Like: How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity - The Washington Post
Economists find a striking correlation between the density of ancient Roman roads and levels of modern economic activity...Like: Best Free RSS Reader-Aggregator | Gizmo's Freeware
Introduction The “best” feed reader is largely a matter of individual preference. There are many good ones. ...Trimming my Twitter Feed
I purged about 40 people or blogs I was following on Twitter. I want to reduce the echo effect and I don’t need to...Like: Scripting News: Smarter search for the open web
Google started out ridiculously smart, but it’s been stagnant for too long. They clearly need competition. Like: S...Oh fudge! No sooner than I shoot off my mouth about the death of webrings than I think of another use for them. Or maybe how to improve them? Drat! Well that’s another long post I have to write.
Musings on Building a Search Engine
If I were building a search engine… You need to start building your own index of the web. That means you need a ...Like: Shakespeare Insult Kit
Just follow these simple instructions to create the perfect shakespearean insult: [Via] Like: Shakespeare Insult KitCoroner's Report: Webrings are Dead, Part I
The finding of the Coroner’s Court is that 1990’s style webrings are officially dead. Evidence of Demise Tw...To do list: Internal Ads, More Directory Listings, Housekeeping
To Do’s Internal ads: I need to look into ad or banner system plugins for Wordpress. I don’t need it right n...Next Up: Mojeek.com Search Engine Test 2018
UK based Mojeek.com is the next privacy search engine I am going to make my default and use for a few weeks. (There is a...Qwant Search Engine: My Daily Use as Default Results
My experiment with Qwant search engine is ending early. On July 20th, 2018 I started using it as my default search engin...Like: Best Browsers of 2018 | Expert Reviews
Like: Best Browsers of 2018 | Expert Reviews.Okay I take back my hate post on emoji. Partly. They look much better on a Mac than on Linux. They are black and white on Linux, and tiny. It must be an engineer thing.
I am in no way a Minimalist.
Free Kindle Bookshelf Added | Take a book
For my own amusement and because the Wordpress plugin was free, I made a little bookshelf of free public domain ebooks a...OStatus Plugin for Wordpress Test
I just installed OStatus plugin for Wordpress. It’s a bit short on details as to how it all works. Scant few contr...Google releases Android 9 Pie with new navigation, personalization, and "digital wellbeing" features
The latest version of Google Android is the first to include native support for phones with display cutouts (notches) an...I keep asking myself, “How do I sell my friends on Facebook, on moving to Micro.blog.” I don’t think I can describe MB. I think the best answer is to have them sign up for free trial or even 1 month and try it. Any of them can afford $5. I’ll walk them through MB step by step. I think that is the best way.
Micro.blog can be a Twitter replacement and do it much better, but I don’t see it as just a Twitter replacement because it is so much better and deeper than Twitter, at least in my mind. Mastodon is a good Twitter replacement. Micro.blog is evolving into a full Facebook replacement, although completely different. in design.
I think I’m going to add a page of free public domain Kindle ebooks I have enjoyed on Wordpress. I didn’t read them on Kindle but a Palm Pilot PDA, but everybody uses Kindle so that makes it accessible.
Good old “trial and error” if you and your website survive it, it gets the job done.