Monthly Archives:

Archive for April 2008

Apr30 10:46

A Note on Form and Content

I’ve used Firebug for a long time, but I
never really grasped how powerful it can be, before today. I’ve
redesigned the blog to be more compliant with new features in Wordpress
(Widgets and the lik

e). Rather than role my own theme, as I’m lazy, I’m
using a theme called Barthelme. As you
can see, though, looking at that screenshot, this blog doesn’t look much
like the original. I wasn’t happy with Barthelme’s kind of blah colors
(and I started hating that left-aligned sidebar in a moment of web
design iconoclasm), so I thought I’d make “some minor tweaks” to the
style sheet.

Continue Reading »

Apr29 21:49

Twitter (Crises in Web2.0)

Tagged:
twitter web2.0

No Comments

In addition to restarting this blog, I’ve also started using Twitter again. As others have reported Twitter has a really high turnover when it comes to reporting the news. Presumably, if you are following the right people on Twitter, you could know everything as soon as it happens. That’s all well and good,
but as I restart a lot of my own web presence again, I’m wondering how hard it must be to filter through this information.

I follow around 12 twitter feeds. Most of them are my friends, but I also get the BBC news, BoingBoing, and ESPN News. I have my Twitter account piped to my Jabber account, which means I get “tweets” as they happen. Consequently, I am now afraid of “missing something” if I’m away from the computer for more than a few minutes. The same thing happens with my Google Reader account: I find myself a prisoner of my information.