How I Use

  • Create a website for your small business

    I will be teaching a class called “Create a website for your small business” at DevCorp North next month: Learn how to create & maintain a professional website for yourself or your small business at DevCorp North, 1557 W. Howard Street. This is a hands-on class where you will learn and do at the same…

  • How I Use: NYT Anonymity Project

    UPDATE, January 16, 2009: This post is good for finding out *why* I’m doing the NYT Anonymity Project, but it has the wrong methodology. See the NYT Anonymity Feed post for current method and NYT Anonymity Feed Yahoo! Pipe (archive.org link) for current relevant excerpts from and links to articles that have information from an…

  • Yahoo! Buzz Index for Insights

    I like sideways ways to get information. I subscribe to the straight-news methods– Google Alerts, Yahoo! Keyword Alerts, Technorati, meme sites, etc. And they work. But the sideways stuff– original, first-hand research that tells you things that you wouldn’t know from normal sources– is the real deal. My CTA Alerts is an example. Its purpose…

  • Sample Feedburner BuzzBoost CSS

    Feedburner is an excellent (Chicago-based) service that is providing a huge bump for how RSS feeds are shared, tracked, consumed, and monetized. One of the best features is BuzzBoost, which allows you to render RSS feeds in HTML– headlines, full posts, whatever you want. The instructions for how to get past the default styling (indented…

  • Windows Live Custom Domains

    So when I heard about Google’s new domain email service, I got pretty excited. I need this service lots of times. I register a lot of goofy domains and often map them directly to TypePad to serve up sites. I register over at GoDaddy and don’t bother purchasing email hosting. I’m not geeky enough to…