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This is great. Om is picking up the blog challenge and pulled in three others. I thought it was a great idea and instead of doing it all by myself, I roped in three guys to the 30 day blog challenge. I think world needs a lot more classic blogging — from links to photos to essays. I…
People aren’t updating to iOS 8 as quickly as was first thought. The main reason? Free space on the device. John Gruber: It’s all about the over-the-air update requiring 5 GB of free storage space, and many people not having that much free space, and not knowing how or simply not wanting to deal with it. It took me…
If you know a student, or a faculty member, you may want to point them to the GitHub Student Developer Pack: There‘s no substitute for hands-on experience, but for most students, real world tools can be cost prohibitive. That‘s why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our partners and friends: to give students free…
Simon Willis, reporting that new, refreshed downloads are now available for the Sea Kayak with Gordon Brown videos: Firstly, I went back to the source file and used improved compression software to produce higher quality downloads at a faster bit-rate. Secondly, each film is now an .mp4 file (rather than .mov) and, at customers‘ request, each has chapters…
I feel the same way _David Smith does about trying to find Emoji in the default iOS keyboard: I feel like I’m always playing a game of memory each time I’m try to craft my perfectly composed Emoji response. It is pretty painful. So, Smith set out to fix it with Emoji++, a keyboard that adds the Emoji…
Google Street View is pretty amazing. Here is the corner of Adams and Spruce in Scranton — the same corner Coalwork is on today and from where I’m writing this post. But something got me thinking this morning… I love looking at old photos of cities (example) from 10, 20, 50 or 100 years ago. Fast forward a…
Great nugget from Paul Graham’s latest piece “Before the Startup”: The way to succeed in a startup is not to be an expert on startups, but to be an expert on your users and the problem you‘re solving for them. I see so many “entrepreneurs” that are caught up in the startup culture. That are more concerned with having a…
Tom Hickey, of Cork Ireland, on his personal blog in a post titled Stop feeling sorry and start living: I write a blog that’s mainly about my life coming to terms with facial disfigurement. I wanted to share my pain, hopes and dreams, and show you that despite so many setbacks I managed to come out the other…
Brandon Page on Storehouse: This last trip, I put my pro camera down, and ran around the city with my iPhone. This is the first time I have shown this collection outside of Instagram. Content exclusive to Instagram. I know a few photographers raised their eyebrows at this… however, it appears that the vast majority of Instagram users…
Lockhard Steele (how does someone have a name that awesome?), on daily blogging: Harder than it looks. Fell off the wagon hard last week in the depths of Eater bug-crushing. Still trying to find a rhythm to this practice. Typing this while on a conference call (suboptimal). Agreed. I’ve been super, super busy at work and with our…
Holy cow, a Space Bit! Gorgeous photos of Mars coming in from ISRO’s recent mission on the cheap.
I went from bullish to puzzled, back to bullish, and now downright miffed by the messaging roller coaster that Ello is on. I think we all want to see someone, anyone, make great things. You know my stance on these things. I say, applaud people that make things. Making things is hard and people won’t get it right…
As if I needed more fodder to convince myself as to why I shut off all notifications on my phone, tablet, and computer. Clay Shirky wrote an excellent piece on Medium about why he has changed his mind and now asks his students to close their laptops and put away their phones. Here is a bit about multi-tasking:…
Over the years I’ve been in the paper a few times for various reasons. Mostly good. However, something that I’ve learned is that you never really know how you’re going to be portrayed, what information you provide the writer will use or not use, or how the article will come across to the general public. So, my advice…
I agree so hard on this. Brent Simmons: I’ve often had the thought that our social networks are the same thing every day, with just slightly different details. When I skip them for a few days, I find that I have absolutely no feeling of missing anything. Here are some things that don’t give me that same-thing-every-day feeling:…
Jason Snell, on his still smells-like-a-new-car blog Six Colors regarding whether or not the iPhone 6 Plus is like a small iPad: When Apple announced the iPhone 6 Plus on Sept. 9, I entertained the idea that it might be a replacement for my iPad mini. At last, the promise of a single device small enough to fit in…
It was nice to be included in Founders Grid’s list of productivity hacks. When they asked me what productivity hacks I had for other founders this is what I wrote: Productivity hacks are a myth. Not that none of the proposed productivity hacks we see every day do not work, just that any of them will work if…
Can you hear it? I can. Read this, as reported on the very great GigaOm: Twitter’s timeline is organized in reverse chronological order… but this “isn’t the most relevant experience for a user,” Noto said. Timely tweets can get buried at the bottom of the feed if the user doesn’t have the app open, for example. “Putting that…
Jess Brown on taking the challenge to write on his blog: Hopefully my writing will bring an audience and an audience will bring opportunities. It does and will Jess.
When people are willing to talk or write about your product it is a good thing. It doesn’t matter if what they write is positive or negative — if they write negatively you can fix the issues they mention and if they write positively you can sit back and smile. This morning I walked into work and read…
Marco Arment’s comment on his blog a few days ago got me thinking… we should be doing a better job to promote RSS. So here is one way to try doing it. My RSS feed is https://cdevroe.com/feed To subscribe to my RSS feed you need an RSS reader. There a tons of these for every platform. You can…
Elizabeth Spiers, one of the founders of Gawker, on her newly revitalized personal blog: So in the interest of rejecting later and discriminating less severely, here is my contract with you, the reader: I will write mostly badly and more often. Not so much that either of us want to slit our wrists, but more than I’m doing…
Adam Kuban, who was behind the original New York pizza blog Slice, in an interview by Ben Leventhal: I miss the early days when you could just get up a post about whatever and just kind of express yourself without really thinking about page views, thinking about SEO, thinking about how it will play on Twitter, if it’s…
There is so much awesome going on in the resurgence of personal blogging. I can’t stop reading and linking and smiling. Brent Simmons: My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. It has seen Flickr explode and then fade. It’s seen Google Wave and Google Reader come and go, and it’ll still be here…