July 2009
7 posts
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Microformatting
For some time now I’ve been using rel-license; today I added
hAtom and hCard. hCard was easy; I decided to just drop the
url and fn attributes into a link around my name. hAtom, however, was a bit
more difficult.
Things started out well thanks to
Emily Lewis’ helpful guide, but
Optimus microformat validator kept insisting that I was missing the
author attribute. The guide addresses this, noting...
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‘Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch’ →
Michael Pollan takes on food porn.
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‘Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?’ →
The story of how De Beers (with help from
advertising firm N.W.
Ayer) created the romantic ‘diamonds are forever’ mythos.
See also: ‘The New Diamond Age’
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Reboot the News #16 →
I’ve recently begun listening to Reboot the News after steadily ignoring it. I was particularly taken by this episode’s discussion of the authoritative cloak journalists put on, and whether they truly deserve it.
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Television, Summer 02009
This summer has seen a dramatic leap in the amount of television I
watch — previously it was NFL (regular season
onward) and a very rare ‘plop on the couch’; now I’ve begun regularly watching
as much as twenty-two programs each week. I’d say the primary factor is my
computer trouble, as I’ve mostly swapped time in front of a laptop for time in
front of a TV.
My present schedule is composed of...
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‘Fever and the Future of Feed Readers’ →
Alex Payne:
Today, at least in the web-tech echo chamber, feed reading is quickly falling
out of fashion. Too many sites producing too many feeds of dubious quality
means information overload, and a creeping sense of obligation to keep up
with a torrent of questionably relevant content. Some have gone back to
checking a handful of bookmarked sites, as we did in the early days of the
...
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What I Want in a Bookmarking Service
When Maciej Cegłowski first put out the call for people to alpha-test Pinboard, I quickly applied. After accepting me, Maciej asked what kinds of features I was looking for. I didn’t have much to offer except complaints about the limits of delicious, but I’ve since spent some time trying to come up with a more definitive list. My ideas are primarily drawn from experience with delicious, Pinboard,...