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Here’s a feed I’ve been looking forward to for a long time: Inc.com RSS 2.0 Feed [via Scripting.com]

Quite interesting for some reason: The Top 10 Most Fascinating Urinals

For the record, I’d recommend Mailsmith also: TidBITS: True Confessions of a Mailsmith Switcher Conclusions — Despite such nitpicking, this version of Mailsmith puts the program in a whole new category. Mailsmith 1.5 was usable but flawed; it had a coterie of devoted followers, but they seemed mostly to be fanatics. Mailsmith 2.0, on the [...]

I read an article today about Amazon’s new RSS feeds, and quickly moved to investigate the PR. I added a bunch of feeds to NetNewsWire. I’m thinking this could be dangerous (feel free to grab these feeds for your own use): Books: Computers & Internet Science Fiction and Fantasy Science Fiction Fantasy DVDs: Science Fiction [...]

Good ol’ Cringley brings us the “Son of Napster”. Interesting concept, even if it’s flawed. I like the idea of a publicly owned company that ‘owns’ the media that people consume, but this would effectively put musicians out of a job, and while it would hurt the record industry, it would also hurt the artists [...]

From MacMinute: Sparkpod, a Weblog (blog) hosting company, has announced the availability of free trial accounts for its service. Sparkpod was designed using 100% Macintosh-based solutions — programmed using WebObjects, designed using Macs, and hosted on Xserves — although PC users may also use it. The service offers the ability to post messages in the [...]

Jeff Stys is an old ‘buddy’ of mine and his website Xicons is turning 3 years old this summer. To celebrate, he’s offering T-Shirts for sale at around $12. Go pick one up if you’d like to support a great Mac focused web operator. I did.

Cleaing out my bookmarks: I think I’ve found my CMS talks about pMachine. Then this: Weblogs vs. Websites, Part 3 (or Retiring My Old Home Page) = “In short, I now believe that a weblog can be the main publishing platform for any website, including a law firm website.” An on going thread about using [...]

What a weblog from a non-native Texas might look like: May 30th: Just moved to Houston. Now this is a city that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I’ve finally found my home. [...]

12 days into my test of Google’s AdSense program, and I’m happy to report that according to the latest report, I’m looking at a payable of about $52.00 … keep this up, and my server costs should be covered by months end… The beauty of this advertising program is that I haven’t clicked an ad [...]

Last Monday, I fired an employee for the first time in my life. It was the worst morning of my life, and the weekend before that Monday was horrible as well. Firing an employee for whatever reason is probably the hardest thing a person can have to do, because when you’re in charge of hiring [...]

I just read this article: Safeway widens delivery of Web orders and I had to point out how cool I think it is that a grocery store is taking up the charge of offering web based order and grocery fulfillment again. I’m hoping it works out this time around, and that they don’t go down [...]

Todd Dominey writes about his new ‘old school’ mower in this post. I’m linking to that post, because an old neighbor of mine bought a reel mower for his lawn back when I lived in Fort Worth. When I asked him what was wrong with him when I saw him mowing with it at 7am [...]

This post is just too delectable to pass up linking to: Butt-simple Backup for Macintosh Laptop owners do you know how butt-simple it is to back up your tibook? …if anything goes wrong with your laptop, its your fault. these people just make it too easy. Classic.

I personally haven’t used Sherlock in at least 6 months, and only launched it today to check out the new Feedster integration that Scott has announced… I wonder what that says about Sherlock’s real usage? I know I’m not a typical Macintosh user, but I wonder how many other Mac users actually use Sherlock more [...]

Anyone remember Buck Rogers? Close right? wigi, wigi, wigi, wigi…. (or something like that)

Here’s a great british parody entitled “Tyre” of the ‘amazing Honda ad‘ that has been circulating around the internet since April. I have no idea what the “118118 Experience” is promoting, but if you’re british, and can shed some light on the subject that’d be cool. It seems to be a spoof just for this [...]

In case you were wondering what you missed by not joining us in Acuna, Mexico a while back, I’ve posted some photos from the trip we made to see Pat Green play at the Corona Club in Acuna:

Adam blogs a quick diddy about how Major League Baseball is turning away customers. The kicker for me is this line: “Go ask your dad how many words would fit into 2314 bytes.” The sad thing is I bet my dad (in-law) would know.

A series of three article (so far) about marketing targeted at the small ‘Independent Software Vendor’ where the “central theme is that if we demystify marketing, it can be competently done by technical people”: Choose Your Competition Marketing is not a Post-Processing Step Act Your Age Good job so far, looking forward to more. [via [...]

In case you haven’t noticed, the “Steal My Buttons” effort run by Taylor at gtmcknight.com is up to 839 Buttons. Wow.

An interesting approach to running Google AdSense program on a weblog, and an applaudable one at that. (it’s much like my images on/off switch in the top right navigational bar). [via Zeldman]

Wow! I’m amazed at Andy Bourland’s personal weblog. Not because Andy’s writing a weblog about his personal experiences, but because through his posts in his weblog, he’s essentially building his new business, Up2Speed, in the open, or at least as much as any business I’ve seen built in the open lately. Andy’s not just talking [...]

Following John Gruber’s lead… shit… I can’t follow his lead…. If you want to know why I’ve added Google AdSense ads to inluminent/weblog read his post on independence as it’s an eloquently written piece.

It’s nice to know I’ve inspired someone a little… welcome to the world of weblogging.

I just have to point to this post on MrBarrett.com about MacNN: …MacNN has become a dwelling place for People Who Don’t Know of What They Speak™. Priceless. [disclaimer: I used to work for MacNN, and am glad I no longer do, and know a bunch of folks that'll get a kick out of reading [...]

First Monday’s Business models of news Web sites: A survey of empirical trends and expert opinion, by Frederick Schiff, is a fantastic read for anyone looking at revenue models on the internet, specifically of the major content producers out there in media land.

A buddy of mine is havine a Garage Sale and his prices really aren’t bad. If you’re interested, check it out.

If you’re interested in writing web pages that are friendly to the Googlebot, read this post I just posted at Up2Speed.

Heads up: I’ll likely be adding Google’s AdSense program to this weblog in the coming week or two, mainly as a test. I’m encouraged by this article about boosting your AdSense revenue. I’d recommend you read the article if you publish a website at all, and are interested in getting their program on your website. [...]

I’m betting at this point that I won’t be posting again until next week, so, here are some links that I found interesting over the past month or so: ascii movies [via Scoble] before the web — a collection of personal historical perspectives and accounts of what went on before the dot com bubble… The [...]

I happened to have the occasion to move a web site today. We moved MarketingFix.com from one server to another, but we didn’t move the DNS yet (because we hadn’t set up email and all of the internal lists we’re still running @marketingfix.com) so, we had to figure out how to send traffic coming to [...]