More About Links
I haven’t posted too many links the last couple days. I have a bunch of guitar links to post – like I said before, my links come in waves 
, but I’m not sure I want to post them all. Some of them generate popups. I have nothing against the responsible use of popups, mind you. Some sites rely on them for revenue. I used them myself on the first two web projects I created (here and here – Both are under different management now.), but I don’t like the way some publishers use them.Anyway, I did a search Read more
All we need is . . .
The Entrepreneurial Mind: Washington is Paying Attention to Entrepreneurship
All real entrepreneurs need to create businesses and jobs (as we know from almost all of the research on this topic) is less government involvement and a fairer and simpler tax system.
Less government, fair taxes – or no taxes This is really what everyone needs, right?
Link Managers
I’ve been using Furl and del.icio.us for some time now. I use them in combination much like recommended by Amy Gahran and Saurier Duval. I used de.lirio.us instead of del.icio.us at first, but have moved to del.icio.us. It’s been more reliable and I like the to be able to grab my links via the api. I post them to my link blog using a daily cron job.
About a month ago, I ran into this post by Michael Wexler 4/28/2004 (who hates tags) comparing some other services. I decided to search for more info and see if I had missed a better site. I found a good list by Clay Shirky, and a great set of reviews by Kossatsch (version 2, version 3, and pdf chart). I’ve played with most of these sites over the last month and I’ve decided to stick with the system I’ve been using.
I’ve had fun though, and did some interesting reading about tags, tag literacy, folksonomies and controlled vocabularies.
Quixtar Links
I mentioned earlier that I have been working on my linkblog. Here is a quick update on the goings on.First, I am grabbing my links from del.icio.us and posting them into a database for my WordPress powered linkblog. As I play with this, you may see links that don’t make sense, links that disappear and re-appear, etc. If you subscribe via RSS, you may see an ocassional refresh. I apologize for this. I will get it the way I want it soon.Second, my links come in topical waves. It just so happens that I pointed out my new linkblog to the world and then I started on a project that caused my linkblog to look like the ravings on an mlm junkie. I’m not. A wave more interesting to you may be coming soon.Thanks for listening.
More about TiVO
I know I’ve raved about TiVO before but I thought I would take this opportunity to review it after some real use.We’ve had ours for about 14 months now and we all love it. It cannot be overstated how different TV viewing is now. We don’t know what we’d do without it. Read more
I am a statistic
I just took this little survey. I’ll be interested to see the results compiled.
Google Maps
Tell me this is not cool!The night it was announced my son and I began brainstorming what we should try. We came up with about two dozen ideas and decided I should try about 8 of them.Here are two maps I threw together as a learning experience. They are not finished yet, but it shouldn’t take much moreUPDATE: I forgot to post the links to the maps. This one actually works. It may not work well, but you can actually do searches. I have to click on one of the panel items to make the map show, but I am looking into that. This one is a mock up of the next one I’d like to finish. It doesn’t work yet. I plan to pull all the data and store in on my server.
My Link Blog
A while back I toyed with de.lirio.us for my link blog. I pulled the feed and transformed it into html. I used the html from my blog so it would have the same look. I was becoming less satisfied with de.lirio.us and started itching to use del.icio.us instead. I thought I could pull the feed and post each item to a real wordpress blog by dropping the data into the database. My solution is not pretty, but it works. I run a cron job daily to do the ‘pull and post.’I like it. I’ve poste the code in case you’re interested. Read more
I’m Back
Well, it’s been a while since my last post. I was planning on posting about some of my previous work, and I got distracted fooling with my link blog. Then I wanted to post all about that and Google announced its API for the maps. How cool is this?!!So, I have been busy (obsessed) with doin’ the Google maps thing. Loads of fun!Some quick updates:
- Mom is all moved in to her new place. Billy did get a chance to visit Famous Daves (Terri and Becky did too) Billy was accepted to the People to People program. Becky graduated from Kindergarten Billy graduated from 6th grade. He won several academic awards and the PTF award.
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