Category Archives: Technology

Finally Waking Up From the Bad Dream

The move off Dreamhost has finally begun.
And while I’m only about 10% done, I already feel tremendous.
So long DH….lord knows I gave you more than enough chances to change. No more of your abuse for me.

Hulu Thoughts

There’s no shortage of Hulu coverage elsewhere (TechCrunch, WSJ, NewTeeVee) that I unfortunately don’t have time to fully read and digest just yet…but I will leave some initial thoughts after interacting with the first embeddable clip I used in my Hulu test:

I really dig the little scrubbable clip customizer, that lets you grab a small [...]

Hulu Test

Looks like I have some resizing of my main content area to do.

How big of a dork does it make me…

…if I totally want one of these?
[via FFFFOUND!]

Best Widget Ever

Share This Deportes

This past week, RxSN launched a little variation on Alex King’s ubiquitous Share This plugin for Wordpress that I’ve started running here.
It’s called Share This Deportes, and it’s the same as the original, but with sites like Fark, CollegeHumor, Yardbarker and Ballhype added. If you’re a sportsblogger running Wordpress, I suggest you give it [...]

Hooked

If you’re on Facebook and you haven’t added the Scrabulous app, I can tell you straight up, you are missing out on the best thing since the dramatic prairie dog. There I said it.
If you have added it, what are you waiting for? Challenge me to a match already. (Is the proper [...]

Scribd Testing

Yahoo Didn’t Steal Your Precious Digg

Diggers, please, give it a rest. I know you’re probably in a bad mood already, what with the grim outlook for your favorite Hobbit on Lost — but you’re all making yourself look silly with your protests this morning over Yahoo’s alleged “rip-off” of Digg. As Michael Arrington pointed out:
…the purpose of the [...]

9 Simple Ways (That Have Nothing To Do With VOD) To Fix Netflix

I’ve had a mini-manifesto (can I call it a ‘minifesto’?) brewing in the back of my mind for awhile now, and it’s time I just put it out there: as a long-time Netflix user (with over 1,300 movie reviews logged), as well as a casual investor/market watcher following their stock (Nasdaq: NFLX) and its fortunes [...]