Bloglines have announced a beta of their new interface, just after I jumped ship to Google Reader. The new interface looks snazzier than the old one and they’ve adopted some of the conventions of Google Reader. Clicking on a subscription doesn’t mark all items as read for example. The same […]
blogging , Web
How I know who's talking about me
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while but Scott Adam’s post about using Google Alerts to find people talking about Dilbert prompted me to put fingers to keys this afternoon. When someone anywhere in the world mentions my name in a blog post or even a comment, […]
blogging , Web
Find new stuff with the image wall
While everyone seems to be running to the new kid on the block, Google Reader, I stuck with Bloglines because I prefer the old-style interface and the sorting options over the new fangled web 2.0ish Google upstart. At the same time, I’ve lusted after some of the new features of […]
Automattic , Web , WordPress
Is Flickr under attack by spam?
Has anyone else noticed an increase of spam comments on Flickr lately? I noticed my first spam comment there only last week, complained about it, and the comment and user were both deleted shortly afterwards. I thought nothing more of it. This morning I got an unwelcome shock when I […]
blogging , Web
Nothing left to read
My aggregator is empty. Things are quiet on the Internet and I’ve finally clicked and scanned through every one of the 230+ blogs in my Bloglines account. But no, that’s not true. I opened The Dilbert Blog in a new tab for further reading because Scott Adams always seems to […]