I have about 100 Chrome bookmarks, and I try to visit at least 2 or 3 of them a day to make sure I’m not missing something. But even as I do that, I do it with a private irritation that they don’t have an RSS feed.

Yeah, me too. Except for the bit about checking Chrome bookmarks, because life is too short.

I was hesitating to blog about it because I was embarrassed at how my website looked. This is it, I thought. If it has gotten so bad that I avoid blogging because I don’t want people to be reminded of how old my website looks, I need to get my shit together and fix this, I told myself.

Isn't that the most perfect reason of all?

I haven't used the library myself, but I'm glad to know it is there.

Yay! That is all.

The madness of some markets.

In a nutshell ...

Once Google set the plot point, backlinks became hard to ignore. And marketers looking to get an edge started using a variety of tactics to gain a coveted spot on the front page that didn’t involve actually creating good content that people want to read.

Tim Bray, reflecting on the numbers for his Bye Amazon post.

But aren’t blogs dead? · Um, nope. For every discipline-with-depth that I care about (software/Internet, politics, energy economics, physics), if you want to find out what’s happening and you want to find out from first-person practitioners, you end up reading a blog.

Was true, is true, will be true.

I know everybody and her mother have already linked this and bookmarked it, but I want it here for myself, because there is some good stuff in this list.