Now, I wish to be very clear about what this is. Every single item in this book exists on the site as it stands — right now — for free. I have simply done the hard work for you; which is going through nearly 2000 updates and compiling the best posts, essays, and quotes into a couple of hundred pages. I then had these professionally edited and the cover, layout, and design done to make it an attractive and easy to read book.
Category: General Tech
Explosions!
A Year of Field Notes
Where Readability’s Money Went
Shawn Blanc figured that seven percent of money collected “for writers” actually made it to writers.
Seven. Percent.
I signed up for the service (hey, income is income!), but never saw a dime. Shawn closes his article with this, and I couldn’t agree more:
As a writer whose sole publishing platform is the Web, I now find myself uncomfortable and saddened by Arc 90′s attitude of entitlement over my original content (not the least of which is the new Readlists service and its emphasis on exporting, repurposing, and distributing of someone else’s original content into an eBook).
Nook Hacked to Run Mac OS 7.5.3
On Twitter as RSS
Twitter is great. I funnel a lot of stuff from Twitter into Instapaper and Pinboard. But Twitter is a flowing river. I am not on Twitter all day so I miss the clever banter and people complaining about Twitter.2 RSS is time-shifted. RSS is targeted and bounded by my subscriptions.
For these reasons, I don’t use Twitter as an RSS replacement.
Here at the 512 Pixels HQ, I know the site has a lot more RSS subscribers than Twitter followers, for what it’s worth.
Slow Motion Hard Drive
Romney and Scamworld
Casio, in 1984
I love my Casio, and I sure love this collection of ads.
Terrible Tech Tattoos
No dogcow tattoos on this list, so I think I’m good.