Bill Tancer was right
Bill Tancer’s “blog”:http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/ first hit my radar when “Lee Rainie”:http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/a/102/about_staffer.asp at Pew Internet & American Life told me about it… since then, I’ve found it to be a treasure-trove of insight into search traffic. Last month, I “wrote about Bill’s observations about home sales”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2006/08/25/search_as_a_leading_economic_indicator.php, and the fact that he believed, based on search activity in [...]
How’s no? No work for you?
Wow. I was just playing around with MySpace’s blogging tool, trying to understand how it handles feeds. After clicking “customize”, check out my options:
Um, no or no?
New WordPress plugin - Landing Sites
I’m in love. I just found a WordPress plugin that replicates some nice functionality I had in my old Movable Type install. The Movable Type version was called “MT Refsearch”:http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2003/12/03/implemented_mt-refsearch.php, and the idea behind it is pretty cool: if you come to a page on my site because you searched for a post, Refsearch would [...]
Preaching to the wired
A couple weeks ago, I gave a keynote presentation to the “ELCA Communicators Conference”:http://www.elca.org/communication/comcon/index.html. ELCA is the largest association of Lutheran churches in the US, and the conference is a bi-annual meeting that gathers communicators from across the church to learn about how to better communicate to their members, employees, etc.
I was particularly excited about [...]
Verizon broadband update
Was stuck in traffic yesterday en route to Baltimore for a family event (no, I was not driving!) and was able to stay online for 2 full hours. No interruptions in service… while the speed wasn’t super zippy, it was absolutely perfect for email, IM and casual browsing. What would’ve been a huge hole in [...]
Outlook 2007 and RSS support
As I mentioned last night, I downloaded the Office 2007 beta 2 and have been using it today to see how it works. Outlook’s support for feeds is pretty interesting, so I thought I’d give a run-down on my initial reactions. More after the jump.
Office 2007 Beta 2 available for download
Seen over at “Uneasy Silence”:http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/05/6441/, the Office 2007 Beta is now available for download. I’m downloading it overnight, should be ready to play with tomorrow… I’m eager to see what they’ve done with RSS outside of IE7. Download link is “here”:http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/overview.mspx.
Verizon Broadband Wireless card
Filling out an expense report the other day, I was shocked to see how much money I’m spending each month on Internet access: airports routinely get you for $5-10 per day, T-Mobile can add another $20-30/month for periodic access at Starbucks in between meetings while on the road, and hotels are generally $15 or more [...]
Like clockwork…
My last ThinkPad gave up the ghost at about 13 months old. And here I am, another ThinkPad, another “unmountable boot volume” blue screen of death. Almost 13 months to the day.
Sigh.
Even I can see the irony in the fact that my blog is the #1 search for “thinkpad unmountable boot volume”:http://www.google.com/search?q=thinkpad+unmountable+boot+volume.
Naperville library scraps fingerprint scanning plans
Very interesting. Last year, Naperville’s announcement that it would require fingerprint scans in order to get Internet access landed our fair city on the “front pages of Slashdot”:http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/20/1646225, not to mention a host of newspapers around the country. Now, a year later, it appears that the plan’s “dead”:http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0605060165may06,1,6710890.story?coll=chi-technology-hed.
The library’s saying it’s a software compatibility issue, [...]
