Jason Kottke takes a look at how blogs and The New York Times fare in Google results. He checks the results for eight of 2005’s top news stories. Interestingly, the NY Times didn’t do as well as the blogs. For eight top news stories of 2005, blogs were listed in Google search results before the [...]

Long-time readers know that I am a huge fan of Merlin’s excellent 43 folders blog. In this blog entry, he writes about writing sensible email messages. I especially like the sections on writing a great subject line and brevity. As he notes, “It’s completely depressing to check your email at 4:55 in the afternoon to [...]

Readers of this blog know that we are huge fans of Medgadget. In fact, our most regular feature is our weekly summary of new devices and their names We were thrilled when the Medgadget crew included a link to us, branding (!) us “Geeks” on their site. (We take no offense. We know what we [...]

Here’s a useful resource for all the inspired start-up founders and the marketing challenged, a reading list for your own personal MBA via Josh Kaufman’s Inside My Bald Head. There are more than a few great books on here, including my personal faves, David Allen’s “Getting Things Done,” Guy Kawasaki’s “The Art of the Start,” [...]

This week, we’re sitting here listening to mp3s through the tiny and tinny speakers of 12” Powerbook, while staring at our recently connected stereo. The one with the 100 watt receiver and incredible B&W bookshelf speakers. So, why aren’t we listening, really listening to music? Because the tunes we want to listen to are on [...]