John's Xanga Blog: "By the way, a little tip: if you do ask for help in my comments, it doesn't help your cause to leave me zero eprops and tell me that Xanga sucks. It doesn't really bother me anymore, but I don't exactly find it very motivating."

Find A Grave.com has Live Chat.

This morning I read that Ford is pulling the plug on it's TH!NK electric car. I was disappointed until I saw that they're going to release a Hybrid SUV, the Escape HEV, next year. Cool!

Monsur rocks. He showed me how to make an "add to wish list" button for my book (click it!). Monsur knows things. He also helped me with the book.

Web Soup by Biz Stone. I'm still working on it but the idea is there.

Biz Stone, Genio Check me out in Spanish. Thanks to Google's beta translator. Nice.

I interviewed for a job recently and I told my youngest sister who is still in high school that if I get the job then she can have my g3 notebook. Is it because I'm a nice older brother or is it because I need an excuse to get a new iBook? Only Frank Sinatra knows and sadly, he has passed on.

Top 5 reasons to upgrade to a Blog*Spot Plus hosting plan. You can also "create an about page, a photo gallery, or any other type of page you want" but I don't think those are powered by Blogger. Or are they? That would be very interesting.

A Media Relations employee at the Church of Scientology asked John of Microcontent News for a link to their response to his Church v. Google articles. The snippet he posted makes the connection that people who post anti-Scientology "propoganda" on the internet are merely an online version of terrorists (she compares them to the Al Qaeda.) Official Genius Labs take: she is wrong. Nice. I like having official "takes."

Blog On Building Online Communities with Web Logs by the creator of the 'How to Do Everything' concept. I like that concept. (via)

Wil Wheaton writes about how it sucks to spend your life auditioning and about how a blog can help you define yourself. "I began to write more and more. It's all here on WWDN. I can see my writing style change, as I find my voice, and figure out what I want to say, and how I want to say it."

A weblog provider with a revenue model? (besides licensing) The brainiacs at Xanga are spinning Amazon's Web Services into potential gold. This is how it works: a cool new toy lets users easily add a "currently reading (playing, watching)" module to their blog via the "Xangazon Search." Then, affiliated revenue generated from the over 3 million page views is profit for Xanga. But wait... premium users can sign up to have their modules auto-affiliatized. It's gorgeous! Not ready yet, but scheduled for release very soon.

Two things: European Web host 123-Reg has announced that it will feature Site Builder, a low-cost Web site building service developed using the Trellix publishing platform, and the University of Saskatchewan Campus Computer Store links to my blog. Viva la Canada!

I clicked a button on Meg's blog and her book was instantly in my Amazon shopping cart. Wow! I guess I'm buying it when I check out. That might be a while, I've also got an iBook in there. Wishful shopping.

If you've ever surfed a blog and thought: "Man, I wish I could get this blog emailed to me." Well, Bloglet's new FeedMe! bookmarklet is all you. Instantly subscribe yourself to any page with RSS or RSS Autodiscovery (free Bloglet membership required.)

With so many people looking for jobs, especially in Boston (myself included), now would be a great time for Amazon to start offering a job hunting service. I could look for jobs and pretend I'm shopping. Nice.

Maybe I should call it This Week on the Living Web. I'm still tweaking.

GoogleMail is an email interface to Google. Just email google@capeclear.com with the text of your query in the subject line and you'll receive your search results via email. Cool stuff.

I'm experimenting with two things. A new CMS and an idea for a weekly column. Check it out: This Week on The Web.

Wi-Fi and free lunches: "When people go downtown, they naturally expect the local infrastructure to include streetlights, fire hydrants and parking spaces. Soon, I believe, they also will expect Wi-Fi connectivity. Sitting on a city park bench and checking e-mail will not seem so strange; in fact, it will be something people demand. "

High-speed internet access at Starbucks must be cool for people who live in apartments above the cafe. If there are any. I'm drinking coffee right now and my internet access doesn't seem any faster than normal.

Paper Mag Sprouts From Book Zine This is really cool and it's not just magazines either. One of the books I worked on when I was at St. Martin's/Griffin, Useless Knowledge, was published partly because the author's site has over 150,000 subscribers.

This just in: Pyra bent on world domination. First stop, Blogger Brasil. Pyra has licensed and customized a version of Blogger for huge media company Globo.

"It is crucial not to spam bloggers and to be aware of their likes and dislikes before you drop them a line." This and other helpful hints for mining the "latest type of online media vehicle" for "valuable PR opportunities." Pitching Blogs.

BizBlogThis! Links created with this bookmarklet will open in new windows. To install:drag to your toolbar.

Jakob Nielsen wants users to be able to Control Font Size. My Mac IE 5.1 has buttons for this although, Jakob's right, they aren't part of the default toolbar. Alternatively, some people reading this post may like to know that they can hold down the command key and type "+" or "-" to change the font size in Mac IE 5.1.

The Look at Me project started with a few photos found in a Paris street in 1998. These photos were either lost, forgotten, or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. What a cool site. (MeFi)

Amazon Chat is a new service accessible from some of Amazon's most popular category pages. The service allows customers to chat with each other in real-time about their experiences with related products.

Filip Stoj of Digital Thread requested a version of BlogThis! that automatically adds the target="_blank" tag after a blogged URL. In other words, links open in a new window. So, for people using Blogger Pro with Mac IE 5.1, here you go: BizBlogThis! (Drag the link to your toolbar and blog with wild abandon.) It works for me, it might not work for you.

Open Letter to America: "Go get your ten-billionth burger, America. Fatten your already fat asses with bacteria-and-hormone-ridden meat and do nothing as you sit stupefied before your mind-numbing television sets awaiting the next episode of sad families being humiliated on 'Cops.'"

The Sharp Portable AV Player lets you record from TV or download from the web and watch on the go (via Gizmodo). Maybe you could download directly from TiVo. It'd be nice if it had the same UI. I remember thinking about this the day the iPod was released. Anyway, cool stuff.

Wow, Amazon Restaurants. Cool. I found a place in Harvard Square I didn't know about.

Hello Kitty responds to your keyboard motion by talking and moving. You can type with Kitty. Hello Kitty moves her arms and head while you type. Hello Kitty will talk with you in Japanese and English. In other words, people who are comfortable with naked, decapitated dolls; nightmarish bobbing clown heads; or cymbal-clashing, self-powered wind-up monkey toys, will not find Hello Kitty USB Hub freaky in any way.

Amazon.co.uk: At a glance: Blogging Now you can pre-order in the UK. I'll take three!

Brewster and Pippie made it to the Companions Photo Gallery of our cat food provider. They're famous!

Bloglet now sports a feature that lets you view the email of those who subscribe to your blog. Among my subscribers: bizstonesucks@yahoo.com. Ah, so that email is already taken. Okay, good to know.

10 Tips on Writing the Living Web from A List Apart.

This just in: Microsoft Yanks Core Fonts. I wrote a short newsy piece inspired by this blog post: The Case of the Missing Microsoft Fonts. Why? I don't know.

Gizmodo and other Blogging Jobs. It's ugly, yes but I need a way to track these blogging jobs starting at the beginning. I'll fix it up if there's interest. Meanwhile, I gotta get me one of these jobs.

Davezilla: Good Bye Little Dragon Guy "It has come to our attention that you have incorporated the "ZILLA" portion of our client’s GODZILLA marks in the name of your "DAVEZILLA.COM" domain name, and that you have included a "reptile-like" character as well as a "monster-like" character…[this] is likely to cause the users of your site to believe that the "DAVEZILLA.COM" website is either associated with, authorized by, or sponsored by our client…we request that you remove the objectionable imagery and reference to GODZILLA from your website to eliminate any likelihood of confusion and posibility of an inaccurate affiliation with Toho and GODZILLA." Is Mozilla next? Perhaps.

Meg's Blogging for Dollars article is right on. Bloggers will find themselves in a position to accept payment for blogging and the best way to show your stuff to a potential sponsor will be to point them to your archives. So get blogging!

I twisted my ankle this weekend like you would not believe. It hurts like a blow torch. My book will be out next month, in the meantime I need a job. Livia says I should pitch some articles and get some freelance writing going again. Probably a good idea. I should get into a routine with the writing. That seems to work for various professionals of various sorts and kinds. Also, when the summer's over this beachy town may lose it's allure. In fact, hobbling around in seaweedy water today was a little less than glamorous. Although, I could have sworn I saw Dan Bricklin driving to the beach last week. Very glamorous.

Where blogging software meets CafePress: Blogger Swag, UserLand Stuff, Xanga Store (in the works), LiveJournal's CafePress Store, and BigBlogTool too. There are probably more, I just typed names in after the "store.aspx?s=" stuff. I do that sort of thing now and then because I'm a wild and crazy guy.

Boston Globe Online - Reflecting growth of 'blogging'"In yet another indication that ''blogging'' is going mainstream, Concord-based Trellix Corp., which provides Web site building technology to small businesses and consumers, is set to announce today that it's adding weblog management software to its publishing platform."

Cool! Amazon Light now has lists. Add me!

Correction: My blog was shut down. I have been functioning "normally" this week.

Whew. I was shut down for 3 days by various revolutionaries but I'm back.

Getting ready to go to the beach again. I may need to get a job soon.

During the course of writing my book (which is done, I saw PDFs this morning!) I sort of let myself go in the facial hair department. I trimmed it half-heartedly with some small scissors a few times. During a party last weekend somebody said I looked like MacGuyver. A fellow genius! Maybe I found a new look.