|
|
How do I order the book?
Order it directly from Amazon:
Or look for it in your favorite neighborhood (independent or chain) bookstore. Ask them to order it for you if you don't see it on the shelves or right up front.
Search
Upcoming
Technorizzle
Making things easier
June 27, 2006
PeopleAggregator relaunches
I seem to recall playing with a prototype of PeepAgg back in the heady social-web miniboom of 2003 but it seems that the real thing is now in alpha. I was invited, I joined it, and I’m poking around. In...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 9:34 AM
on Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 9:34 AM
on Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
June 8, 2006
If you demand it, they will come
Brian Dear from EVDB wrote me recently to bring to my attention the Eventful Demand service on Eventful.com (the event-planning website powered by his EVDB service). He is justifiably proud of this new feature: We premiered it at the O’Reilly...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 10:34 AM
on Thursday, June 8, 2006
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 10:34 AM
on Thursday, June 8, 2006
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
March 1, 2006
Presto! instant website
Aaron Swartz is building infogami in public. So far, it lets you set up a site more or less instantly(junkyard) and edit it like a wiki. The site comes with a blog. Not sure what else it’s going to do....(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 12:45 PM
on Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 12:45 PM
on Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
December 21, 2005
Time for bookmarklets 2.0
Bookmarklets were always a hack, says Kevin Burton in his Feed Blog: Bookmarklets 2.0?. Is it time for some (don't say it!) standards?...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 2:32 PM
on Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (2) | TrackBack
by xian
at 2:32 PM
on Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (2) | TrackBack
October 28, 2005
Alternatives to Meetup
I meant to post a link to Free Alternatives to Meetup back in September: Meetup is a Ghost Town I checked out the list of largest vegan meetups on Meetup.com and over half of the once active groups are now...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 3:16 PM
on Friday, October 28, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1) | TrackBack
by xian
at 3:16 PM
on Friday, October 28, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1) | TrackBack
October 10, 2005
I gada be me
Chris Pirillo and his Lockergnome cohorts launch yet another social meta crawler-y tag search engine site. This one's called gada.be. I first looked at it a week or so ago when Chris was showing it around in beta. I guess...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 4:10 PM
on Monday, October 10, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1) | TrackBack
by xian
at 4:10 PM
on Monday, October 10, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1) | TrackBack
September 29, 2005
BlinkList social bookmarking engine
Another from the "meant to post this a while ago" files. A fellow named Mike Reining from MindValley wrote me to tell me about their BlinkList service. Mike successfully got my attention by showing awareness of this site (and also...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 10:09 AM
on Thursday, September 29, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1) | TrackBack
by xian
at 10:09 AM
on Thursday, September 29, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1) | TrackBack
June 29, 2005
Microformats blog and wiki launch
Tantek (among others?) has launched a site to promote XHTML-based microformats as a microcontent solution building on existing standards. (Boy, poking my head into Yahoo 360 sure gets me up to speed on industry buzz quickly. Then again, that's more...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 5:22 PM
on Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 5:22 PM
on Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
When to use wikis
As the LA Times seemed to have learned, perhaps editorials aren't the best context for publicly editable wiki-ing. Wikis seem to work best when used to build a repository of information by people who share a common goal or ethos....(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 10:29 AM
on Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 10:29 AM
on Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
May 11, 2005
Conversate - instant online discussion spaces
Quoting from Conversate: Conversate lets you create instant online discussion spaces. It's simpler, faster, more polite, and less annoying than group emails.... Try inviting friends to a conversation, no login needed. If you're intrigued, create an account, it's free-- you'll...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 1:28 PM
on Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 1:28 PM
on Wednesday, May 11, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
May 3, 2005
Backpack is 37 Signals' new online personal information manager (PIM)
From the people who brought you Basecamp, here's a new web-based tool for personal information management, to do lists, organizer: Backpack Gather your ideas, to-dos, notes, photos and files online. Set email and mobile reminders so you don't forget the...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 8:36 AM
on Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 8:36 AM
on Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
May 2, 2005
Questions about extended feeds and microcontent (from deusx)
Quoting from Some thoughts about extended feeds & microcontent Is a feed the right place for your data? Do reviews belong in the feed or in the content? How about calendar events—in the feed or in the content? If it’s...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 8:50 PM
on Monday, May 2, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1) | TrackBack
by xian
at 8:50 PM
on Monday, May 2, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1) | TrackBack
March 30, 2005
Joshua Schachter *is* delicious
Popular social bookmark site del.icio.us, widely credited with helping to popularize the current tagging craze, has accepted venture capital funding that will enable creator Joshua Schachter to devote his energy to developing the service full-time, as reported by Schachter himself...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 5:04 PM
on Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 5:04 PM
on Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
March 24, 2005
Txters.com online text messaging community
I was checking in with a Yahoo group set up for alumni of a startup I worked for in the dotcom days and noticed someone pointing to his progile at Txters.com. Looks like YASN, this one geared around enabling free...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 1:59 PM
on Thursday, March 24, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 1:59 PM
on Thursday, March 24, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
March 20, 2005
Ad hoc online-cum-physical social networking
Ben Brown, one of the names I finally met at SXSW this year wrote up a good example of spontaneous social networking on his Intarweb Rockstar blog: Virtual Community Boards, Missed Connections Not Missed, and Ambient Noise Bonus: Jeff Veen...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 10:09 AM
on Sunday, March 20, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 10:09 AM
on Sunday, March 20, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
March 11, 2005
CivicSpace site gets a facelift
A quicky before heading to the airport this a.m. Check out the new version of the CivicSpace site: Free, open source tools for building thriving online communities | CivicSpace...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 4:21 AM
on Friday, March 11, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 4:21 AM
on Friday, March 11, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
March 8, 2005
RSS feeds as queriable neural networks
Jon Udell's got another wonderful "screencast" up: The on-demand blogosphere. I've been a fan of Jon's since he was narrating his content-management system learnings for Byte Magazine. These days he's pioneering a bleeding edge that the rest of us will...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 1:26 PM
on Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 1:26 PM
on Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
March 4, 2005
Wiki conference announced
Seb Paquet points us to this International Symposium on Wikis, currently in the midst of a call for papers and presentations. Should be interesting. Perhaps I can come up with something to submit....(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 9:44 AM
on Friday, March 4, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 9:44 AM
on Friday, March 4, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
February 14, 2005
Hodder notes her increasing reliance on search feeds
Quoting from There are Feeds and Then There are Feeds And about a year ago, I started adding Technorati watchlists, as well as Feedster and Pubsub search feeds, and del.icio.us, Furl and flickr feeds on tags, and looking up terms...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 3:23 PM
on Monday, February 14, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 3:23 PM
on Monday, February 14, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
February 4, 2005
Desktop wiki for Windows
I haven't taken this software out for a spin yet, but WikidPad (WikidPad - wiki notebook/outliner for windows) appears to be fairly similar to my favorite OS X application, Voodoo Pad. I find the wiki format to be a convenient...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 8:47 AM
on Friday, February 4, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (2) | TrackBack
by xian
at 8:47 AM
on Friday, February 4, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (2) | TrackBack
January 29, 2005
Browsing a log of your own thoughts
In tomorrow's Sunday Times, writer Steven Johnson discusses a program called DEVONthink and the general improvement in personal note-taking and idea-management assistance emerging in today's tools and user-interface advances ( Books > Sunday Book Review > Essay: Tool for Thought"...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 2:49 PM
on Saturday, January 29, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 2:49 PM
on Saturday, January 29, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
January 27, 2005
Upcoming conferences
I was syndicating the feed from my Upcoming public event calendar using the same blog plug-in I use to syndicate blog headlines nad descriptions, but my approach wasn't generating proper links for the events. Then I noticed that George Kelly...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 11:44 PM
on Thursday, January 27, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 11:44 PM
on Thursday, January 27, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
January 18, 2005
Napsterization on real existing folksonomies
Quoting Tagging at Technorati, Flickr and Del.icio.us Technorati's new tags page has been getting lots of play in the blogosphere.. since it went live Thursday. It's a brilliant idea, matching tags from Del.icio.us, Flickr and blog post categories as they...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 11:59 AM
on Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (2) | TrackBack
by xian
at 11:59 AM
on Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (2) | TrackBack
January 10, 2005
Self Documenting Technology
Just had to pop this link in here, also from Powers' Burning Bird blog, as it goes to the heart of my sense of how we should all be (in general) helping each other and building up our knowledge...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 3:02 PM
on Monday, January 10, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 3:02 PM
on Monday, January 10, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
January 7, 2005
Lazyweb: I wants my Podcast Guide
Dave sez Dave: "Open the pod bay doors please, Hal." and it gets me thinking. Where is TV Guide for podcasting? Lazyweb: please cause there to be an excellent blog or wiki or folksonomically smart taglicious place online I can...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 11:26 AM
on Friday, January 7, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (2) | TrackBack
by xian
at 11:26 AM
on Friday, January 7, 2005
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (2) | TrackBack
December 23, 2004
Another piece of Mizzen
Reading Building an Address Book as a Modern Web App, I see that deus x has brought up another major facet of the personal social-network web app I'm speccing out in my mind: So, in the spirit of pico-projects, I've...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 8:55 PM
on Thursday, December 23, 2004
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
by xian
at 8:55 PM
on Thursday, December 23, 2004
Permanent link to this entry | TrackBack
December 13, 2004
VoodooPad 2.0 is out
draft notes in progress (based theory of publishing entire process): i am "saddened" to quote Tom Daschle to feel that I must mention that VoodooPad isn't paying me to blog about it!* VoodooPad. You put your brain in it. That's...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 11:23 AM
on Monday, December 13, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
by xian
at 11:23 AM
on Monday, December 13, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
December 10, 2004
Email and Browser URL Extraction and Search via a Personal del.icio.us
I think Jeremy Zawodny's onto something big here. I'll have to add a link to my "why not tag everything" post too, because I think it's part of the same picture (Email and Browser URL Extraction and Search via a...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 11:28 AM
on Friday, December 10, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
by xian
at 11:28 AM
on Friday, December 10, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
November 28, 2004
Firefox taking the Web by storm
If Dori at Backup Brain is right, a large chunk of the tech-support generation have installed Firefox on their parent's computers over Thanksgiving or will do so during the coming Christmas / Hannukah / Solstice holiday, tipping the new browser...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 4:34 PM
on Sunday, November 28, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
by xian
at 4:34 PM
on Sunday, November 28, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
November 19, 2004
Yet another must-read blog: Operating Manual for Social Tools
Looks like Corante's got another blog (Operating Manual for Social Tools) that I should be following here at POM. Where does David Weinberger find the time to contribute to so many weblogs? Also, I'm a little unclear of the overlap...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 10:34 AM
on Friday, November 19, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
by xian
at 10:34 AM
on Friday, November 19, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
November 17, 2004
Tagging bookmarks nonhierarchically
In Towards tag-based bookmark management in web browsers?, Tom Coates proposes a bookmark-classification system somewhat similar to the tagging used at Flickr and Delicious: So since playing with Flickr and working on a little fun project at work on (cough)...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 10:46 AM
on Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
by xian
at 10:46 AM
on Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
November 11, 2004
Skype for Mac OS X
Say, no one told me Skype had come out for the Macintosh (as of October 25!). This is great news. I've been waiting to try this out. All the kool kidz are using Skype (a free Internet telephony solution): Download...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 9:44 AM
on Thursday, November 11, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
by xian
at 9:44 AM
on Thursday, November 11, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
October 25, 2004
Social media the next killer platform?
Adam Bosworth writes: The platform of this decade isn't going to be around controlling hardware resources and rich UI. Nor do I think you're going to be able to charge for the platform per se. Instead, it is going to...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 5:25 PM
on Monday, October 25, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
by xian
at 5:25 PM
on Monday, October 25, 2004
Permanent link to this entry
October 23, 2004
Why not tag everything?
It seems that logging is a no-brainer. Systems already can do journaling and to the computer (by which I mean a central processing unit) everything happens in a totally linear way as it is. The real trick of what we...(See full entry.)
in Making things easier)
by xian
at 4:01 PM
on Saturday, October 23, 2004
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1)
by xian
at 4:01 PM
on Saturday, October 23, 2004
Permanent link to this entry | Comments (1)