Too many tabs sitting open for far too long. Here we go:
Hugh Macleod on Applying "Creativity" to Your Professional Life Etc. Some nice tips, especially for those of us just starting our professional lives. Not really much to say about this, but a lot to think about. I'll probably keep this open and glance at it every once in a while despite having linked to it. (Note: This was posted on January 9th so I've had it sitting in my browser for a month!)
Andre Torrez's first Django app is a simple random color generator that is absolutely amazing and beats any other "Hello, World" I've ever seen. I'm a Rails guy and this is so cool I might just try writing my own just for kicks.
Today Is The Day is a really weird and creepy one-post blog about a day in the life of a styrofoam man. Really can't say much else about it, but it's worth checking out.
Air Traffic Controller Don Brown on air traffic safety vs. capacity. Quite an interesting and enlightening read, though probably not the best thing to read two weeks before boarding a 17-hour flight (granted I read this before I knew I'd be going back to South Africa).
I will keep doing this periodically, but it's worth noting that I'm sharing a lot more of what I come across over on Google Reader. Check out my link blog or add me as a friend directly from Google Reader/Google Chat (martingordon at gmail).
I am on Twitter, but I don't know why. At least for me, Facebook status updates are much more convenient and more readily accessible to anyone that would care to know what I'm doing, if not equally useless.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, SMS, email, phone, IM
Digg 3.0 was released to the world today with a bunch of new features detailed all over the 'Net, the most important of which are the five new categories now featured. They are tagged "beta", as is par for the course, and encompass Science, World & Business, Videos, Entertainment and Gaming. Note that you must be a registered member in order to try out the new categories. The tag cloud is also a new feature that weighs stories based on their popularity. I haven't spent much time in either Digg v2 or Digg v3, so I'll the real in-depth reviews to those more qualified.
What's more interesting is the war being waged between Digg and the new Netscape home page. Kevin Rose fired the first shot by saying that Netscape should have waited until this week to copy Digg's features and now Jason Calcanis fires back about the number of ads on the new version of Digg. My first visit to Netscape's site (just a few minutes ago) greeted me with the (non-anchored) headline, "Digg 3.0 Disappoints". My only hope is that the two communities not use the sites as the battleground and stick to the sites' real purpose.
Digg has first-mover advantage but Netscape has AOL's relatively infinite purse to back it up if times get rough. Like I said, I'm not invested enough in Digg and the two sites are similar enough that I don't really care which way it goes. In the end, it's the users who benefit. Competition is always healthy.
Technorati Tags: Digg, Netscape, social news, news, competition, Web 2.0
Dave Winer's Share Your OPML has opened up to the public last night/today. I've posted my OPML file with all 70 of my RSS feeds there. A quick count shows that only 19 or so of my feeds are in the top 100, so I'm getting a broad view of the blogosphere and not just reading the A-listers. Also, I thought 70 was a relatively large number, but the most prolific subscribers on the site subscribe to 269-2549 feeds (eliminating the #1 podfeed.net, which I don't think is a real person).
I'd be interested to know how the "Subscriptions Like Mine" algorithm works. My top match is Pete Gilbert with a strength of 14.025. It then jumps to 5 points and lower.
I had to export my OPML from NetNewsWire a couple of times before I got it right. For those using NNW, if you're going to export a selection, don't select folders and feeds in those folders or you'll get duplicate feeds in your file. You need to select one or the other. Also, you're going to want to export the file as "OPML (flat)" instead of "OPML (with groups)".
Technorati Tags: Share Your OPML, SYO, OPML, feeds, RSS, XML, Dave Winer, Scripting News, NetNewsWire, sharing, Web 2.0
