Ahhhhhhhhh… Meebo
TypePad has been down – they are slowly republishing posts. I guess this means you will all get new old feeds from Larkey… Sorry. Stuff happens. Zoundry still not working either – I’m guessing that has something to do with "the TypePad thing". I know the TypePad team is probably working hard to fix this.
I’m remain a big recommender of TypePad – they should have me on commission. Is it that bad? Not really – especially given I can’t hold a mobile phone call between the office and home. I can’t hold a Windows session for more than a day. And my Sony VAIO is as noisy as the neighbors air conditioning system.
Saying that, basing service level satisfaction on how bad others are is never a good thing. So my message the TypePad is simple – the bar is low, stop letting it hit you in the head. We are with you and love what you enable us to do. But you’ve got to start leaping over that bar. Otherwise we will become users, not evangelists.
So, to brighten up my day I’ve been playing with other things and I do like Meebo. This, unlike TypePad, is a beta so it has some quirks (if you close the browser you have to re-enter all the usernames and passwords… + more)… But then TypePad has some quirks now and then. Meebo has a ton of promise.
Cool Skype Phones…
One of these for Christmas please… Have been hunting for a Skype phone that supports Mac and these look great.
The Elements Of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
Worth a read… a classic applied to the Web. Richard describes it as follows:
Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field. Indeed the renowned typographer Hermann Zapf proclaims the book to be
a must for everybody in the graphic arts, and especially for our new friends entering the field.In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in HTML and CSS. The future is considered with coverage of CSS3, and practicality is ever present with workarounds, alternatives and compromises for less able browsers.
Got Puggle…
Thanks to Stowe for The top ten “buzz words” to be added to the T9 dictionary (a predictive text input dictionary for users to tap into when texting on their mobile phones):
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Lifehack – a tool or technique that makes some aspect of one’s life easier or more efficient
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Mashup – new information created by combining data from two different sources
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Placeshift – to redirect a TV signal so the viewer can watch a show on a device other than his or her television
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Playlistism – judging a person based on what songs are on the playlist of his or her digital music player
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Podjack – to plug the cord of one’s digital music player into the jack of another person’s player to hear what the person is listening to
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Puggle – a dog bred from a pug and a beagle
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Sideload – to transfer music or other content to a cell phone using the cell phone provider’s network
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Vlog – a blog that contains mostly video content
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Vodcast – a video podcast
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Ubersexual – a heterosexual man who is masculine, confident, compassionate and stylish
Blog Tools | Week 2
A week or so ago I wrote about my journey into the world of Blog tools for Windows. Here is where I am at:
- Uninstalled Newsgator. Just too complex, too slow and too hard to figure out. While none of the blog clients really fulfill the way I live in the blogosphere – or its hyperconnected nature, Newzcrawler is working well for me. I’m also using Firefox more to grab and read the top ten blogs I follow.
- Uninstalled Qumana. I’m loving Zoundry. Nice application and does everything I could want it to and more. Misses on a few fronts – like being able to specify a font size and easily manage cut and paste formatting. And no spellchecker. But it is still good.
