Archive for the 'internet' Category

“friends”

January 3rd, 2009

i just went through my facebook “friends” and removed some people. it’s nothing personal, i just think that friend should mean something… and maybe that something is that we’ve actually spoken in the past 10 years?
“spoken” could even mean that we chat with instant messaging.
spoken does not mean that we play status update racquetball on [...]


subscribe to the things you want to read

June 2nd, 2008

apparently not too many people know this:
you can subscribe to specific authors from the New York Times using RSS.
According to my Google Reader “Feed Details”, 2.1 million people subscribe to the Times’ home page.
but only 22 specifically subscribe to Thomas Friedman’s column.
I like information. But the Times homepage posts an average of 335 posts a [...]