Introducing: Highlighted Posts
Every now and then, a post comes along that’s meant for big things. It could be pulling the wraps off your new project, promoting your next show, raising awareness for a cause, or just sharing a truly incredible photo.
Today you’ll have a new option to Highlight those extra-important posts. For one dollar, your post will stand out in the Dashboard with a customizable sticker to make sure your followers take notice!
At least Tumblr is trying to find an innovative way to make money instead of overloading the site with ads or pushing “promoted posts” from P&G into your Dashboard.
To all the people freaking out about this: Calm the **** down, take a breath, and enjoy your usage of the free service called Tumblr.
Good news, everyone: the upcoming Reeder 3.0 for iPhone (and hopefully iPad) will support Fever, an alternative to Google Reader with some slick features. Granted, you need basic HTML/PHP chops since Fever is self-hosted, but it’s my preferred feed reader and the only reason I don’t use it regularly is because there haven’t been any good apps. Until… well, soon.
Reeder is already the best RSS reader client for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and they keep making changes that improve their apps. I don’t have a problem with using Google Reader as the syncing platform, but I plan to give Fever a look.
Their whole business model, in some ways, I think is based on drunk people trying to register their [domain] name and accidentally buying an SSL certificate.Merlin Mann on GoDaddy
If you haven’t already gotten the message, watch this quick video to get an idea of how bad the Senate’s Protect IP bill and the House’s Stop Online Privacy Act are.
In summary, it would allow the government to break the Internet’s routing system (DNS) in order to block access to sites with pirated materials. However, this does almost nothing to actually stop piracy — users can still access a blocked site by typing in an IP address instead of the domain name. What it does do, in reality, is give the US government control of core Internet functionality and the ability to block sites hosted outside of the US.
You can contact your senators and representative and let them know you oppose these acts.
Cubelets!
Former [Apple] Geniuses say they were told to say ‘as it turns out’ rather than ‘unfortunately’ to sound less negative when they are unable to solve a tech problem.“Secrets From Apple’s Genius Bar: Full Loyalty, No Negativity”
More predictions of the future from the past.
