Give Vox a Try

I understand the appeal of the big online social networks (MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, etc.) conceptually but have never really embraced them personally.  I just don't use them. 

Part of it is that I'm too old for most of them.  But mostly I find them  uninteresting. 

So I'm sort of surprised by my own interest in the social networking site Vox.   What makes Vox intriguing to me is that it isn't really a social networking site –...

Four Great Internet Phenomena

Ever now and then something hits the Internet and spreads like wildfire.  Below are four such phenomena I've come across recently that I figured I'd share.

(1) Million Dollar Homepage

On August 26, 2005, English college student Alex Tew launched the Million Dollar Homepage as a way to fund his education....

Random Thoughts Larry King Style (9/14/2006)

The George Allen campaign has launched a blog.  Anything they do online is just more material for Wonkette at this point…Scott Baradell from Idea Grove has a great post on 101 Ways to Brew Up a Great Idea.  Going to Vegas is by far the best suggestion…Joe Lieberman's campaign has quietly disabled comments on their blog. ...

Lieberman Campaign Launches Blog

In a pretty gutsy move, Joe Lieberman’s campaign launched a blog with open comments right at two months before the election.

And in the least suprising development pretty much ever, open warfare has broken out in the comments area of the blog between Lieberman supporters/haters.

I think this would have worked a lot better had it launched before the online discussion around this race had gotten so poisonous....

Some Things I Learned About Our Blog (and Blogs in General) from Crazy Egg

Crazy Egg is a pretty cool tool that allows you to see visually how people are using your website (what page elements they are clickign one). Read a full review of Crazy Egg on Techcrunch here.

Seeing as how we build websites for a living, we implemented it on our blog homepage as a way of giving it a test drive....