If you've ever attending a presentation on a software development technical topic, the law of Developers in the Audience always states that these 2 events will happen:  1.  When the presenter makes a mistake (even a little one), there will be a jeer, snicker, giggle, or some sort of snarky behavior by someone in the audience.  It someone will be ready to pounce at a glitch or mistake and expose the presenter as a fraud. 2.  Someone will always ask for the font siz... [More]

I was all fired up to try out Wikia after reading it on Matt Cutt's blog today.  When I visited the site, bombs away: UPDATE:  Looks like Wikia's service is up and down.  Not surprising for a brand new product getting a LOT of attention.  

It's hard to scratch that constant itch for quality new fiction books.  The books I prefer are mostly of the science fiction, fantasy or mystery/thriller variety.  The trouble is, the market is so flooded with lousy writing, it becomes difficult to findthe gems buried within the muck.  Here's a list of the methods that have worked for me, in order of most helpful to least. Find what your favorite bloggers read? Don't rely on a scifi/fantasy blog/web... [More]

As pointed out in this humorous article by Danny Sullivan, a Wikipedia entry for "Knol" is the sixth result in a Google search.  Gwikirank of 6. Actually at this time of writing, looks like it's more like 7.

I challenge you to do a search on Google and find a page without Wikipedia as one of the top 10 results.  OK, it's not that hard, but it is getting more difficult.  After reading about Knol, and perusing a few other blog posts about it, I decided to try some random searches on the big G and found had a first page result with Wikipedia. Almost all pages now have what I call a GWikiRank. A few examples.  To quote Riley from National Treasure: Snorkel: Rank ... [More]

Remember, this is when the Ravens still had a lead.  

Well, the cold reality is that I haven't used it once.  Yep, not one single time did I need to make my Google Reader client go offline.  Wow, I was really off base when I wrote about how cool it would be in Web Apps Gone Wild.  In that post, I got into a little discussion with Lazy Coder about how useful going offline is.  Well, I was TOTALLY wrong and he nailed it when he said it's not as useful as it seems. The truth is, I have not found myself in many s... [More]

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I spend a lot of time reading blogs every day.  My feed reader says I subscribe to 40 feeds (seems a bit low, seems like I have a lot more), but I'd say I pay real close attention to about 5 of them.  Those 5 keep me checking my reader multiple times a day, just to see if I have any new gems from them.  I find myself checking the rest of the feeds only in a cursory style, looking only at the titles and if they don't pop out at me, I don't bother reading it.  The... [More]