Heather noticed that I turned on several of the FeedFlare features for my RSS feed. I fall in love with FeedBurner more and more every day.
Email this
Send a link to your item to someone via email.
Email author
Allow subscribers to email you directly. (If there is no email address in your feed, this will be hidden.)
Technorati Cosmos
Display the number of links to your item from blogs, as measured by Technorati. (If there are no links, this will be hidden.)
Del.icio.us tags
Lists del.icio.us tags for an item. (If there are no tags, this will be hidden.)
Save to del.icio.us
Allows subscribers to bookmark the item with del.icio.us.
Count comments
Lists the number of comments posted to an item (for WordPress blogs only).
Creative Commons
Displays the Creative Commons license that you may have applied to your feed (or to individual content items).
I’ve turned them all on, save the Email Author feature, for obvious reasons. I may turn off the comment counter as I think it’ll cause NetNewsWire to register a change, and therefore mark it as new again. All this for free!
Tags: feedburner, feedflare
I haven’t thought of any resolutions, other than to stop being prematurely mysterious when hinting about announcements.
What are yours? Have any suggestions for me?
Tags: newyears, resolutions
I’ve become really addicted to Digg. Slashdot has simply become too slow and excludes far too many worthy stories. The unfortunate side effect is that some stories get more attention than they really deserve.
This month, it was a whole class of stories: “Best of”. Pseudonyms include “things you didn’t know about”, “things you should download”, and “things for new blank users”. They’re just lists of things that people like. They’re not noteworthy and usually, they’re not even original.
The story that was the straw that broke the camel’s back was 10 Apps Every New Mac User Should Download. I like and use many of the applications on his list.
None of them are particularly original. Honestly, I don’t even think every new Mac user should download them. I don’t think Mom is going to get just how cool Quicksilver is. Heck, how many people actually need Nvu, the web page editor? That aside, does this topic need to be rehashed three times a day, particularly when new versions of these apps have their own Digg stories?
Is it really practical to run 50 Firefox extensions when some of them don’t even work with the current version? How about a list of the 10 most mediocre, unremarkable pieces of software?
Tags: bestof, software
Being the vain man that I am, I google myself every once in a while. I feel the compulsion, if for no other reason because I’m afraid of Derik Farnsworth overtaking me, then coming to my house to call me a girly man.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that there was a story about me as a camel. I know everyone thinks of me as a camel because I have foul breath and spit a lot. Ha ha. Seriously though, the story is priceless as is the following repeated phrase.
Derik, Derik, has no hump. Derik, Derik, what a chump!
It’s official. I have no hump and I am a chump.
Tags: camels, chump, derik, hump, vanity
Merry Christmas to all the Christians in the audience. I hope you find your hopes and dreams under the tree.
Hopefully I’ll have a big announcement to share with y’all soon.
