Feedmarker Blog

Found a nice Wordpress plugin today that lets you edit posts inline using AJAX (the same way you can edit feeds/marks in Feedmarker). It’s very easy to install, just requires a tiny modification to the index.php template, and it degrades nicely on browsers that don’t have XMLHttpRequest implemented.Only one complaint, the cancel button seems to [...]

Here is some Javascript hackery some people might find useful. It’s just a hack off of Kryogenix’s Sorttable code, which is much prettier and smarter than mine.

The Kyrogenix script lets you sort HTML tables by columns. This script lets you sort lists (unordered or ordered) by either the list item value or by an attribute [...]

Um, wow? I mean, I’d been working on a Feedmarker prototype that could run at 3 km/hr for a while now, but this just puts me to shame.

Seriously, though, check out Honda’s site on their humanoid robot, ASIMO. Besides being about an utterly cool and somehow endearing 114 lbs of metal, the site is full [...]

ZoomInfo is very cool – just go there and do a search on yourself (or someone you know). I was amazed at how good the results were when I searched for my name. ZoomInfo didn’‘t just return every web document that included my name (as Google would have). It just gave me three hits, revealing [...]

Seb’s Open Research has great notes on the social classification session from the IA Summit (www.iasummit.org). To sum it up:
Lou Rosenfeld: “Folksonomies … don’t support searching and other types of browsing nearly as well as tags from controlled vocabularies”Clay Shirky: “Building, maintaining, and enforcing a controlled volcabulary is horrendously expensive.”Liz Lawley: “It’s just as problematic [...]

Every bit as action-packed as the 1995 thriller, the U.S. Memory Championship gives competitors a chance to put on their best Keanu grimace while trying to memorize a deck of cards in under a minute.

When I was in high school I found a book at a thrift store on speed-memorizing techniques, and I used to [...]

I’ve been wondering wether Feedmarker’s behavior of making new feeds/marks private by default might need some re-examination. I’m worried that some people are just leaving stuff as private because they don’t realize other users can’t see it. But I really think the shared resources aspect is the most important part of a tool like Feedmarker, [...]

...via an e-mail from my dad: “Do Not Park Near The Water”.

Another review of Feedmarker with some interesting suggetions. This one’s in Spanish, so I’ll do my best to summarize:
The author, Rookie, argues that Feedmarker is missing two big features: search and language settings.

I agree on both counts. With all the metadata (tags, rankings, descriptions) that people are entering about their feeds and bookmarks, we’re building [...]

Stark & Stark’s Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog is a good case study for lawyers interested in using blogging to promote their practice. Here’s an interview with the Stark & Stark’s director of business development on why they started the blog and how it has helped develop the firm’s credibility and reputation.