Monthly Archives: July 2007

The One Thing Gmail Really Needs — And Has Never Been Done

And that I would almost pay money for.
I mean there are a bajillion add-ons for Gmail — and some of them are even useful — but for the love of all that’s holy, why hasn’t anyone figured out a greasemonkey script to allow Gmail to sort your inbox/folders by its column? It, by its unchangeable [...]

Excuses For Not Blogging, Hip Fractures, Free Shirts, CSS Hiccups and So On.

Many apologies for not writing for many, many days. Yes, I know — many of you are probably well past withdrawal thanks to my electronic absence. Sadly, a number of factors have caught up with me over the past week and a bit, namely, the following:

being on-call a lot at the hospital, [...]

Jakob Nielson — With The Humblest Respect? You Don’t Understand Blogging, Sir.

Jakob Nielsen is probably the furthest thing from a Johnny-Come-Lately. The man started his blog site in 1995, back when domain registration cost $70. He is the Original Gangsta of usability. Which is all the more sad that he decides to write a typical Nielsen-ian article with all of the pomp and [...]

Pownce Is Not Twitter, Nor Is It As Important As Twitter.

Probably because it differs in two critical ways.

Avoiding Email Bankruptcy

Well, I’ve just spent the better part of two hours cleaning and sorting out my inbox, and I’ve finally dodged email bankruptcy once again.
Whew.
“Email bankcruptcy” is that term that was coined by Laurence Lessig, where you basically throw your hands in the air, and delete your entire inbox — then send out a mass email [...]

I Have Pownce Invites — Help Me Test It Out!

So, I finally got on Pownce yesterday, and I need some help testing it out as I have no friends — on Pownce.
Pathetic, isn’t it? :)
Anyway, I have 6 invites to get things going, so I was hoping to start a chain-invite thing going, where I could invite the first few people who leave comments [...]

A Deep And Flawed Misunderstanding of A-Lists, Blogs, And Social Networks

… is being propagated by Hugh McLeod, who, once again, has decided to raise the egalitarian “Es Gibt Keine Einliste Es gibt keine A-Liste” (Or, “There is no A-list”, for our non-German reading readers). This issue seems to raise its head every few months, and I am continually flabbergasted that people such as Mr. [...]