I've built a new site I'm experimenting with: kinetic energy. KE is based on Six Apart's new Motion codebase (python + django + typepad apis) and is generously hosted by strangecode. I don't get many non-spam comments here, b/c I'm a lazy blogger. :-) But this is a neat app and I wanted to play around with it. So check it out, post something you find interesting, and if I think so too maybe I'll repost it on the front of the site here!

Nothing to see here! Move along!

In this series of posts, I will be discussing these philosophies, as well as how NPR applied them and how we were able to do so much with so little (including our NPR API).

COPE [Create Once, Publish Everywhere - Ed.] is really a combination of several other closely related sub-philosophies, including:

• Build content management systems (CMS), not web publishing tools (WPT)
• Separate content from display
• Ensure content modularity
• Ensure content portability

He talks about clearing your life of posessions, how you should divide everything into four categories: 1. Beautiful things. 2. Things with emotional value. 3. Functional things. 4. Everything else.

Divide each category into the things you keep and the things you get rid of. In category 1, you can keep it if it's on display in your house, if you show it to your friends, if you share it. If not, then you don't need it, it's taking up space and time, which you're paying for with your money, time and health. Take a picture, put it on a thumb drive, take it everywhere with you and get rid of the original. In category 2, if it has a compelling story, one that you actually tell people, you can keep it. In category 3, unless it's very good at what it does and it does something you do a lot of, it goes. And of course everything in category 4 goes.

He says you shouldn't try to do this in normal times. Wait until a spouse dies, a divorce, a child is born or a child leaves home. Wait till you move. It pays to figure out now what you want to do when that time comes.

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!

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.

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!

via www.flickr.com

>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.