David Lee King wrote an interesting post last week that outlines all of the digital communities in which he participates. He entitled it “Participating in Digital Community, or Lots of Links to David.” I thought that was a good idea and so here goes similar information for me. It would make an interesting [...]

Yesterday I was feeling pretty low with a cold. We were supposed to visit my family downstate but cancelled that trip. I feel badly that we had to do that but it was the right decision. I’m feeling better this a.m., which is good. I found it hard to believe when [...]

 
Wish I could try out this new “location aware”  photo service from Yahoo! called Zurfer.  It allows you to receive photos taken by others based on your location.  It won’t download to my Blackberry 8700c, however; I just tried. 

I was excited to read the news last night that Chicago was picked over Los Angeles as the site nominated by the U.S. for the 2016 Olympics. How cool would it be to live near the Olympics, if Chicago happens to win the international bid? I think Chicago is a great choice (prejudice [...]

These are my links for February 18th through February 19th:

FeedBurner - A service for adding a lot of additional blog bling, for free, including email subscriptions, traffic statistics, and other stuff.
Page2RSS - Creates an RSS feed for any web page so that you can be alerted when a change has been made. Checks each [...]

Lots of nice improvements have been made recently in web-related software and services that I regularly use. Here is a list of the ones I can think of that are worth mentioning:

coComment: This service just keeps getting better. Now it allows me to track conversations via webpages or comments on individual postings. [...]

Last week (or maybe the week before, I forget), the first public beta release of my favorite web browser, Flock, was released. Naturally I was eager to put it through its paces. I’m glad to say that this is an even better browser than before, with one or two exceptions. In my [...]

Macworld: News: Google to increase Gmail’s inbox to 2GB and more
Great news! I’m relatively new to Gmail but I like it so far. I also have a Yahoo! account and it was recently increased to 1 Gb in storage. With the beta release of Yahoo! 360, I am wondering how/whether to make [...]

I just finished adding some features to this blog. One is the addition of online status indicators for the three IM accounts that I regularly use: AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger. If you see one or more of these icons show that I’m online, just click on the one for the [...]