We all commit this crime every day of our lives: answering a question without knowing, for sure, the answer. I don’t mean knowing in any existential sense. I simply mean that, given time, a good library and/or search engine, you could find a citable reference for answering with the information you provide, or a close…

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I really only do anything, to date, with pencoyd.com, but I own three others, and I’ve let a previous one or two go. Back in the boom days (1999), I was actively working on iventing.com… a one-time business idea much akin to what planetfeedback.com was doing, before they were bought by Intelliseek. I ask the…

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A few weeks ago, I finished the third volume of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Four months ago, I noted that I had never heard of this author or the books, despite their presence in the final 21 books in the BBC’s Big Read. Turns out Lord of the Rings ended up #1, but…

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OK, terrible Dora the Explorer reference there, but… well, I have a three year old boy. Anyway, the map in question is the ACME Mapper. I grew up here. I now live here. You do the math.

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Many geeks (and I mean that term as a compliment) are focused on the burgeoning world of RSS, aggregration, blogs, and the swirling flux in the center of these phenomena. The question I have — and I really want to answer this — is whether the geeks are right to focus so much on this…

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Don’t connect to the VPN at the same time as publishing a blog entry. It doesn’t work. Eventually had to restart Radio to get these two most recent tiny posts live.

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OK, now News.com Alerts are really something visible. At least, I think that a header link on every single page on the site might be seen by a few readers. We’ll see. http://alerts.news.com/

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Hacking TiVo to display RSS feeds on your TV. Andrew Grumet did it. Why? A question I can’t answer.

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Last night we ambled around the northeast quadrant of San Francisco for the Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt. An “urban sleuthing adventure,” the treasure hunt is a great excuse to get out and see the city, at ground level. Maybe ‘level’ isn’t the right word in San Francisco — we traipsed up and down various…

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I’ve submitted my blog to a few of these resources, but not all. Looks like RSS is starting to gain attention in the way search-engine optimization grew a few years ago.

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