Bob Morris Posted on Wed May 8, 2013 14:41 pm.
PC magazine columnist John Dvorak had access to two of his websites blocked by Chrome and Firefox last week, based on a blacklist from Google. This is done at the browser level and is very difficult to change because Google essentially has no way for websites to ask questions and get a fast response. You must [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Sat Apr 27, 2013 18:37 pm.
The new theme has a slider at the top for featured articles. The sidebar is a full column to begin with then splits into two smaller columns. Lots more too. Let me know what you think and if you notice any glitches. I went from the trusty Atahualpa theme, which I will continue to use [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:45 am.
Newsblur is an RSS Reader like Google Reader. I’m using Newsblur now and paying $2 a month for the full version. It’s powerful, useful,and I can read my 400+ feeds fast. Plus, it’s open source. Imagine his surprise when Google announced they were killing Reader and then Newsblur activity went stratospheric. That’s right, “his”, Newsblur [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:56 am.
A website emailed me, saying their site had been revamped and was now filled with such wonderfulness that would I please delete my icky link to their awesomeness lest their rankings become contaminated. I emailed then saying: “Polizeros has a Google Page rank of 5, the highest it gets for small sites. Yours has a [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Sat Mar 16, 2013 6:00 am.
Google apparently is gobsmacked by the rage emanating from elite, savvy corners of the net over their sudden and arrogant decision to kill Google Reader, their RSS feed reader. The corporate surprise adds to the decision itself to paint a picture of a company dangerously adrift from a real understanding of its audience, and the [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Mar 14, 2013 4:45 am.
Google is shutting down Google Reader, their RSS feed reader that allows news from hundreds of sites to be read in one place. Sure, RSS is probably dying but still, there’s no other way to put so much news in one place. Also, by killing Reader, Google has alienated their core audience of geeks and [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Mar 13, 2013 21:24 pm.
Google has pissed off millions of geeks, their core users and defenders, by announcing that Google Reader will be shut down. Netflix tried the same type of thing in 2011 when they said DVDs would no longer be available by mail and were forced to eat their words and rescind a few months later. Google [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:23 pm.
Join us at Not The Singularity with channels on Culture, Gaming, Tech, Politics, and WoW. We’d like to announce the formal launch of the Not The Singularity blog. We’ve been working hard on it for the past couple of weeks, finalizing the look and making sure there was enough content already there for readers, and [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Mar 8, 2013 9:05 am.
Join Steve Hynd, Matthew Elliot, Josh Mull, Steve Wollett, myself, and more at Not The Singularity, with channels for Culture, Gaming, Tech, Politics, and WoW. I’m doing Tech. Steve is from Newshoggers and recently was Editor at The Agonist. Josh, Steve and I did a political podcast for a while. Matt blogs at Bastard Logic [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Fri Dec 7, 2012 11:01 am.
Buffer lets you schedule tweets according to a schedule that you set, allowing your tweets to appear at an optimal time. Tweets at night generally get much less attention than tweets in the morning. With Buffer, you can schedule tweets at night to appear the next morning. This is a snap with their browser extension [...]
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