Dan Gillmore is reporting that Google is buying the small company behind Blogger, Pyra Labs. I have been wondering for some time where Google was at with the regard to the weblog pheonmena and, well, this is clearly a direction. I am having difficulty seeing Google moving from a “finding stuff on the web” strategy… more
I get really annoying when I find a new toy. I tell every person I know about it, I construct my day around it, and every answer to every question passes through the new toy neuron in my head. This means if you ask me, “Hey Rands, what’s 7 + 3?” I first think, “How… more
Just found this in the my referral logs — http://organica.us/. Seems to be of the same nature as daypop, blogdex where the goal is to track buzz.
Since everyone was worried about their jobs in 2002, not a huge amount of attention has been paid to technology this year. This doesn’t excuse software developers from the following list of products/technologies I still CAN’T BELIEVE haven’t been done well. In the vein of Holy Shit Lists, this list could be considered a brief… more
A reader pointed out that our two RSS feeds were slightly stale, so we just fixed that in our “first project of the Xmas break”. RSS inclusion in Rands In Repose is merely a by-product of using Movabletype… if I was maintain the site by hand (HURRRRRRRR), I probably wouldn’t have the RSS feeds because… more
Movable Type 2.5.1 landed. There are two features which landed as part of 2.5 and 2.5.1 that have me noodling site redesigns in the back of my head. First, they’ve integrated search into the core application – in the past, this was done with the, admittedly pretty cool, Atomz service. The other feature is the… more
It seems that with every week, someone releases a browser based on Mozilla. This is good. Mozilla continues to cause a discernable buzz.
Floid writes: “CRTs will be truly obsolete in 5 years. Hallelujah.” I’ve got recent strong evidence to back this up. I recently replaced my clunky 17″ Apple CRT monitor with a 17″ flat panel screen. This was my first experience with real time usage of a flat panel monitor and the experience has been exquisite.… more
There are four types of people.
Ray Ozzie of Lotus Notes and Groove fame has a weblog.