I am completely uninterested in sites like digg.com. It seems like they’ve managed to create the intellectual heft of slashdot without a centralized set of editors.
One digg-linked author took the matter into his own hands and blocked access from Digg. The funny part being that, predictably, digg users flooded the comments on his [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Digging a hole
December 30, 2006 – 8:13 pm
Accountability? What’s that?
December 29, 2006 – 2:21 pm
Look for a lot more of these kinds of “looks back” as we prepare to re-re-redeploy more soldiers for no good reason.
Happy Holidays, everybody.
The UnSuggester
December 8, 2006 – 3:24 pm
Brad DeLong links to LibraryThing’s UnSuggester. Put a book you liked, and it’ll tell you what books you probably want to avoid.
Sample search: If you liked Winning, by Jack Welch, you’ll probably hate Watership Down, The Princess Bride, stuff by Neil Gaiman and Margaret Atwood…
I think I have a new reading list from this.
Web-based Feed Readers
December 6, 2006 – 9:14 am
To be able to tote subscription/read status between machines and OSes, I’ve switched (mostly) from using a desktop feed aggregator to using the web-based ones. So far, I haven’t found one I’m really happy with.
Bloglines:
The good: single-key navigation too all unread posts. Nice Presentation.
The bad: keeps re-showing already read posts. A lot. [...]
