Garth Kidd (of iPodder development fame) has joined forces with Nicole Simon (that’s zee-mohn to the USians out there) to begin the “Don’t steal my focus” initiative.
Nicole has asked those of us who share their predilection to blog about it, so here I am, blogging it.
This issue has bothered me for a long time. […]

I’ve been trying the new iPodder 2.0 beta for a few days now, and while I’m in rant mode I decided to rant a little bit about this here as well.
I never know whether to start rants like this with the stuff that I think is good or to end with the good stuff, but […]

So, apparently, I jumped the shark on my post about the Scientific American feed (and then, yesterday, I made it even worse by refering to the “shark-jumping post” again).
See, SciAm contacted me this morning and let me in on a little secret.
That wasn’t their feed.
Shhh!
Seriously, though, what I linked to was the […]

Ars Technica - powered by FeedBurner: “ Ars Technica“
OK, maybe I’m wrong, but it suddenly seems that the Ars Technica feed has become overly ad-infested.
I’ve said it here before (recently) that I’m fine with text ads in my RSS feeds, but when they start getting in the way of the content then I start to […]

…and here’s why (from an email to SciAm):
Just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that I am unsubscribing from your RSS feed and why.
1> Too many ads, too prominently placed and intrusive
I am not a big fan of ads in RSS feeds, but I am willing to accept them in the […]

ongoing · Testing Backward
I’ve never run into the particular problem that Tim encounters here, but that’s not to say that I wouldn’t - it seems a particularly easy mistake to make; once a method is stubbed out I think I as a developer tend to forget about it until I’m ready to fill it out, […]

Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit || kuro5hin.org
This is a really intersting and insightful article about procrastination and tools and habits that might make it better. Not a scientific study by any means, but a good primer and analysis of some practical thinking points about work and pleasure.
Interesting quote (no citation given):
Studies […]

podcasting - a Whatis.com definition - see also: podcast, podcaster, podosphere
Another “mainstream” hit for podcasting - it’s the word of the day on WhatIs.com!

librarian.net : learn this word: folksonomy
This word is getting a lot of “press” these days. I’m curious to see where it goes, so I’m going to track its growth here. Here goes:

folksonomy at technorati - much easier to read than the RSS feed
2005-01-14: 232 posts matching folksonomy sorted by most recent. […]

The “Yahoo” problem
It’s probably just me, but after reading this post, I get the distinct impression that the only people who could possibly be thoughtful are one who agree with Dave Winer. Not only that, but they must agree both with Dave’s solution and with the fact that there’s a problem (surely a debateable […]