If you don’t use Google Reader or Bloglines or some other feed reader, you can stop reading now.
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Months ago, after at least a couple years of just throwing all my feeds in Google Reader and sorting by newest, reading from the top down and marking all as read when I felt full of [...]
All about serendipity
When all I have left is my Fun folder, I win
March 6, 2010
A Newsstand for the Tablet that might work
January 29, 2010
“Newsstand” by triin on Flickr.
Mario Garcia probably believes the lifespan (halflife?) of print newspapers will stretch out ever so slightly longer than I believe, but I’m constantly inspired by his original thought about the problems associated with sustaining any version of the existing structure of journalism, assuming for the moment that it’s a good idea.
And [...]
Muxtape as a model for an anti-recommendation engine
July 2, 2008
Muxtape has my attention.
It’s not terribly social. It’s not much of a network.
In fact, it’s so devoid of features, there’s little to distract you from listening to music, which is what you showed up to do.
The front page of the site is dead simple: A colorful list of mixtapes to listen to, with relatively opaque [...]
Help a reporter out
March 19, 2008
Peter Shankman launched something really, really interesting to me today at HelpAReporter.com.
The premise: He works in PR and has a list of reliable and credible sources a mile long; his reporter friends are constantly asking him who they should call about [your story topic here].
Check it out, sign up, and maybe you can help [...]
Search drives serendipity, a continuing conversation
July 31, 2006
[Ed. note: This is the text of an e-mail I sent in reply to a comment a J-School professor from the University of Florida left on a post from a couple months ago regarding Serendipity on the Web. Part of his reply is posted at the end of this post.]
Hi Prof. McKeen -
Thanks for your [...]