by danielbpatton | Nov 5, 2003 | #hacks
Get it and retrieve headlines and summaries from over 5,700 news sources in 25 languages. Related articles Were You a Google Reader Power User? Try Newsdesk. (moreover.com) Newsdesk Feature Spotlight: Companies and People in Newsletters (moreover.com) Guardian’s...
by danielbpatton | Nov 5, 2003 | #techculture
Edward Wasserman, of The Miami Herald, adds a chapter to the Big Blur saga. What’s news? What’s entertainment? Who’s being paid and how? I wonder increasingly: who’ll nod to the business realities driving this trend to murkiness? During Friends...
by danielbpatton | Nov 4, 2003 | #hacks
A few of my regular web stops don’t publish newsletters, push feeds, or acknowledge my existence whatsoever, so I have Profusion send me an e-mail when these pages are updated. I get an html page in my inbox with any changes highlighted for me. I have an Alert...
by danielbpatton | Oct 22, 2003 | #hacks
In commenting on a New York Times article on the subject, Steve Outing (at Poynter) speaks promisingly of a “new” spam-fighting trend of filtering in good content and trashing the rest (as opposed to the traditional scan-for-bad appoach). You know, I’ve been doing...
by danielbpatton | Oct 15, 2003 | #hacks
From the folks at Powerreporting.com comes this comprehensive tutorial on search techniques. Without getting over-technical, this tutorial gives just the right amount of detail to help you find what you need from search engines (even Alta Vista!). Did you know, for...
by danielbpatton | Oct 13, 2003 | #brand, #hacks
David Allen: Here’s a bright man who wrote a bright book (consider the audio version, and listen in the car!) of bright ideas: not the least of which is the concept of levels. Allen says we could view daily projects and grinds at 10,000 feet. At 20,000 we...