When you read a lot of things online, you run into some inconveniences pretty soon. First of all reading from a screen just isn’t ideal. I’m not sure what it is, the angle, the light or something else, but it’s more tiring and slower than reading from paper. I also do quite some reading on [...]
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Improving Your Online Reading with Readability (Redux)
August 12th, 2010 · View Comments · Linkfilter
Tags: readability
WordPress 3.0 is here: Thelonious
June 18th, 2010 · View Comments · Linkfilter
For software you could say: it’s not important how good it is it, it’s important how fast it is updated. These are all called the iterations of improving software and show how much effort a developer is putting into it’s product. WordPress has it both. The product is already very good, full featured and polished, [...]
Tags: wordpress
Create a News Paper Style Overview from Links of Your Twitter Friends
March 14th, 2010 · View Comments · Linkfilter
Perhaps you know and use Feedly, a sort of alternative interface for Google reader, which displays your feeds in a cool way that looks a little like a newspaper. But to use Feedly you have a Gogle Reader account and fill it with interesting feeds. Feedly does a good job in showing you the most [...]
Tags: feedly·news·twitter·twittertim.es
Somewhere, Somehow, This Is Art
November 19th, 2009 · View Comments · Linkfilter
Sometimes you run into something that you don’t really appreciate at first, but have to get accustomed to. There is this trend of so-called image macros, which basically are images with some text on them. Now when the same image keeps being used, with differing text, a new internet fad or meme is born. Advice [...]
Tags: advice dog·meme
My New Visual Tumblr Blog
November 16th, 2009 · View Comments · Linkfilter
I have tried to keep track of the websites where I have an account and share stuff on my Web Wide page. Now I have an addition. I made a Tumblr blog. Tumblr blogs are usually used for images or videos. You can also write blogposts with Tumblr, but thanks to the beautiful ready made [...]
Dial gdgt for gadgets
July 3rd, 2009 · View Comments · Linkfilter
Who doesn’t call him or herself a gadgetlover? Everybody likes to look at and touch shiny new phones, laptop or gaming devices, right? We all like to open a package and smelling the plasticky Taiwanese smell before it dissolves (alright this is getting weird). Anyway, there is a new gadget site where you can go [...]
Please Say Something, a short film
June 18th, 2009 · View Comments · Linkfilter
If you’ve got 10 minutes to spare please have a look at this award winning short film. Put on your headphones or loud speakers! Or even better, watch it in HD at vimeo. Please Say Something – Full Length from David OReilly on Vimeo. A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the [...]
Your very own democratic news site
June 11th, 2009 · View Comments · Linkfilter, Opinion
It are difficult times for newspapers. First the internet has taken over the function of marketplace and joblist from them and people went online for their news and opinion pieces. And now advertisers loose interest because there are less readers and these companies have less advertising budget. It’s hard to say what the future will [...]
Tags: 100twt·dave winer·tr.im·twitter
Tweeting Too Hard gives important tweets their deserved attention
May 23rd, 2009 · View Comments · Linkfilter
The website Tweeting Too Hard shows a collection of tweets, on which every visitor can vote. The purpose is that eventually the most ridiculous and arrogant tweets will emerge. This results in the following example gems: it makes me sad, the more I have success the more people don’t like me…. – by @iamsammis Went [...]
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A newer Friendfeed (and faster en better en prettier)
April 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Linkfilter, Opinion
Friendfeed is a one stop shop for all of your social network and news needs. It exists for about two years now and is steadily growing. When Facebook launched their redesign a couple of weeks ago they had copied a large part of the interface of Friendfeed. Now Friendfeed has got a redesign of its [...]
Tags: facebook·friendfeed·scobleizer·techcrunch·thomas hawk·twitter