January 2009
30 posts
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Five Favorite Domain Name Tools →
A friend wrote in for advice on searching for a domain name, so here are a few of my favorite tools to get going:
Nameboy Domain Name Generator is the industry standard of domain name…
Obama’s Pick: Hope for the FCC? →
The festivities are over, and we have our 44th President. And if you’re technology geek keeping an eye on the signals out of Washington, you might be feeling a little bit of Hope.
Among the many…
Putting Social Media in Context →
Via Daniel Tunkelang’s outstanding blog The Noisy Channel:
Just a heads up that Danah Boyd has published her PhD dissertation entitled “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in…
How I Gained Traffic and Lost My Soul: Google... →
Last Thursday I detailed a rather questionable technique for achieving a quick increase in web traffic through the use of Google Trends. In a nutshell it involves using Google Trends to find…
Tumblr Updates to v.5, Gets New Features →
Via Mashable/Vimeo:
A great-looking update to a service I’ve raved about:
Tumblr v5 “Sexy As Hell”
January 16, 2009 - 11:11 am PDT - by Pete Cashmore
The changes have been…
Presidential Oath of Office →
The Presidential Oath of Office
The information below is courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol. It has been compiled by the Office of the Curator from contemporary accounts and other sources in…
Inaugural Fun: Make Your Own Obama Icon →
The good folks at Paste Magazine are definitely in on the spirit of inaugural fever with this gadget:
http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com
…which they describe succinctly:
Make your own…
“Money is a form of merit. Value comes in many forms and it also comes in...”
– Garry Conn
Why you should oppose the death penalty. →
totalblamblam:
I’m pretty sure this song just...
Hipster_(contemporary_subculture) →
Bad Tune by Earth, Wind & Fire