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This scrapple thing is catching on. Fellow Coalworker Joe Casabona just published his first edition of scrapple. I liked his last bit: I’ve been using Unmark for bookmarks lately. You should give it a try. I really dig it. Thanks for that Joe. I hope to see more bloggers pick up the scrapple baton. It…

Uber, today: Good news! Uber is launching in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area at 5:00pm today! For an area that seems to be the last to get anything new this is a welcome change. And the company founder’s antics aside, this will end up being a good thing for the area.

On the heels of Paperholm comes BRUTAL LONDON by Zupa Grafika.

The last two scrapples were on Tuesday; you can find them here and here. I’m finally getting the hang of Evernote. The key, for me at least, is managing multiple notebooks. It’d be nice if I could password protect a notebook. A way to have a notebook be a bit extra secure. Holding the original…

My boy Stammy wrote a really nice, in-depth blog post on how he and his team at Twitter designed the new Twitter Video feature. Absolutely a must-read: It irks me when designers talk about making specs and handing them over to engineering. The process of “making specs“ implies that there is no conversation with your…

Om Malik did a short email interview with Charles Young of Paperholm; which I linked to just a day or so ago.

Marco Arment had a rough day. He published a thoughtful, yet quick, post about Apple’s software quality. Most of us that follow and use Apple products nodded our heads in agreement as we read his post and moved onto the next one in our feed readers. Everyone who knows anything about Apple software knows that…

Fred Wilson uses 2014 as a lens to see not only what happened but what is happening: the “sharing economy” was outed as the “rental economy.” nobody is sharing anything. people are making money, plain and simple. technology has made renting things (even in real time) as simple as it made buying things a decade…

In a world where every new e-mail client must support Gmail or die, this is a breath of fresh air. JMAP, from FastMail, is an API that improves upon IMAP. It is open. And free. JMAP does everything. Instead of separate protocols with different syntax for sending email than for receiving it (and separate protocols…

See Scrapple 1. I’m begrudgingly using Evernote. It is working. But I wish the sync capabilities were equal to Simplenote’s. Tip: Close your inbox. Only open it when you’re reading and/or writing email. Do not leave it open in between. I would like to have a Russian dash cam installed in my car. My drive…

Over on the Barley blog we wrote: today we’re very excited to let you know that a brand-new media uploading and management experience is now available This was a lot of fun to work on. But it is even more fun to use. It will make my life a hundred times easier curating The Watercolor…

It has been 14 days since I said I’d be committing for 30 weekdays straight. I’ve committed code 12 out of those 14 days. (This weekend Eliza and I painted our living room so you’ll have to forgive me for not pulling out my computer.) What have I accomplished? What have I learned? These last…

Simon (simurai): Flick Scrolling in short: An idea of a new gesture that extends scrolling content on a touch-screen. Instead of letting momentum stop the scrolling, you can decide exactly where it should stop. Pretty cool. I’d really like this on my iPad.

There are a lot of choices for pocket notebooks so which pocket notebook is the best value? /toby on blogspot: SOooo, that then leads us to… WHICH ONE do I buy? If you write often enough, you start to fill them up, and you have to buy more of them. So which one shakes out…

This is just me shooting from the hip here, but follow me through the last few days of Instagram news to see if, perhaps, they might have done all of this on purpose. On December 10th Instagram announces they hit 300M accounts and also said this: We’ve been deactivating spammy accounts from Instagram on an…

Inspired by local blogger and reporter Andy Palumbo’s scrapple posts — I’ve decided to try my hand at it. Today’s scrapple: There are about 3 people in the entire world that know exactly what they are doing and we’re all just copying off of them. Best thing I‘ve found in the last few weeks. http://php-osx.liip.ch…

Similar to the 30 weekday blog challenge… I’m going to challenge myself, and you dear reader, to 30 weekdays of committing code to one of your projects. Any project. The projects I’m challenging myself to commit to, for 30 weekdays straight, are Barley CMS, Barley for WordPress, or Unmark. What does this mean? I will…

This was fun to work on. Since I did 30 weekdays of blogging I think now I’ll aim for 30 weekdays of committing code to Barley CMS.

Kevin Roose for New York Magazine: According to Edison Research, 39 million people listened to a podcast in the last month, the highest number on record. See.

Fred Wilson: As is often the case, a simple little thing turns out to be the big thing. That little thing is that almost every car that has been sold in the past five years has had bluetooth connectivity to the car audio system. These days your phone is connected wirelessly to your car the…

Speaking of packaging albums in all-new and innovative ways… P. Morris releases an album that you can only listen to with someone else who also has their webcam on. Think Chatroulette. Brilliant. /via Andy Baio.

I should have tagged Bijan in my list of podcasts but he posted a few suggestions anyway. His are both photography related: I’m really enjoying Marco’s latest creation, Overcast and as a result I’m listening to more podcasts these days. I too am enjoying Overcast.

Ken Ziegler: As copywriters, we have a duty to our profession to remind our peers that there is no such person as a wordsmith in practically any office where copywriters operate with self-respect, dignity, and the freedom to express themselves in words without fear of being slandered by the most terrible of all imaginable portmanteaus.…

Well, this is cool. Ello has raised some capital and in doing so they’ve filed as a “Public Benefit Corp.” and made everyone involved sign a mission statement. Jonathan Shieber for Aol/Techcrunch: The company filed in Delaware as a Public Benefit Corp., which Ello says makes it legally impossible under US law for investors to require…

Google, yesterday: Today, we’re introducing something new. It’s called Inbox. Years in the making, Inbox is by the same people who brought you Gmail, but it’s not Gmail: it’s a completely different type of inbox, designed to focus on what really matters. That “years in the making” part screams “we thought of this before Mailbox but didn’t…

Speaking of John Gruber, he just published his review of the iPad Air 2 — a review I’ve been patiently waiting for. I spent a lot of time in this review comparing the new Air 2 to the iPad 3/4. I think that’s fair, because normal people aren’t supposed to even consider replacing their iPads…

I love that Toni Schneider is blogging regularly. In a recent post he tries to find the balance of having an open, collaborative office space and one that allows for private time to execute. Ideally, an office would offer both. Open spaces for collaboration/inspiration and private spaces for taking that inspiration and turning into action.…

Dave Winer recorded a short podcast in response to Marco’s argument about whether or not we should trust Twitter. He says: Apple screwed their developers too. It happened more than once. Good to listen to the other side of this. We’ll see how it plays out over time.

Marco says no way. Even though the WSJ is reporting that Twitter is going to try to appeal to developers this week at a conference… he writes: Twitter will never, and should never, have any credibility with developers again. Enjoy it while it lasts, but be ready for it to disappear at any moment. I’m…

Last night I was reading Empire Magazine’s awesome piece with the cast of The West Wing (my favorite TV show of all time). I caught this nugget from Bradley Whitford: Early on in my career I got a part in Revenge Of The Nerds II: Nerds In Paradise. If I hadn‘t done that I wouldn‘t…

I’ve recently pushed passed 38,000 tweets and I’m not really sure how I feel about it. To continue to get the most value from Twitter over the years I’ve tried to change the way I use it as often as I felt as though I needed to. I’ve followed hundreds and thousands of accounts at…

Speaking of Matt Mullenweg (I’m catching up on his blog)… he has a great suggestion for how companies that benefit from WordPress can contribute to its longevity. He suggests: I think a good rule of thumb that will scale with the community as it continues to grow is that organizations that want to grow the…

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,…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.

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 http://cdevroe.com/feed To subscribe to my RSS feed you need an RSS reader. There a tons of these for every…

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…

Kyle and I spent the weekend setting up the first coworking space in Scranton, PA — Coalwork. We’ve been working on this for over a year. Not just us two but other members of the coworking community such as Nick Semon, Bruno Galvao, Michael O’Boyle, and Joe Casabona. I’m very glad to finally be seeing all…

Update from yesterday. She was surprised. 😉 We’re in! Coalwork, the coworking group, podcast, blog, and community that Kyle and I founded over a year ago finally has a place to call home in downtown Scranton. This is Scranton’s first official coworking spot. I am totally stoked. Not only to see this finally happening but…