Jackson Fox

The Weblogs Inc blogs (Engadget for example) and Longhorn Blogs and both running Google AdSense ads. Is anyone really surprised that Google is getting into the RSS advertising game?

I find the whole idea of ads in RSS feeds rather silly. Want me to visit your site? Then publish a feed with excerpts or titles. I […]

Wists is a visual social bookmarking site. Kind of like del.icio.us with pictures. I’ve found that the site solves a problem I didn’t know that I had: Sharing things that I’ve found on the web which are really visual, not textual. Honestly, I didn’t think this was a real problem, but dang if I don’t […]

A new use (for me at least) for del.icio.us: keeping notes for a class project on folksonomy and knowledge discovery

Marc Smith is a sociologist at Microsoft Research interested in computer-mediated communications. You’ll see his name a lot in Howard Rheingold’s books.

This is the photo he has on his webpage. The funny (sad?) thing is, the moment I saw it I thought to myself “holy crap, is that a tree map behind him?”

Collecting some notes on Page Description Diagrams.

BD4D - User Interface Design Asterisk - Page Description Diagrams Dan Brown @ Boxes & Arrows - Where the Wireframes Are: Special Deliverable #3

Summary

A means of describing a webpage in terms of function and organized by priority.

An example from Design Eye.

Start/stop/restart a service from the command line:

service [name] start|restart|stop

Add or remove a service from a specific runlevel:

chkconfig –level [level] [name] on|off

If you want to use a tool that supports the metaWeblog API with WordPress, you need to point the application at /path/to/wordpress/xmlrpc.php. See WordPress XML-RPC Support in the WordPress Codex.

Just added link #1000 over on del.icio.us

The University of South Florida has a campus-wide weblog network called blog@USF. The really nice part is that it’s built with WordPress and Gallery, and features integration with Flickr and del.icio.us. Looks like they have single-signon and any student can get one.

I’ve been playing around with the new Ubuntu 5.04 Live CD tonight, and so far I’m pretty impressed. I’ve been keeping come notes (and keeping mpt in mind) which I’ll post up later.