While at Stanford, I attended one of Eric Roberts board game nights. I’m a nerd, I admit it. Eric is a professor of Computer Science, CS education advocate, genuinely nice guy, and proud owner of 200+ board games. He brings a few games to a dorm that hosts him; it’s a great way to [...]

So, I sat down to read a few articles in bloglines last night; just 3 or 4 and then I was going to quit.  I have about 400 unread items in my VC folder, so I went to click on the little plus sign next to the folder to expand it out and choose a blog I like.  I [...]

So, reading Om today I found out that Facebook launched blogs for all their users. Except they didn’t call them blogs. Facebook is already pretty geeky; it’s a layer of abstraction on top of social interaction. So what does it say about the stigma around the word “blog” when Facebook is trying so hard to [...]

I was sitting on the beach today, just listening to the lapping waves of low tide and the idle chatter of fellow beach-goers, when I got the chorus of a song stuck in my head. I don’t know where it came and I couldn’t remember what is was… it was a nice song to have [...]

As promised in my post on a business that leverages interestingness in search engines, here’s another page from my raw brainstorm of business ideas: I’ll start with an explanation of the mental place I was in when I was forming the idea. About six months ago, I was surprised to learn just how high the [...]

I wonder if Digg could ever build up enough posts and acquire new posts at a fast enough rate that it could compete with a specialty search engine, like Technorati?
As long as users are posting articles by hand, Digg will never have enough articles to rival any search engine, but if a crawler could be [...]

When I first learned about Flickr I didn’t understand what the big deal was. It seemed like any other photo sharing site where the emphasis was on sharing and not printing. Photo sharing was nothing unique. Some people raved about tagging, others about the community, but for me the a-ha moment was “interestingness.” Flickr’s explaination [...]

Does anyone else consistently use multiple aggregators? Here’s my mix:

Firefox Live Bookmarks: I use this for Digg Headlines, my del.icio.us bookmarks, and mainstream news sources like NYTimes.
Bloglines: It’s a master list of all my feeds (my official OPML), but when I open it I generally read blogs (instead of traditional news sources with RSS [...]

I have been busy lately between work, taking care of Amy (my sis recently had her tonsils removed), and details in my transition to NY, but in the little free time I find, I often jet over to a page I bookmarked on Pitchfork.
Pitchfork Media release their top 100 favorite music videos of all [...]