Jim Flowers: To Do

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:08:52 GMT

Diego wants off of my link blog.

Diego doesn't want me to republish his blog posts. So far he's the third person to ask me to stop doing that on my linkblog. What do I do? Simply unsubscribe so that I don't see their posts anymore and am not tempted to link to them.

I used to do just headlines but, personally, that format is useless.

Why do I do my linkblog? For several reasons:

1) New readers need a way to find new blogs. I don't quote every post from someone's blog, just the most interesting ones to me. Out of 3,500 posts I usually put 100 on my link blog.

2) As a store for me to do my own searches later on. If I only had headlines in my RSS feed this would be useless. Instead, now, I have a way for me to find things that I found interesting months later.

3) As a way to get traffic and search engine juice to the people I find interesting. One link from this blog is worth quite a bit of Page Rank. Why? Because a lot of people link to it. Because of my publishing tool (Kunal Das wrote the tool, named OutlookMT).

4) It's pretty clear after reading my linkblog for a while that everything there came from someplace else and every item links back to its original owner.

5) I'm doing this for people who are overloaded with information and want to keep up to date on what the tech blogosphere is doing. It's a lot easier to read 100 items a day than 3,500.

How do I do this blog? I read all my feeds and anything I find interesting I drag over to a folder named "Blog This." That item is automatically placed on my link blog.

I also greatly appreciate Matt Mullenweg. He's donating the hosting and the back-end technology (it's running on WordPress).

I do find it interesting that Diego finds my linkblog interesting to read. It's interesting BECAUSE it has full-text reprints. If you want pure headline link blogs you can check those out on del.icio.us or bloglines. They simply aren't as useful.
[Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:43:03 GMT

And the Best Linux Desktop Is… (Ziff Davis). Ziff Davis - Opinion: There is no single answer. It really depends on what you want to do, but here are three of my favorites and the jobs they're most suited for. [Yahoo! News: Technology]

To do

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:27:49 GMT

Beta: Radio UserLand 8.1. We're working on a new Radio UserLand 8.1 release, and we'd like your help testing the recent changes. This beta-release includes several bug fixes and improvements. Some new features are a new linkToStyleSheet macro and in the news aggregator: Atom feed support and a new sort order preference. [UserLand Product News: Radio UserLand]

Thu, 09 Sep 2004 11:27:18 GMT

Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access: Notice Inviting Applications. The purpose of this program is to support projects that will develop innovative techniques or programs using new electronic technologies to collect information from foreign sources. Grants will be made to access, collect, organize, preserve, and widely disseminate information on world regions and countries other than the U.S. that address our nation's teaching and research needs in international education and foreign languages. [U.S. Department of Education]

Looks like a job for an international wikipedia supported by a network of school blogs... Any takers? I'll help connect those that are interested with those that can help write the grant application... Who knows?

Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:49:17 GMT

IT Strategies for DRM. I need a little help. Suppose you'd been asked to address the CTO organization of a major (over 125,000 employees) company on digital rights management. What would you tell them? There's the usual, technical talk stuff: [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:09:15 GMT

Definite To do

This is a public note to myself (if I can only remember where I left those other notes!).

Connected Computing Research Topics. I gave a talk to the BYU CS Department yesterday on research topics in connected computing. The slides are available as a PDF. If you work at a government agency (Federal, State, or Local) and find any of these topics interesting, I'd love to talk to you about a possible partnership to make a proposal to the National Science Foundation's eGovernment program. [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog]

Fri, 23 Jan 2004 09:48:28 GMT

Google spawns social networking service. The search company tip-toes into the hot market of online social networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:08:33 GMT

Commentary: Ten tips for killer Web services. Forrester experts synthesize the best and worst practices of early adopters into tips for business and IT managers to avoid common pitfalls and build killer Web services. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

Thu, 08 Jan 2004 10:00:41 GMT

Study: Wi-Fi weaving its way into homes. More and more broadband-connected homes are embracing Wi-Fi in the United States as well as those in Europe and Asia, according to a study by a U.K.-based market researcher. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

Thu, 08 Jan 2004 09:59:14 GMT

NY Times: Intel to Invest $200 Million in Home Media Networking. The company's newest venture capital fund is intended to support development of digital home entertainment networks, which would connect digital devices, like stereo systems, portable music players, flat-screen televisions and personal computers, and permit them to share and transfer video, music and information from room to room. [Tomalak's Realm]

Wed, 31 Dec 2003 19:17:36 GMT

"floating atoll: RSS with CSS" [Daypop Top 40]

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:23:25 GMT

More Businesses Are Turning to Paid Listings on Search Engines. For years Internet advertising was written off as ineffective. So, it is no small surprise that the hottest form of online advertising is now paid listings on search engines. By Saul Hansell. [New York Times: Technology]

Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:51:34 GMT

"Technorati Plugin rules over Technorati's watchlists" [Daypop Top 40]

Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:43:00 GMT

Year in review: News.com special reports. CNET News.com special reports show how technology trends turn painfully realistic after years of hype. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

add to essay on lists

Sun, 07 Dec 2003 13:21:48 GMT

"CSS Design: Creating Custom Corners & Borders: A List Apart" [Daypop Top 40]

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:52:10 GMT

RSS Enables Simple 'Headline News' on the Run. I'm beginning to envision the future of "headline news" -- RSS style on handhelds. UPDATED This is a new Treo... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:50:00 GMT

To Grab Young Readers, Newspapers Print Free, Jazzy Editions. How can newspapers persuade more young readers, particularly those from their late teens to their mid-30's, to pick up a paper? By Jacques Steinberg. [New York Times: Business]

Mon, 01 Dec 2003 09:47:37 GMT

Idea for Online Networking Brings Two Entrepreneurs Together. The last few months have brought a flurry of new Web sites devoted to social networking. By Teresa Riordan. [New York Times: Technology]

Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:15:24 GMT

EE Times: Sony leads eBook venture. Sony Corp. and 14 major publishing, printing and newspaper companies are planning a new eBook business that will focus on rental service based on OpenMG, Sony's digital rights management technology. [Tomalak's Realm]

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:26:47 GMT

Tech Summit to Tackle Net Issues. World leaders from 56 nations will attend the first U.N. confab on information technology to discuss such questions as who governs the Internet and free speech guidelines for the global medium. President Bush is not among them. [Wired News]

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:26:14 GMT

Clark Campaign to Debut Big Blog. The presidential campaign of Wesley Clark understands the power of blogs. That's why the candidate will debut a big community site that centralizes the personal blogs of his supporters and offers grassroots tools. By Chris Ulbrich. [Wired News]

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:25:18 GMT

The Massachusetts Internet tax mystery. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh explains how state tax collectors learned the identities of residents who bought cigarettes over the Web. [CNET News.com - Front Door]

Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:39:44 GMT

"Political Compass" [Daypop Top 40]

Sun, 09 Nov 2003 03:50:34 GMT

Things to look at

Suburban Blight (link)

Single man in the south (link)

Grouchy old cripple (link)

Web surfing benefits workers (link)

Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:39:58 GMT

Drudge work pays extremely well. Media interest in Matt Drudge appears to be perking up in time for the 2004 primaries, because I've started getting interview requests again due to the Drudge Retort, which hasn't happened since the impeachment debacle.

I recently talked to Richard Pachter for a Miami Herald article on the obscene amount of money Drudge is raking in:

According to the rates posted on www.intermarkets.net, advertisers are charged $3 per thousand impressions for banner ads, or $4,400 a day (discounted to $29,000 a week). ...
After Intermarkets takes its commission, the ad revenue is almost pure profit for Drudge, who says he shares a percentage of his profits with [copublisher Andrew] Breitbart. The overhead is minimal: $4,000 a month for Web-server costs plus about $20 a month for Internet service.

The only number that surprises me is $20/month. Drudge sounds like more of a hoarder than a spender, according to Pachter, but I think he can probably afford a broadband Internet subscription. [Workbench]