Today marks the launch of The Internet Association , a laudable effort from a number of prominent Internet technology companies to address our industry’s hist...

Continuing from yesterday’s look at the soundtrack to the creation of Lotus Notes, we can look more at the physical space where it was created. For contrast,...

A few brief thoughts upon the announcement of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader: Given that even my most skeptical friends have literally been desperate for...

This is the second post in a series where I’m pointing out some nice little touches that take up less than a 100×100 pixel square on a screen. Today’s is the...

I enjoy links myself, so I thought you might want some too. Here, then: Graphs as art : Werner Vogels picks up the site graph meme with some nice visualiz...

Four years is a long time in pop music, but that’s how long it’s been since Justin Timberlake’s “Like I Love You” heralded his launch as a solo singer and...

Needless to say, after watching the first season of Lost as well as all the episodes of the season thus far, we’ve become fans of the series. I’m not a huge...

Looks like Amazon’s in the midst of a rollout of tags on product pages . It’s not the first dabbling Amazon’s done in the technology, of course, since they we...

It’s really weird that after years of kicking around the industry Lewis Taylor finally shows up, apparently charting in some places. It’s even been enough th...

So, the New York Times announced that they’re moving some content behind a paywall , and of course the chorus of “oh noes!” overshadowed any other messages th...

I guess ad space on blogs is worth something. Remember back when Google wouldn’t let bloggers run AdSense on their sites? Now they’re spamming people to convi...

Steven’s lament is particularly timely for me… If you’ve been waiting on an email from me at any time since Friday night, my apologies, as I’ve been having t...

It’s been a few years since I had a dot-com that I really, really liked. Sure, we’ve had Amazon and Google looking out for us these past few years, but it was...

So, who’s got the plugin that makes Tivo spit out a list of favorites to Amazon’s web service in order to make suggestions?...

Someone’s been spamming comment forms on weblogs with an Amazon affiliate link to Meg, Matt and Paul’s book, " We Blog ". You can see examples here...

Jane advocates improving the intelligence of the Amazon Gold Box , but I say no! I like that it’s so random. Though it has been getting better, recognizin...

I don’t usually do the whole geek gear thing, but holy poop I am love this shiny toy ....

After being inspired by trying to help Matt in his struggles to add the “currently listening to:” item on his site, I added a Now Playing box over there on t...

Phew! Michael really went for it. Amazon rocking XHTML is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, valid CSS, and meets both Section 508 and WAI 1.0 specs. Very impre...

For those who claim full-scale, complex e-commerce sites can’t be done in valid HTML, here’s a copy of Amazon’s homepage , in valid HTML 4.0 Transitional . I...

I’ve been thinking about this one for a while: I want to be able to import all of the birthdays for the people on my Amazon Friends and Favorites list into m...

As part of my recurring effort (no, not really, I’ve never done this before…) to show you the back stories of webloggers who have linked to me, I have dug up s...

It’s incredibly inaccurate to name a site BitchLog when the site’s proprietor is as sweet and kind as Jenifer has been to me. But it’s a catchy name, and, ev...

Wow, you people are the best. I take back all the nasty things I said. Since my pathetic little whining about Amazon trusted friends went up the day before y...

"I was looking for a book on disposing of a body, but this should do just fine." It’s all well and good to be smart and nice. But funny, too? Andr...

Thanks to Amazon.com�s Associate program, if you use this page to buy my book from Amazon they pay me a commission that�s more than I earn on the royalty fro...

I want the new Jonatha Brooke album. If you buy it for me , I’ll be your best friend....

Ok, I have a sooper big secret for you all, don’t tell anyone. Ready? Take a look: It reminds me of Jason talking about how someday old-timers would...

Some perspective: an interesting Netcraft report on Business Models for the Web , originally from May, 1995. Wonderful how much of the advice is still useful,...

Okay, now I know I had talked about standardizing website navigation a few days ago, since Apple and Amazon and everyone else have tabs on their sites now. B...

I’ll be your best friend if you buy me this ....

Now that we’ve all decided (or had decided for us) that our websites will either be Yahoo portals or Amazon tab-tops, can we develop and debug a set of SSI, CG...

Idea: Once broadband is more widespread, how about some javascript (or maybe a browser add-in) that adds meta-data to the tooltip on a link? Something like...