Archive for October, 2005
Top 20 IT mistakes: Fark additions
A couple of my colleagues back at InfoWorld (including IT Director Kevin Railsback) IM’ed me today to say that a story I wrote about a year ago is featured today on Fark.com and is currently driving a ton of traffic to InfoWorld.com. The story is “Top 20 IT Mistakes,” and some are pretty general [...]
After the ping: how long it takes for blog search engines to find you
I’m launching a new blog with a specific focus very soon (more on that in a day or two). Since you only launch a new blog once, I decided to check my logs to see how long it took for various blog-specific search engines to find me after a ping to Ping-o-matic (and there’s [...]
The Salon redesign
When I walked over to the Argent Hotel today to peek in at Web 2.0, I couldn’t help but feel a bit nostalgic when I passed the old Salon.com offices at 706 Mission Street, right next door to the Argent. It was in that building where we migrated Salon to Linux and built our [...]
Welcome, Upcoming.org!
The news is out: Upcoming.org is joining us at Yahoo! Well, um. . . yahoo! More from the Upcoming.org guys: Andy, Gordon, and Leonard.
When I joined, I could have easily written what Andy wrote in this post:
I’ve always had a warm and fuzzy feeling about Yahoo. It’s [...]
Web 2.0 and Punk Rock
Warning Bloglines subscribers: some feed changes
Now that I’ve written about the wrong way to work with your feeds if you use FeedBurner and have Bloglines subscribers, I decided to make another go at doing it right today.
First, this only affects about 25 subscribers — those who are subscribed to my “orphan” (i.e. non-FeedBurner) feeds in Bloglines. The [...]