Archive for the 'Nibbles' Category

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

When you distill things down, Trackback and Pingback are all about self-promotion. An unselfish form of Trackback is a blogging myth because the only truly selfless contribution to a conversation is to just leave a comment with no mention of your own website.
The reason there are so many “I linked to this” trackbacks is […]

Successful Writing and Idea Pitching

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005

Stephen King will tell you Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully. After you write your best-selling novel, Scott Berkun will tell you How to Pitch an Idea.

Comment Spammer Interviewed

Monday, January 31st, 2005

theregister.co.uk has a short interview with a comment spammer.

Post Secret

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

While I read PostSecret, I said to myself, “There’s no good reason to continue reading this.” Then after I finished it, I looked for more.

Google Releases Adwords API

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Google has released an API interface for their Adwords program, using Soap 1.1. It looks like it provides access to all the features of the existing user interface, but no api access to the keyword sandbox.
They implemented transaction quotas based on dollars spent by Adwords accounts registered under your developer id. If you use […]

Peek Inside Amazon DevCon

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

There’s some cool stuff over at Amazon Web Services Blog. Amazon is blogging their Developer’s Conference as it happens with a live forum where you can post questions to speakers.