Technology

  • New TypePad Feature: “Feature This Post”

    So today I logged in to TypePad and saw a new feature that doesn’t seem to be publicized yet: "Feature This Post". It gives you the ability to promote a post to the top of your weblog regardless of publish date. This is a really useful feature for lots of my clients who want to…

  • New Netscape Beta is Live

    This is good. The new Netscape.com, which is now in beta, is a Digg clone + human editors. See NYT story here for further explanation. Basically this takes the good stuff from Yahoo! News (actual humans deciding what stories run, not mute algorithms Google News-style) minus the rancor of digg (at least until the nasty-community…

  • My Subscriptions > Second City Cop

    In my second installment of My Subscriptions, what rose to the top of my Bloglines account tonight. Here’s a general look at what this is from my first post: So what I’m going to do is go through day by day, look at the first entry in my list (sorted by most recently updated), and…

  • My Subscriptions > Nial Kennedy’s Weblog

    So I thought I’d try something new. I’ve never done the typical blogging thing– "I saw this thing, here’s a link, here’s what I think about". The other thing is that I currently have SubscriptionBloat in my Bloglines account with 125 feeds. I care about maybe 1/2 of them. So what I’m going to do…

  • Text Wrangler for PDF Text Cleanup

    I manage the website for my parish, which means that I get a PDF of the weekly bulletin on Wednesday, the day that it also goes to the printer, JS Paluch. Going from PDF to posts is pretty easy, except for one thing: the carriage returns. Carriage returns are necessary in PDFs (and/or the native…