I realized the other day that I don’t really watch network TV anymore. For some reason my TV gets an odd disruption every few minutes, and it seems to happen most prevailantly on the big three, yet not on Fox, which in my zone lands squarely between the others on 4,5 and 7. Sure, I might watch the formerly big guys on the bedroom tv once in a while, but the truth is, I don’t miss them. They don’t really…
Via Charlie on the MBTA With little fanfare last week the Boston MBTA retired the Boeing Trolleys from the Green Line, on the heels of the final delivery of the new(?) Breda cars – which themselves are over 9 years late on delivery. These vehicles were considered one of the bigger public transportation screw ups in history (until the Bredas came along). Interesting note on the old Boeing cars – they had over 1300 pieces in their door assemblies. Nothing like…
Via Andy Dickinson (if you want to find out about video in publishing, that’s where you go…) Original diagram by Cheryl Colan is here. Simple enough stuff…you could just as easily use YouTube for the vid hosting bit and plug it into your WordPress or other blog, although I’m not certain you could use VPIP.org to create different versions. I’m going to have to give this a try, but don’t get your hopes up, I have yet to do my…
I’ve just been watching Matt McAlister’s vidcast on Yahoo Pipes. I’ve been trying to do similar things with rss aggregators for the past couple years, with some success. Notably, I had built a categorized feed aggregator for Reel-Time.com – which eventually fell down because we had so few real bloggers. I’m thinking that Yahoo Pipes could be an interesting way to deliver timely niche content to a site. It allows you to analyze the content to some degree, hence you ought to…
We had thick, heavy snow Friday into Saturday making a mess of things. Usually it would have been no big thing, I’d have worked Friday from home, occassionally running my aged Ariens snowblower around the driveway to keep up with the mess. This wasn’t usually, I had an important demo and had to trudge into Burlington, via the physical therapist’s office. No big problems on the way in. I had every intent on getting back on the road at noon, but…
Circe Link from her 2005 tour of Japan – more at her site here…
Driving down the road this morning and I noticed a mattress shop with signs up for their big promotion – they’re now “The Limber Liquidators.” Nice alliteration, but the truth is, they’ve made a serious blunder. After all I believe most of us would really like to be more limber, not less, and we’d certainly prefer not to make ourselves stiffer. We all get meanings wrong from time to time. Let’s try to remember that consulting a $5.95 dictionary before…
Joanne Barnard singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” at a practice for the 12-30-06 reunion of the Worcester music scene’s 70’s favorite Zonkaraz.
Some sites are starting to see test ads showing up with such dramatic new features as italics and images in the text ads. While I may seem snarky, it’s the next step for the feature which we’ve almost universally learned to ignore. Really, when was the last time you clicked a Google Adsense Ad…really? Read about the up coming changes here. And for the record, Google could probably learn a thing or two from the newspaper classifeds – where you pay…
Another great post from John Whiteside…”Things that Amaze Me” – a quick list of all too common mistakes on the web. I often go to the web site of a retail store, and the store locator is hard to find. I often go to restaurant web sites and can’t find the hours of operation anywhere on the site. I do Google searches for restaurants, and can’t find the restaurant’s web site because all the top search results are dining guides,…