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Category Archives: Hot Tech

LISNews10K: Join the Fun!

http://www.lisnews.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/05/2032241 LISNews is only 160 entries away from reaching the 10,000-entry mark. To celebrate, they are requesting images or photos (why not ASCII art, folks?) that pay homage to “10,000.” “Get out [your] digital cameras, crayons, colored pencils, Photoshop or MS Paint and send us something that shows us how happy you are that we […]

Help the Poor Struggler: Lightweight RSS Posting?

http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001543.shtml See Dan Gillmor’s request, as he experiments with “headline news” via a Handspring Treo 600: “My blogging software doesn’t give me an easy way to make a quick posting into just those two fields [title and entry], with an extremely low-bandwidth page that’s easily readable on the handheld.” He also wants a quick way […]

Getting Started with RSS: The Fifteen-Minute Tutorial

By popular demand, this is a short introduction to RSS, a tool for tracking headlines and new content on Web sites. This tutorial uses Bloglines, a free, Web-based RSS aggregator (reader). RSS is a bit baffling at first. Once you step in, though, you’ll have an immediate “ah hah.” These directions were written to get […]

MT Plugin Manager

Yesterday I spent a good chunk of time horsing around with the new MT Plugin Manager, which offers vastly simplified installation and one-stop management for a slew of plugins available for Movable Type. Bookmark to:

Amazon’s Search Inside the Book

This is sort of a con-grunt from Internet Librarian 2003, but not specific to any one program. I heard repeated reference from presenters and keynoters to the significance of Amazon’s new “Search Inside the Book” feature, confirming my own gut reaction that this is big, really big, in ways we don’t yet understand or appreciate. […]