two days using the Droid. I'm building a nest there. So far so good.
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Jim Carrey's bizarre new website should win the award for best version of a Twitter bird. The website has a bird with Jim Carrey's head on it that shares his latest tweets. If you click on the bird it goes to Jim Carrey's Twitter account, @jimcarrey . Well played Jim Carrey. Posted in Twitter Permalink | Recent Headlines | Plurk | Twitter | WWFeeds.com
blackrimglasses.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Sorry this has been so delayed. Since I’m on an airplane now I figure I have time to update this. In prior My So Called Digital Life series, I discussed that I live on multiple machines (two primary machines and the iPhone). In terms of applications I use to make my digital life work, they are [...]
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