links for 2007-01-30
Monday 29 January 2007 - Filed under links
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I’ve learned early on that effective copy (title and blurb) can make or break a Digg submission if the content is good enough. After it hits the front page how long it hangs around is anybody’s guess.
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Passive income from blogging is like a vision of paradise filled with virgins and ever-flowing wine. However, it can be done with hard work, a knack for marketing, and luck. The more content you get the more passive income starts kicking in. Get to it!
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Really nice music blog. Focused on indie music, books and all that other stuff I’d like to follow if I wasn’t on the net so much. Very well-written. Not a combination you find often.
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This could literally level the playing field for small startups literally overnight. Who doesn’t have a Yahoo ID. Now you might be able to use it to avoid registering for an unknown web service.
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These ads actually manage to be funnier than the American counterparts (which made me like the Microsoft dude—no mean feat for me). I think I just like British humour better.
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“An ad-hoc gathering at the Gladstone Hotel of designers, transit geeks, bloggers, visual artists, tech geeks and cultural creators passionate about transit in Toronto and the TTC.” Looks like the BarCamp philosophy is catching on.
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Not surprising that kids are taking their schoolyard tactics straight to cyberspace. Unfortunately, this is an area that parents and teachers can’t monitor effectively. Today street gangs flame each other in chat rooms followed by real violence. Scary.
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Probably one of the best collection of tips for finding a designer written by a first-class practitioner.
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Hilarious take on why Barack Obama is the man to lead us.
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Jim, nothing you could say or do will save Windows except a miracle of Biblical proportions. This is more to do with the pathos of a large corporation’s culture. That’s why you need to make something that doesn’t suck from the outset.
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Kind of ironic since they have “blue” in their name. Maybe it’s a good thing. The last thing I want to see is a massive hairy object on a large plasma screen. Oh well, the HD people will get a easy win on this one. Betamax 2.0 it is.
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I’m sure the Apple lawyers are getting stoked about it as we speak. Doesn’t look to bad. The clock icon looks so much like TimeMachine. But really, what’s the line between copies and the real thing in the age of outsourcing?
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“By 2040 or 2050, the Arctic Ocean will be navigable and that will mean significant developments very soon.” That’s just great if you want to drive your car underwater. We need to make sure it doesn’t melt and deal with energy another way.
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Don’t know where to draw the line between “fake identity” and “protecting privacy” but it’s one of the many judgement calls you have to make with your online presence. Openness does come with a risk.
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In this case PC doesn’t stand for politically correct. They say liberals are more likely to own a mac. So does this make me liberal? “Mac-toting liberal” sure sounds derogatory though.
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Don’t know what kind of “political leadership” is needed outside of nationalization or regulation decreed infrastructure investments. The fact is there is no incentive for companies to improve a public utility like bandwidth.
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I agree that when something becomes an ugly mess like MySpace the best thing is to start over. But that’s all the more reason to let it die. Like poker rooms.
2007-01-29 » baron
30 January 2007 @ 5:43 pm
Thank you very much for linking my article!
30 January 2007 @ 8:13 pm
No problem at all, thanks for writing it. I really enjoy looking at your designs and I’ve been a reader for a while.