Category: Blog Bits

Frozen Header

My new header file was snapped in our back yard during the winter storm that passed our way on the weekend of December 6-8. It is always amazing to wake up to a white...

Future of blogging

Specifically this blog. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to determine what I wanted to do with this blog. When I first started this (as a LiveJournal blog), the purpose of the...

danah visits oz

For those aussie friends of mine who occasionally visit. danah boyd, a phenomenal researcher on youth and their relationship with social networks (among other things), is visiting the land downunder. She will be speaking...

my Bookshelf

Thanks to Paul English for the heads up about Shelfari, a online tool to assist in creating a virtual copy of your bookshelf. You can visit my Shelfari bookshelf here.

Remote Blog Post

Lifehacker referenced a tool the other day that was ‘going to make blog posting easier,’ so I had to give it a try. I did. I can see how this might be useful for...

Lifehacker Discoveries

For those of you who do research, or write papers, you will understand the difficulty with making the appropriate citations (as required by your professor). Over at Lifehacker, they mentioned this tool called Ottobib....

Sharing LifeHacker (Geek to Live)

Ian passed on a link last night to me for a new blog/site that he has been reading called LifeHacker. As I was reading this today, I discovered two very cool posts that I...

Can you Digg this?

I was reading digg.com today and found a couple of cool links which I thought I would share. MySpace (News Corp). What News Corp doesn’t want you to know about MySpace: Condensed edition. An...

Remembering Col. Canfield D. Boone

A few weeks back I signed up for Project 2,996. 2,996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11. On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggers will join together for a tribute to the...

Speed

I was catching up on blogs today, and found this very cool speed test for the Internets (well the one I’m currently using). Thanks to Chad Fox for the link. That is 6,111 kb/s...