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You got your Treo in my custom RSS feed

Aug 12, 2005 |

I've been talking a lot about RSS on this site for some time now. And lately I've been talking about Treos too. Now you can have both great flavours in one thanks to this little demo of how the best sources of custom RSS feeds can help you find everything you want to...

My kingdom for a link*

Aug 9, 2005 |

Rob thinks my new comment form is lame and desperate. I say, maybe he would reassert some claim to even participating in our rank war if he actually deployed a little strategy himself. As any politician knows, you've got to ask people for their vote. And any...

Drupalled

Aug 9, 2005 |

OK, I'm officially drinking the Drupal Koolaid. Boris skyped me through the process of putting our doc on choosing the telecentre.org platform right into the Drupal handbook itself. Now I feel all Drupally and won't be able to sleep.

On not getting things done

Aug 8, 2005 |

My explorations of Treo software, switching aware from Entourage, Voodoopad and Tinderbox have plunged me into the seamy underworld of Getting Things Done -- or GTD to its fans. I find myself intrigued, if not seduced, and it's all-to-easy to imagine leafing my way...

Powerblogher questions: on tagging, bookmarking and wikis

Aug 8, 2005 |

Debra Roby, one of the folks at our powerbloghers session, blogged & emailed with these questions: Tagging. why should I care? and how do I do it? Social bookmarking. same question. Setting up a wiki?? Where, why and most importantly how?? Let me tackle each one in...

Powerbloghers, please stand up

Aug 8, 2005 |

Last weekend I presented an Advanced Tools session at Blogher, which didn't work out exactly as planned since we lost our Internet connection in minute 2 of the session. But the very generous and eager crowd bore with our reversion to flipcharts, and we made it...

The perfect note app for a post-Entourage world

Aug 8, 2005 |

The extremely fabulous Leda Dederich asked me about how I'd handle tasks and notes after my switch from Entourage to Apple apps. I was worried about losing "Tasks" too. Turns out they're built into iCal! So no worries there. Re: Notes, it's a little more complicated....

Healing the world with RSS

Aug 6, 2005 |

If you need to compare or evaluate different content management system (CMS) options -- especially for non-profits or for distributed networks that share content via RSS and tags -- check out the results of my recent work on choosing a platform for telecentre.org....