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Muxtape

Muxtapes are all the rage on twitter right now, so I thought I’d make one, too. Muxtape brings the old art of making a mixtape onto the web in an interface that is so simple it might seem confusing at first. You can get yours at muxtape.com.

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Twitter in Plain English

You’ve seen me mention twitter on this blog, or you’ve noticed twitter updates in my sidebar. Still wondering what it is? Lee LeFever can explain. This is actually only part of what’s cool about flickr. @lenedgerly points out that the video “misses power of links- Twitter as news & idea source.” You might have to [...]

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Donate $10 by 3:30 PM to Earn $50k for Kids in Cambodia

This is from Beth Kanter: Here’s the deal. We need to be in the top four charities that get the most unique donors in order to win the $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. Right now we’re number 5, only trailing by 28 donors. Essentially, I am asking YOU for $10 (USD) to help children in [...]

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Check Out Beth’s Blog

Yesterday, I mentioned on Twitter that I gave a presentation at work about using an internal blog for sharing news and announcements. Before I knew it, non-profit tech consultant Beth Kanter was interviewing me via IM about the presentation and the launch of the internal blog. I gave Beth my slides from my presentation and [...]

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Privacy Matters

[This post is the the third in a series (1, 2).] Like Marshall Kirkpatrick, I want it all. I want my data to be free, I want to be in control of it and I want to have control over my privacy as well. Is that too much to ask? The watchdog group Privacy International [...]

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Out with the New and in with the Old

My new tumblelog has arrived at http://minorjive.net (feed). A while ago I decided to set up another WordPress blog as a tumblelog, to keep clippings of web content that I come across on the web. I didn’t like the limited functionality of the popular hosted Tumblr service, so I thought it would be better to [...]

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Video Blogging

I didn’t know much about video blogging except for zefrank’s The Show, so I found this overview of the history by Steve Garfield quite interesting. It’s also interesting, if you’ve been wondering what seesmic is all about (it seems to be all the rage on twitter). Some may have noticed that I’ve been bitten by [...]

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Hungry Blues Gets a Tumblelog

http://hungryblues.net/tumblin (feed) What’s a tumblelog? People often cite kottke’s early definition (early as in 2005), in which he says: A tumblelog is a quick and dirty stream of consciousness … with minimal commentary, little cross-blog chatter, the barest whiff of a finished published work, almost pure editing … really just a way to quickly publish [...]

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