Archive for June 2002

OxymoronList.com is a wicked good site for word-philes. [Link UltimateInsult]

Oh, I could spend hours at photoSIG admiring and laughing at the photos. Amateur, professional, or in-between… submit photos for critique or provide your own critique on others’ photos.

I’m in awe of the photos in the High Rated Photos. It would be tough not to laugh at the Most Controversial Photos.

The articles section offers tutorials, reviews of photo-related products, and editorials. It’s a nice, simple site that is easy to get around on the first visit.

VerisignOff.org :: Take back your name from Verisign has an admirable goal: “The goal of VerisignOff is to help people understand that there are alternatives to Verisign/Network Solutions and that by patronizing these registrars, we help send an important message; consumers expect the companies that they patronize to treat them ethically and respectfully. We will not tolerate or reward companies who attempt to acquire or retain our business by deceit or obfuscation.”

Central Booking has relaunched and offers book excerpts, author interviews, reviews, news, and of course, a blog aptly named Re:Read. I lucked out when I went to sxsw and sat next to Kevin Smokler, the publisher of Central Booking, on the first night there. He handed me a nifty yellow clip with the URL and the book nut in me went right to the site as when arriving home. Bad idea. I didn’t get much unpacking done plus I joined the mailing list. - Sigh - Poor emailbox.

The Internet may have opened worlds for businesses and consumers, but it has also created a public relations nightmare for businesses. Forums, opinion Web sites, blogs, and anything that is publishable can smear a company’s name in moments. [Read the rest at meryl.net articles]

Nick will like this one. Project puts Gutenberg Bible in online form will give scholars the ability to browse the pages of the book that revolutionized printing. Only 48 of the original Gutenberg Bibles exist today and the project is managed from tu (secret code to Robyn).

Get notified of an emergency via email, cell phone, fax, or pager from emergencye.com. Enter your state and county information and select from a list of what you’d like to receive. The choices:

• Severe weather information
• Outage info from electric, gas, water, etc.
• Locating emergency supplies
• Organ donation
• Daily weather forecasts
• Routine blood drives
• Other services

The site also gives you the option to block non emergency message content during hours of your choosing.

Today, I received my first emergency thunderstorm email followed later by a canceled warning message. All’s good here. Nice service.

Tech chiefs dictate the future profiles and interviews 10 top information technology officers from Fortune 100 companies. Read what the head honchos from GM, US Office Management and Budget, Verizon, P&G, Fannie Mae, HP, Citigroup, Ford, IBM, and Cardinal Health think about IT’s future, Web services, and the impact of the Web on business.

Lately, I’ve been attempting to create a new design for the Gotchas as I plan to move it into the Movable Type environment. Right now, the pages are updated by hand and take too much time while the gotcha collection is piling up on my PC.

I want to give users the ability to increase the text size or change the style. To do this requires JavaScript and I wanted to be sure it was accessible for people who use the keyboard for maneuvering a site. All it took was adding another event handler &mdash onkeypress. I also added a note that JavaScript needed to be turned on to change the style. Other work arounds for the JavaScript issue are explained in Links & JavaScript Living Together in Harmony from evolt.org. The article includes code samplings.

Three talented individuals from the DFW crowd have struck gold again and put together a great tool for tracking your weblog reading list based on freshness. Those listed at the top are the most recent. It only takes a minute to figure out how it works once you get an account. Cool feature is that you can FTP the list to a server and bookmark it for whenever you’re ready to do your blog rounds. Without further ado, meet freshblogs.com.

Unlike other programs, it doesn’t rely a timed list like weblogs.com. The oldest one on my list is May 17. If you don’t do weblog rounds for a week, you can still see what’s been updated since your last round of reading.

<edit>Just discovered another feature with FreshBlogs — move the mousepointer over any blog in the list and it’ll give you the date and time it was last updated.<edit>