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Windows Live Writer is awesome. That is all.
I think my favourite Microsoft product is actually one of their free offerings.
Windows Live Writer
Essentially, it’s a word processor for bloggers. You enter your blog’s URL and your password and you’re ready to go.
Open it up (it loads pretty quickly on all my computers,) write then post. Done.
It pulls in your blog’s [...]
Think about what you’re posting online…
I’ve written before that some folks really need lessons on how the Internet works. Nothing you post is completely private and even once deleted, it’s not necessarily gone.
This more true now than a few years ago, too.
Facebook, which was originally a fairly private network where only people you’d authorized as “friends” could see [...]
SEO killed the witty headline
There used to be a very depression realization many journalists came to one day.
The realization that they aren’t writing for readers, but writing to satisfy their editor.
But now there’s a new and even more depressing reality to hit.
You aren’t even writing for your editor anymore, you’re writing for Google’s search algorithm.
David [...]
I miss that sound
I’m going to come off some like some old writer lamenting that using a computer doesn’t feel as “right” as using a typewriter.
But with that out of the way, I will say: I think modern keyboards are too quiet.
I miss the clickety-click, while typing along.
Well, I suppose it was for someone like [...]
Weekend Reading 15/05
Although I’ve already mentioned it once on this site, James Fallows has a fantastic piece on Google and the future of news in this month’s issue of The Atlantic.
Meanwhile, The Oatmeal shows us 8 Websites You Need to Stop Building.
And Wired suggests that Facebook has gone rogue.
On subscription options
I picked up the latest issue of The Atlantic, mostly to read James Fallows’ feature on Google and the future of the news but as soon I opened the issue, as with any print magazine, a pile of those subscription cards fell to the floor.
Glancing at the cards, I soon found myself slightly confused [...]
City of Ottawa launches open data site
Just a quick post to note that the City of Ottawa voted last night to open up city data that doesn’t violate privacy to the public – providing an easy way to build new and better applications using city information.
As way as adopting the principle, the city has also opened their data catalogue to [...]
Alright Mac users, you’ve got some games
For many years, one of the biggest weaknesses of Apple’s Macintosh computers was the severe lack of games.
Well, today that starts to change as Valve Software is opening up their online game store and platform Steam to Mac users.
There aren’t too many games available for Macs yet, but there’s one big thing.
Valve’s [...]
Humble Indie Bundle breaks $1 million
Last week I wrote about the “Humble Indie Bundle,” where several independent video games were bundled together and offered up to customers for whatever price they felt like paying.
Well, for the week the sale lasted, the publishers raised $1,082,082.
Buyers were asked to allocate an amount of their purchase price to charity, which came out [...]
Five blogs I can’t live without
Canadian Magazines
A blog tracking what’s left of the Canadian media industry – a topic without enough information sources.
PostSecret
PostSecret started as an art project that has since spawned several books.
Frank Warren invites people to send him post cards anonymously that reveal a secret the sender has kept.
The responses range from absurd and humourous, [...]
