Josh shares an idea about engaging himself in his job by not finishing everything each day. When he arrives at work, he finds (hopefully) an interesting task waiting for him to finish it. The second letter in the current installment of Marian the Librarian deals with a similar topic. Marian recommends finding something enjoyable to [...]
Ross Karchner submitted Brain Engine in the Feedster Developers Contest. It combines data from Share Your OPML with Feedster to facilitate searching for items in the feeds specific people are writing have subscribed to. (My mistake: I misread it on the contest page.) Addendum: One of the nice features is that you can search using [...]
“If Internet-based weblogs turned everyone into a potential newspaper columnist, and digital cameras let them become photojournalists, podcasting is promising to let everyone with a microphone and a computer become a radio commentator.” This quote sounds like a variation on something Jay Rosen said at the Votes, Bits, & Bytes conference that was mentioned during [...]
Josh Ain shares his three Feedster Developers Contest entries. They integrate Feedster searching with Firefox, WordPress, and Firefox/Thunderbird. Download them via links on Josh’s Inspiration and Humor. In my humble opinion, the Firefox plug-in is quite nifty. The page about the contest now has links to people’s submissions.