sotto.org

What is twitter good for?

Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

A question I ask myself time and again. You can add Facebook to that as well.

Fiction Writing 2.0

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 at 2:32 pm


Patrick Stewart/JibJab Mashup

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

Best 2006 Yahoo Hack Day hack I’ve seen(funniest anyway). The hacker/presenter absolutely rocks. Kudos bars.

Sugar ma.gnolia

Saturday, February 18th, 2006 at 9:24 am

“ma.gnolia”:http://ma.gnolia.com: a feature mashup of social bookmarking, tags, “orkut”:http://www.orkut.com groups, “spurl”:http://spurl.net page archiving and pretty design = crazy “del.icio.us”:http://del.icio.us. No Opera bookmarklet love unfortunately.

A Perfectly Good Buzzword in Flames

Saturday, January 21st, 2006 at 5:20 pm

For people who’ve been in the software/web biz a longish time, “Zeldman’s diatribe”:http://www.alistapart.com/articles/web3point0 about the moniker regurgitation cycle resonates, but only so long as it sounds like you’re spreading wisdom and not just being a jackass. My favorite spot-the-fsck-on money quote:
But ours is a medium in which, more often than not, big teams have slowly [...]

9 pieces of Web 2.0 flair

Friday, January 6th, 2006 at 6:00 pm

Following the “recipe for a Web 2.0 layout”:http://mentalized.net/journal/2005/10/10/building_your_very_own_web20_layout/, let’s do a site check of sotto.org:
* *XHTML*? _check_
* *White background*? _yup_
* *Arial font (Helvetica or Lucida Grande on the Mac)*? _now yer talkin’_
* *Big headlines with custom letter-spacing*? _mmhhmm_
* *List navigation*? _oh yeah_
* *Highlights*? _nope_
* *Gradient*? _nope, but I had it on the “old design”:mtindex.php so [...]