Monkinetic Weblog

Remember when blogs were more casual and conversational? Before a posts purpose was to grab search engine clicks or to promise 99 Answers to Your Problem That Were Telling You Youre Having. Yeah. Id like to get back to that here. -- Dan Cederholm

This Javascript Tools bundle for Textmate totally saved my sanity while debugging a recent javascript bug. Best feature: it can run a selected section of Javascript code in Textmate's webkit-based Preview window.

Some of you may have noticed links around here starting to point to a new domain: www.monkinetic.com. Well, today I finally pushed the Big Red Button that directs all traffic from redmonk.net over to monkinetic.com. In some ways this is a bittersweet moment for me - I still feel a close personal connection to the redmonk moniker (though this site fell from first place in the google war long ago). I first started using 'monkinetic' as the blog title back when I was trying to make redmonk.net into a business site (ca. 2003 I think) and the name stuck. I've grown to love it, and I'm glad to finally be giving it it's own domain!

I logged into Get Satisfaction recently (using an OpenID of course), and something about this simple act got me thinking. Ive got two accounts on Get Satisfaction - one using my personal account, and one using my work account. One of the features of OpenID is that you can maintain multiple identities (one might say they tend to proliferate too easily, considering the number of providers coming online) and use them for various purposes.

Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again.

>My favorite app is the App Store. A particularly foolish study a few months ago discoveredhorrors!that most people stop using new apps after only a few days. Wow! These users spent 30 minutes wandering the aisles of the app store, then several hours playing with their new toy, and, after three days, abandoned it. And here they were out a full 99 cents!

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>This is a brilliant ad campaign from Verizon. The "there's a map for that" slogan is cute, but the "Before you pick a phone, pick a network" slogan sounds like common sense and works directly to Verizon's advantage. They're selling their strength (the network) instead of spinning their weakness (their lineup of phones). The ad works because it's true.

(Ok, so I can't get away from the Six Apart / A List Apart puns (cf A Move Apart). Sorry.)

Typepad announced support for Pubsubhubub. I predict on Twitter that we will bridge it with rssCloud so support of one will get you compatibility with th'other.

Dave adds Atom 1.0 support to his software. No big deal unless you were around in the tech industry about 7-8 years ago, and were anywhere near the RSS/ATOM flame wars. As one sage said "then again, let's not go there. 'Tis a silly place." Thanks Dave!

If whoever wrote up the description of then new (and AWESOME) LEGO Town Fire Brigade set isn't totally baiting the AFOL crowd, I'm a monkey's uncle:

The Daily Exhaust:

Gordon Ramsay may be a jerk on his TV show "Hell's Kitchen", but he can cook a killer scrambled egg breakfast. I made these yesterday, had them on sourdough toast, and while they were too rich in the morning for my kids and wife, I'd happily stuff my arteries with these awesome eggs any day.

This is the story of a boy becoming a man, then a boy again.