Off to a weird start
Monday, January 1st, 2007
Update: Found a new reason for happy: I found the mp3 of the cover of Paul Simon’s Graceland by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. It’s superb, one of the best “make it your own”-type covers I know.
Archive for the 'Internet' category
Blue Ridge Country and the ask/receive gambit
Monday, November 27th, 2006
Heck, it was only two months ago when I wrote about how I wished Blue Ridge Country 98.1 FM had live streaming of their stuff. And now they do. Sweet. This is particularly handy now that I’m not living in North Carolina. I recommend tuning in Friday nights between 6 and 10 p.m., East Coast [...]
Pulling the trigger
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Tonight I launched Joe Think, my blog about how local journalism can use the internet to be awesome and relevant. It’s something I meant to do a while ago, but ya’ know, stuff comes up. Stuff is still coming up, sure. But I needed a better home for my work-related rants and thoughts and ideas [...]
Being a librarian can be fun: Google’s Image Labeler
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Found this last weekend: it’s a game that matches you up with a partner and shows one image at a time. Each of you guess labels for that image, and when both of you guess the same label you move on to the next image. Each image you both guess earns you 100 points, which [...]
No internet at home can be a beautiful thing
Monday, August 28th, 2006
I’ve lived without computer and internet at home for two weeks. I fixed the computer today, so it’s back and stuff, but the last two weeks were awesome. I’m got so much stuff done. I did the cleaning and organizing I should have done years ago, I read a lot more, I took a walk, [...]
Awesome ways to deliver information
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
I caught up on the last four months of posts from Information Aesthetics, this blog about “data visualization and visual culture.” Here are the highlights (link to the site followed by IA’s description and link to the IA blog post):
DrugQuilt: A dynamic data visualization of the brand name & generic drugs the US Food & [...]
The spammers found Furl
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
It’s unfortunate. I subscribed to Furl’s most-popular feed for about a year, it was a good index of what’s good on the web. In the last week the noise on that feed has gone up, with links to Myrtle beach real estate and Acne meds.
Furl could block this stuff with a combination of IP blacklisting, [...]
Notify Authors WordPress plugin for WordPress 2.0
Friday, June 9th, 2006
This was a plugin Adam Howell showed me, it’s useful for group blogs. However, it only worked with WordPress 1.5. Tonight at work I hacked the PHP and got it working on WordPress 2.0.3, you can see the new code here, or below:
function notify_users($post_ID) {
global $wpdb;
$users = $wpdb->get_results( “SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->users, $wpdb->usermeta WHERE $wpdb->usermeta.user_id [...]
