New RSS Reader by Apple for Windows

You’ve used Google Reader and BlogLines, but have you used Safari? Safari has been my RSS Reader (and browser) of choice ever since its debut years ago, but now its available for Windows as well! It’s not a web-based reader like others, but you can read, search, and sort all of your RSS feeds offline as well as online. Its subtle number count in your…

Editor Goes With A Flickr, Pin-up Girl Nips ‘Em

There are two Flickr tales today so you know what that means: combo article! Woo hoo! A veteran newspaperman is out of a job, announcing his plight via the very medium that pulled the rug out, and an online pin-up girl has her account reinstated after a nasty spat over how much breast, exactly, makes a photo obscene. "Editor Goes With A Flickr, Pin-up Girl…

Michigan Schools Get Google Apps For Education

Google occasionally works out deals with individual universities, but it appears that the search engine company is starting to think big.  Not Texas-big, perhaps, but Michigan-big.  It’s in this latter state that Google intends to roll out Google Apps for Education.

Keep WordPress From Overwriting .htaccess Rules

For as long As I care to remember I’ve been having issues with my Wordpress .htaccess file. .htaccess file is a small Apache file that lets you do all sorts of funky things with requests made to your server. It’s also one of SEO’s best tools. I have a lot of custom 301 redirects set up, including a redirect which makes my site available only…

Social Burnout: MySpace & Facebook

One question online community operators wrestle with is how many communities (social networks, blogs, forums, wikis, etc.) one individual can participate in.