http://zeppox.net/weblog Doing the things a web geek does Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:08:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I'm taking a break from this blog and am enjoying some time with something more... WYSIWYG. [jacksonfox.vox.com](http://jacksonfox.vox.com) http://zeppox.net/weblog/2006/07/zzzzzz Juice is better when it is fizzy. Examples: * [IZZE](http://www.izze.com/) * [The Switch](http://www.switchbev.com/) http://zeppox.net/weblog/2006/04/axiom Here's the rundown: * Bagel egg sandwich for breakfast from one of the 45 delis within sight of the hotel * More conference! * Met someone who knew about Lulu! * Walked over to Central Park * Taxi to the airport * Went home http://zeppox.net/weblog/2006/03/nyc-day-3 Very late, will be brief: * Attended conference, not bad... * Bad ass dinner at [Mesa Grill](http://www.mesagrill.com) * Late-night snack with [Robert Scoble](http://flickr.com/photos/jacksonfox/105694184/) * Later-night chat with Scoble, Danny Sullivan from SEW and Matt Cutts of Google Things seen: * Times Square * Pastrami sandwich * Cheesecake * Rockefeller Center (briefly) * 5th Avenue (parts) * New york Public Library (in ... http://zeppox.net/weblog/2006/02/nyc-day-2-in-brief So, I'm in NYC for the Search Engine Strategies conference, and we (myself and co-workers) took the oppurtunity afforded us by our early flight to do some touristy stuff. The first thing we did was hit the MOMA (it was only two blocks from our hotel) to see all the ... http://zeppox.net/weblog/2006/02/some-of-the-high-points-from-my-day-in-new-york-city Since [Anton](http://mistersugar.com/) had to attend a public health lecture, I took over as group notetaker. [Josh Staiger](http://www.joshstaiger.org/), myself, [Roy Kim](http://tabulas.com/~roy), [Steve Cory](http://stevecory.blogspot.com/) and [Brian Russell](http://audioactivism.org) got together and talked about * tagging (Roy wondered if you could add heirarchy to tags) * [Google](http://www.google.com) (and the programming languages they use) * [Google pages](http://pages.google.com) (which ... http://zeppox.net/weblog/2006/02/chapel-hill-bloggers-meetup-2232006 [Love in the time of TiVo](http://news.com.com/Love+in+the+time+of+TiVo/2100-1041_3-6039433.html?tag=sas.email): > Mitch, a 23-year-old tech consultant whose favorites were "Lost," "West Wing" and "Natalie Portman," was desperately silly to find at least one of the women on his list by the end of the night. After winning a free TiVo box and lifetime service in ... http://zeppox.net/weblog/2006/02/my-brother-is-famous-not-really Holy crap, you can get the first part of Battlestar Galactica season 2 on DVD already?! Didn't they show these episodes like two months ago? I can now watch BSG on Sci-Fi, then download the episode on iTunes, and then buy the DVD on Amazon within weeks of each other. ... http://zeppox.net/weblog/2006/02/bsg-dvd-asap I have too many accounts. I can't keep track of them anymore. I sign-up and try virtually every online service I find. Particularly weblogs, email offerings and feed readers. Is there a self-help group for people who have 15 email addresses? A sampling: * [MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/jacksonfox) * Facebook * [LiveJournal](http://jacksonfox.livejournal.com/) * [WordPress.com](http://jacksonfox.wordpress.com/) * [Tabulas](http://tabulas.com/~jacksonfox) * TypePad * [GMail](mailto:jacksonfox@gmail.com), Google ... http://zeppox.net/weblog/2006/02/too-damn-many [A Survey of Electronic Note-Taking Behavior in Information and Library Science Student](http://hdl.handle.net/1901/229) : > A survey of graduate students in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was conducted to evaluate the adoption of digital technology for note-taking in classrooms. Previous work ... http://zeppox.net/weblog/2005/11/and-lo-it-was-done