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• The Bottomless Feed and the Need for Now Context “I’ve punted on trying to catch up on 19,000+ updated posts in Bloglines. I don’t have the time, or interest, in trying to sift through them all. I picked out a few blogs from a few categories that I’m absolutely interested in and skimmed through them and then marked all as read.” - Ed Costello I
• My TiVo Upgraded to Online Services As of tonight, my TiVo can receive Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Traffic, Live365 radio stations, and podcasts. I wasn’t able to successfully load up Minnesota Stories or PodcastMN by hand (text entry by remote not that annoying) right out of the gate. More to come. Update 14 January 2006: First Crack Podcast works on Tivo.
• RE: Blogger Sees Red Over StarTribune’s Lack of Citation As if I didn’t have enough reasons to grumble at the STrib - a reporter doesn’t credit their sources. Coincidentally, on a story covering questionable ethics. “Come on, Jackie. You called me about this on Thursday afternoon. We discussed the story, I pointed you to sources where you could find more info, including the email of
• Sorry About The Conversation Happening Without Me On a happy note, this post means the migration to WordPress 2.0 is complete. On an apologetic note, I’d like to apologize to everyone who has left a comment that completely got lost in the overly aggressive spam filter. Scott McGerik, Dave, and anyone asking questions about the plugins - sorry for not responding. I wasn’t
• Why Google Analytics Isn’t Useful After a couple months of being completely without site analytics, I thought I’d try out Google Analytics. Things it doesn’t measure; RSS feeds, downloads, downloads from RSS feeds. Considering 95% of what I’m tracking is accessible via an RSS feed (like podcasts). Google isn’t helping me. The previous iteration of their tool - Urchin, was