Paul Jacobson

Category: Web/Tech

  • links for 2007-03-28

    Six Apart – News and Events Interesting news items including Vox, OpenID and blogging from the Six Apart blog (tags: vox blogging news openid anildash sixapart) stii.za.net » Blog Archive » How healthy is the SA blogging community? 😉 (tags: sablogcommunity sablogs spam)

  • Mail & Guardian’s new daily podcast

    Mail & Guardian has just launched a new daily podcast called the Lunchtime News Wrap. So what is this podcast all about: The M&G Online provides a short midday podcast of the main news stories of the day, Monday to Friday, covering local, international, business, sport and Africa news. The episodes are pretty short (around…

  • I would like to take this opportunity to thank my wife …

    Without my wife my posts would have even worse spelling and frightening grammatical mistakes so I would like to take this opportunity to thank her for her feedback. To the extent these posts read well, it is due to her editing and to the extent my posts can like to read kak, it is my…

  • Experimenting with OpenID

    I am experimenting with OpenID on some of my blogs. Those of you who have OpenIDs can basically log in using your OpenIDs in the space provided. The interface isn’t looking too pretty at the moment but the functionality is there. I’d love to know whether this is the sort of thing you would like…

  • Enough with the Twitter updates …

    Ask a Ninja says enough with the Twitter updates and something about 10 years. I removed the video because the controls weren’t popping up and the auto play was driving me nuts I had to share this with you all after a hectic last few weeks of awards and Twitter chatter. (Source: the prolific Scoble)…

  • We need more “whiney bastards” in the SA blogosphere

    I just had a chat with Vincent about the Awards debate and we pretty much came to the conclusion that the real cause for concern is probably (most likely) not the processes that were employed in the voting and judging stages but rather what was (or wasn’t) said about them.  There are people who become…

  • Imagine … multi-touch tablets

    I was skimming this article on Apple Insider about rumours of a "mega platform" based on Apple’s multi-touch interface that we saw on the upcoming iPhone.  It got me thinking about my ideal machine and when I think about the possible application of the multi-touch interface combined with substantial storage, both on the device and…

  • Feeds you won’t do without

    I am editing my feeds and am adding feeds which are really solid feeds to have and without which my experience of the content available on the Live Web would be less than it could be.  Can you recommend feeds?  Which feeds would you absolutely not be without? Tags: indispensible feeds, feeds you would not…