Comment Ordering: First-to-Last or Last-to-First?

USA Today has an interesting post on their Community Center blog about their decision to post the latest comments on articles and blog entries first.  Most blogs (including this one) post comments in chronological order instead of reverse chronological.  Here is USA Today's explanation of the decision:

As development continued,...

My Top 5 Blogging Tools

The excellent Pro Blogger has a post up asking reader's to list their top 5 blogging tools.  I started to write my list in the comments, but I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone and make it a full blog post.

So here are my top 5 blogging tools:

(1) WordPress

WordPress is the best blogging platform for my money because it is easy to use,...

Link Roundup (3/13/2007)

(1) Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design

Tantek Celik of Technorati explains that Twitter is successful in part  because it requires a lot less key strokes than blogging or email. 

(2) John Edwards has 792 Twitter Friends  

I continue to think Twitter is going to be the next big thing....

The USA Today Website Launch

Mark Glaser from Mediashift has a good breakdown of the reader reaction to the recent relaunch of the USA Today website.  As background, USA Today's new site contains a lot of great social features but longtime site visitors have reacted negatively. 

Below is an excerpt of a comment I left on Mark's post:

I think there may be a lesson to be learned though in how to roll these things out....

Who is the Online Politician of the Year?

I was catching up on my feed reading and came across this interesting post by Bush-Cheney e-campaign veteran Mike Turk.  Paraphasing wildly, Turk thinks the entire poli-tech community is focusing too much on how the Presidential candidates are using the latest technologies (Facebook, YouTube, etc.) instead of whether they are developing strategies that will actually win elections. ...