My latest bicycle project is a green 1968 Raleigh Sports. We have this great resale center in town and I troll through their bicycles fairly often to look for projects. “Big bikes” are only $20. I restored a 1968 Schwinn three speed for my daughter this summer (purple, her favorite color no less) and I found this green, mostly rust…
Author: fioritto
Seeded search
AKMA is on to something here. I don’t have time right now to fully dig into this, but I’m interested to see how his experiment works. More information at Eurekster.com.
My wiki was (w)hacked
I setup a wiki on my server some time ago to get some experience with the software. I used it initially to track some research I was doing on product development and photo agencies. I “protected” it from view by using a password-protected directory and since I wasn’t keeping any sensitive information there I wasn’t really worried about people snooping…
Links: 2005-10-27
Mondo Times, the worldwide media directory – Over 15,000 newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations at Mondo TimesPosted: 2005-10-27T20:28:07Z (categories: magazines media mediafinder newspapers )
Ethan Zuckerman, Geekcorps.org and Global Voices
I admire the work that the volunteers of Geekcorps have done over the years. A former colleague of mine, Bosco So, was a volunteer on their first project in Ghana. I was surprised when I ran across his name a few years ago on their site. Bosco not only has a very cool name, he was also one of the…
Links: 2005-10-20
Daring Fireball: MarkdownPosted: 2005-10-20T13:57:48Z (categories: blogs emacs markdown text )
Links: 2005-10-18
Broadway Bicycle School, Cambridge, MA – A Unique Bike ShopPosted: 2005-10-18T23:09:25Z (categories: bicycle )
Links: 2005-10-17
3-Speed UpdatePosted: 2005-10-17T00:42:57Z (categories: bicycle )
Jakob Nielsen’s Weblog Usability: How do I stack up?
I’m sitting here tweaking my comment and archive pages and waiting for the site to rebuild and ran across Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox column, “Weblog Usability: The top ten design mistakes” and I thought I’d take a look and see how this site stacks up. O.K., here we go: 1. No Author Biographies I have a bio, but it is…
Ross Mayfield’s notes from wikisym
Ross Mayfield has posted some notes from Ward Cunningham’s speech at wikisym. Here’s a foundational quote by Ward on the impact of wikis: My hope is that wiki becomes a totem for a way of interacting with people. Tradition in the work world has been more top down, while wiki, standing for the Internet, is becoming a model for a…