Thanks to Jeff Carlson for pointing out the travesty of red ink’s demise in the classroom (CNN). With many teachers in the family, I know that red ink is still alive in some classrooms. Also, as a parent, if my kids can’t handle red ink on their work, well, we’re doing even more wrong than…

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Paul Graham, on Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas, notes: If you’re going to spend years working on something, you’d think it might be wise to spend at least a couple days considering different ideas, instead of going with the first that comes into your head. You’d think. But people don’t. … Part of the…

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Whittled down my current reading to, oh, two skimmed newspapers, three dense magazines, six open Safari windows, and two books nearly complete. I think I need to take some drastic steps off the information consumption path… but it’s a pretty interesting time all around, so I would definitely feel like I’m missing something. Maybe I…

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Actually, it’s not just geeks who will find the new Link Count numbers from PubSub interesting, but geeks will have fun arguing over a new dataset. Read all the details on Bob Wyman’s blog post. news.com.com was 34th in the top 100 for yesterday (March 31, 2005), with 161 sites linking 518 times. Thanks to…

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I know the folks at Webshots.com, but sometimes I forget just how many real people are using the service. For all the blog excitement about Flickr, the Alexa.com details about Webshots are a useful reminder that there are millions of people using Webshots every day. Alexa’s traffic figures are hard to compare against other data……

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AOL has blocked e-mail from my domain, which is frustrating to both me and my wife. Why? Someone in the same IP range at Verio probably sent something dodgy to AOL… or so AOL says. I hope it’s truly only temporary, no more than the 24 hours cited. Yahoo Groups has been more consistently annoying.…

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I’ve been quiet about Newsburst for a while now, but there are a few more changes out there to enjoy. Category-level stream and dashboard pages: lots of readers asked for these, and I know I wanted them, too. Stream view lets you see everything at once, but it’s nice to filter it down to a…

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A run, pancakes with the kids, a bike ride, some time at Crissy Field, lunch, a nap (yes!), playing in the backyard, and dinner out shortly. Happy birthday to me (and others). Oh, and this marks 732 days of public posting, with this post as #725. I started clock two years ago. One year ago,…

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In his essay How to Start a Startup, Paul Graham throws in the following observation: People who don’t want to get dragged into some kind of work often develop a protective incompetence at it. Paul Erdos was particularly good at this. By seeming unable even to cut a grapefruit in half (let alone go to…

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A few weeks ago, Om Malik published Flickr, Yahoo Deal Rumored. Today, Jerry Yang announced that Yahoo bought Flickr while on stage at PC Forum and the Flickr blog appears to be the official announcement, at least for now. Flickr-hoo! is Om’s note calling attention to the fact that he was proven right. Well done.…

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