I mentioned Microsoft / MSN / Hotmail's recent initiative SNDS a few days ago. At the time I hadn't really had the opportunity to explore it and was finding the navigation around it quite annoying (ie. I couldn't find what I was looking for easily, so I got bored and left). I've since has some time to explore the interface a bit more and, while I do believe it could be improved … [Read more...] about SNDS – Microsoft Helps ISPs Combat Spam
A Million Bloggers Blogging
Janine mentioned the One Million Blogs project the other day which I spotted while reading the planet. For one dollar you can get a 30x30 square! One dollar is under 90 cent, so it's less than you pay for a bad coffee. I think it's a really cool idea :) … [Read more...] about A Million Bloggers Blogging
Design Theft
If you want to setup a blog using Wordpress, or any of the other popular blog packages, you will probably get bored with the default template fairly quickly. However it's not that hard to find an alternative template. There are plenty of them out there to cater for most tastes. … [Read more...] about Design Theft
Applying Linguistics to Domains
Anthony Van Couvering posts an interesting article examining the DomainsBot study on the parts of speech found in 4304 domains sold on Afternic. … [Read more...] about Applying Linguistics to Domains
Things Not to Blog About
There's a lot of talk about what you should be blogging about, but what about the things you should not mention? Bodily functions - and I don't meant the "I'm not feeling very well" type posts What you really think of your partner - if they know you at all, they can probably read your blog What you really think of your boss Your next big idea before you've actually … [Read more...] about Things Not to Blog About