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  • David Mead: \”Why is Feedly so hard to use?\”

    David Mead writes about Feedly: There seems no way to see all your feeds in one place, and mange them accordingly. Everything has to be a “collection”. Those only show a few on the screen at any one time. So you have to keep expanding and collapsing boxes to make simple changes. It got to…

  • Independence is a long play

    Jason Kottke re: Medium’s announcement and why he chose not to move Kottke.org to Medium: New businesses are unstable…that’s just the way it is. In Silicon Valley (and in other startup-rich areas), these unstable businesses have lots of someone else’s money to throw around — which makes them appear more stable in the short term…

  • Dan Rubin’s iPhone 7 Plus ring light portraits

    Friend Dan Rubin took the new iPhone 7 Plus out for a test-drive using a ring light. On whether or not the iPhone 7 Plus is the best smartphone to get for jumping into photography: Is it the best place to start if you’re just trading up to a smartphone for photography? I don’t think…

  • How I converted from Custom Post Types to Post Formats

    It wasn’t too ugly. But it wasn’t exactly a cool swim either. I thought I would jot down why and how I moved from using a Custom Post Type for each type of post that I publish here — status, photo, audio, and normal post — to Post Formats. First, why move to Post Formats from Custom Post…

  • Great photo of Prince from Lloyd Bishop

    Great photo of Prince from Lloyd Bishop: http://lloydbishop.tumblr.com/post/143174510389/rip-prince-nbc

  • Bijan be gone

    Bijan Sabet, on his Tumblr: I deactivated my Facebook account this morning. The slide continues. Ironically, today is the day I decided to cut my #60daybreak short and I jumped back on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat. I have my reasons. More soon.

  • Publish anywhere you can export your data and keep your URLs

    Dave Winer recently wrote that if you have something you want to publish that you should publish it anywhere but Medium. His argument is that Medium could shut down or change course at any moment and your content and your URLs would then be in jeopardy of disappearing. He’s right. That could happen. But that…

  • Pogue leaves Evernote

    David Pogue on his Tumblog: But here’s the thing: Over time, Evernote has grown bulky, complex, and buggy. He also shares how he moved to Apple Notes using an AppleScript. See: here, and here.

  • Beautiful Maps

    Beautiful Maps by Dennys Hess. I love maps. /via Coudal.

  • Crayon Sculptures by Hoang Tran

    Superb sculptures in crayon by Hoang Tran. Ackbar is fantastic. /via iGNANT.

  • A case for modernizing blogs

    Marco Arment: If we want it to get better, we need to start pushing back against the trend, modernizing blogs, and building what we want to come next. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time you know that I agree with him. And I also don’t pretend to know the answers. Here…

  • Shane Burcaw

    Speaking of NEPA BlogCon… the closing presenter was Shane Burcaw. Shane suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Three years ago he started a Tumblog and decided to hit publish. The rest of the story can be found in a book that comes out tomorrow titled after his non-profit foundation; Laughing At My Nightmare. Shane’s presentation was,…

  • The longblog

    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…

  • Blogging every weekday for 30 days

    Who’s in for the challenge? I’ll give it a shot. Fred Wilson pointed to Lockhart Steele and Elizabeth Spiers. Spiers mentioned trying it for 30 days so I thought that was a good idea. Writing has never been an issue for me. I’ve typed a bunch of posts here. But I’ve strayed from the personal…

  • William Shatner and Facebook Mentions

    For reference: App Constellations. First, William Shatner has a Tumblog. I’m cool with this. Second, he wrote about Facebook Mentions — yet another app from Facebook specifically created to help “celebrities” with managing their Facebook accounts. He writes: I’m not quite sure why Facebook released this app for “celebrities”. It seems to be ill conceived. I…

  • Kurkdjian on Vimeo

    I’ve been following Guillaume Kurkdjian’s Tumblr for awhile. He posts “weekly animated gifs”. But, what’s better than a gif? An animation with sound. Vehicle #4 – Food Truck from Guillaume Kurkdjian on Vimeo. Check out his recent videos on Vimeo.

  • Yes, it is more work to subscribe than to follow, but that is OK with me

    Fred Wilson, in A Founder’s Notebook, describing how “hard” it is to subscribe to a blog that isn’t on Tumblr but is on the open internet. My only complaint is that its not on Tumblr, where it would be an instant and easy follow. It takes more work to follow a blog when its on…

  • Will we lose the web?

    Cory Doctorow, on his personal blog, is worried we’ll lose the web this year: Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web. It is worrisome. “They” have always ruined everything. We know we can’t have anything nice. And for the last several decades we’ve had the…

  • Source Code in TV and Films

    If you’re even remotely geeky you’ll have noticed countless instances of code showing up in television shows and movies. And, usually, you can see that the code is total junk. In comes this tumblog which showcases code in TV and films and goes the extra mile to detail what the code is actually designed to…

  • In dependence

    Jeremy Keith has chimed in on the conversation started by Jason Kottke’s "The blog is dead" piece from a few weeks ago with In dependence. Many of us are feeling an increasing unease, even disgust, with the sanitised, shrink-wrapped, handholding platforms that make it oh-so-easy to get your thoughts out there …on their terms …for…

  • Katie cancelled

    I’ve never seen a single episode of Katie Couric’s daytime show Katie. And I don’t know why I’m posting about this at all. But I found it intriguing that less than a month ago Yahoo! CEO Marisa Mayer wrote: In addition to being the face of Yahoo News and shooting features for our homepage, Katie…

  • The blog isn’t dead. It is just sleeping.

    Jason Kottke, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab: The design metaphor at the heart of the blog format is on the wane as well. Ina piece at The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal says that the reverse-chronological stream (a.k.a. The Stream, a.k.a. The River of News) is on its way out. Snapchat, with its ephemeral media, is an obvious…

  • After iOS 7 icons

    This Tumblog is making the rounds; After iOS 7 icons. Essentially it is a gallery of app icons showing what they looked like before and after their iOS 7 updates. I know many have said that the aesthetic of iOS 7 is stripping the personality of apps and they may be right. But I think what…

  • What I saw this week #4: September 13, 2013

    Vacations are weird. We work really hard before vacation so that we can, you know, go on vacation, and we work really hard after vacation. I’m doing the latter part of that this week by trying to catch up from being a week away. I’ve been successful! Now, onto this week’s links. Whisky tour of…

  • Things I saw this week #2: August 30, 2013

    This has been a busy week. We’ve just turned on the sales engine at Barley and it has been interesting to go out and talk to potential new customers, resellers, and partners. Even with this busy week, though, I managed to find some interesting things on the web. Here are some of them. I’m on…

  • Greenville Grok was different and better

    This past week Kyle Ruane and I drove to Greenville, South Carolina for the Greenville Grok – a half-week long string of events and activities put together by the great folks at The Iron Yard. Grok is unlike most conferences in a number of great ways. Most conferences focus on providing headline speakers to bring in a crowd.…

  • Jim Ray on Twitter #music

    Jim Ray reviews Twitter #music: Tellingly, you can’t get to a musician’s tweets from within the app to decide whether you want to follow them based on the content of their stream, you’re just supposed to follow all of your favorite musicians and be in awe of their celebrity, I guess. Yesterday I tweeted that while Twitter #music looked…

  • Travel Channel makes fake commercial using Bourdain footage and audio

    Anthony Bourdain, who has it in his contract with Travel Channel that he must explicitly approve all uses of his name/face, etc: So it came as a shock and a disappointment to turn on the TV for the last two episodes of my show, and see that someone had taken footage that me and my…

  • Anthony Bourdain on the best and worst of No Reservations

    This Monday marks the 140th and final episode of No Reservations to air on Travel Channel. On the one hand, I’m sad to see what is easily one of my most favorite shows go off the air, but on the other I realize that after doing something for so long it is good to shake…

  • WordPress for bands

    WordPress.com recently published a new page dedicated to showcasing how bands and musicians can use the service to its full potential. I’ve always been surprised that WordPress.com didn’taggressivelygo after moretargetedverticals (besides VIP publishers) like music, movies, and so on. MySpace, Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter all make boatloads of cash off of these verticals and WordPress.com…

  • Angry Birds Star Wars – November 8th

    This time, the pigs aren’t the Rebels.

  • Brandice on the iPhone 5

    You’ll have to forgive me for wanting to quote Brandice’s entire post about the iPhone 5 since I totally agree with everything she says but I’ll do my best to take out a few key snippets: I read comments online about how it’s so light it almost feels too insubstantial or breakable. I think it…

  • It’s OK. Some of us just look young.

    David Karp, founder of the one of the most popular services of all time, Tumblr: Takes thirty employees out to dinner. Gets carded while ordering a beer. Happens to me all the time David. All the time. And I’ll be 32 in a few short weeks.

  • Bourdain on creative control

    Anthony Bourdain, remarking on the last season of my favorite travel show: Seven new episodes of NO RESERVATIONS left—interspersed, I’m afraid, by three (count them, THREE) shows made up of “repurposed” material—aka clip shows. Seven shows seemed like enough to me. Especially since knowing they were to be our last, we put our heart and soul…

  • Evening Edition

    Jim Ray on why they made Evening Edition: Right now, there’s more “news” than ever before, but it comes in dribs and drabs disguised as news-like updates fed through the same channels as your friends’ baby photos and fart jokes. Evening Edition is a refreshing break away from the realtime stream of terrible news coverage…

  • Bits about being or feeling finished

    I think everyone who is addicted to their work runs into this problem of constantly feeling like there is more to do. And let’s face it, all of us that have been working with computers since about the time we learned to ride a bike are addicted to our work. We love it. However, by…

  • Why I like No Reservations

    Anthony Bourdain on the different types of people that like his show No Reservations: Generally speaking, there are two distinct audiences for this show: people who like to look at images of food and are interested in where it comes from and how it got to the plate—and people who like to travel—or like the idea…

  • 500px Terms of Service

    Remember Tumblr’s fairly easy to understand TOS? 500px has a similarly great TOS. /via AOL TechCrunch.

  • How do blogs need to evolve?

    This is a subject that is near and dear to me. It is a bit clich to say this but I’ve been blogging since before it was a common verb. I’ve watched, very closely, as the blogging world has evolved over the last decade and even took some small part in that evolution. It wasn’t…

  • Please leave your name after the post. Beep.

    I run into this problem every single day. Every. Single. Day. Brent Simmons simply reminded me that I need to yell a little more about it. He asks: "Take a look at your weblog. How easy is it to find your name?" You’d be very surprised how hard it is to find someone’s name in…

  • Lookwork

    [Lookwork](http://lookwork.com/) is a very interesting take on a RSS reader. It is a little too Tumblr-esque for me. By that I mean that it is a very passive way to browse a ton of entries without ever slowing down and viewing each photo or post by itself for any length of time. It is one…

  • Piano Across America

    [Dotan Negrin](http://pianoacrossamerica.com/) is traveling across the United States playing an upright piano he drags along with him in his truck. He’s living off donations given to him while he plays in some really cool locations. I’ve been enamored with his posts for months and I’m finally getting around to sharing it. I hope that when…

  • The blog format is ready for disruption

    The recent chatter about pagination on blog home pages has reminded me of the days when blogging was just getting underway. Back then there were a few pioneers that were testing the waters, experimenting with the designs and layouts of their sites, constantly trying to find the right set of features that a blog needed.…

  • BMX FMX at 1000fps

    [viddler id-300fcba8 h-213 w-501] An excellent super-slow-motion video by Dylan Pfohl. A pretty good example of what can be done with a Canon T2i too.

  • \”You don’t need to be on a diet\”

    I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you…

  • \”You don’t need to be on a diet\”

    I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you…

  • \”You don’t need to be on a diet\”

    I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you…

  • \”You don’t need to be on a diet\”

    I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you…

  • \”You don’t need to be on a diet\”

    I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you…

  • \”You don’t need to be on a diet\”

    I can not even begin to count how many times someone has said to me "You don’t need to be on a diet." Oh, really? Because professional doctors say that I’m a few pounds away from obesity so I think I need to be. Like Brandice recently wrote, everyone seems to know better, but you…