Bill Weye

Tag: Internet

  • Give the Internet a break!

    In today’s podcast I explain why using the Internet is not like turning on the faucet in your home, plus I explain one technical aspect of the Internet that will blow your mind.

  • Transparancy at whitehouse.gov – look at the robots file

    Does this mean more transparancy in our government, the fact that the Obama administration has a one line exclusion for the robots file? What, you don’t remember the infinite robots file Bush had? The robots file, which tells search engines what files or directorys not to index (meaning you would never find that information in…

  • Cuil is not cool

    I didn’t find Cuil cool at all. After reading about this new search engine from alumni from Google, I thought I would take Cuil for a spin by searching for my name, Bill Weye. Well, you can see a screen grab of the search results to the right. The first thing you’ll notice in these…

  • Lieberman campaign clogged its own tubes

    photo credit: Sluggo Okay, in 2006 when Joe Lieberman was sucking wind because of all the body blows he was getting from Ned Lamont, his Democrat primary opponent, he blamed the Lamont the campaign of dirty tricks when the Lieberman server died. Lieberman said it was because of a denial of service attack. On August…

  • Would you show your mom 2 girls 1 cup?

    In doing research for my post about George Clooney watching the 2 girls 1 cup video (if you really need to know about it, read the Wikipedia article), I found an interesting phenomenon on youTube: sons forcing their mothers to watch this mind altering video. There’s a whole bunch of videos of sons taping their…

  • Craigslist cleans up Erotic Services

    photo credit: InfoMofo Craigslist has a new blog that is nearly totally useless. I love Craigslist for everything it is and for everything it isn’t: simple, no frills, with a lot of information; but the Craigslist blog is useless because it really isn’t a blog without permalinks (I don’t care about the comments, really). In…

  • Yahoo + Microsoft = Trouble For Flickr?

    A couple of weeks ago, on my Photo Share Podcast, we talked about the possibility of Microsoft gobbling up Yahoo. It wasn’t hard to see the writing on the wall, if you paid attention to the business news. There was some speculation by analysts that Microsoft would make the offer soon. Little did we know…

  • New Gmail Features Make Me Happy

    Every time I login to Gmail and see that new features have been added, most of the time it makes me happy. This time, with the addition of color labels, I’m really happy. I use Gmail to keep track of over 15 different email accounts, and using labels is the best way to keep track…

  • Blog Action Day: The Environment

    When I read that the topic for Blog Action Day was the environment I knew almost immediately that I was going to write about my trip to Germany this past summer. It was my first trip to Europe, my first trip beyond North America, and immensely influential to my environmental consciousness. When comparing the environmental…

  • 3 Tools I’m Using To Crank Up My Online Networking

    In preparation for launching my new Web sites/businesses, I’ve begun cranking up the amount of energy I spend on using the Web for networking. I guess that means going from no energy to some energy. I have never been very good at putting myself into circulation, so it’s not a big surprise that I struggle…

  • Digging up old writing

    I can hardly believe that I’ve been blogging since 2001. While not steadily, I have been writing and testing blogging platforms since the early days of blogging, for me beginning in July 2001 with the Greymatter script written by Noah Grey. I used Greymatter until sometime in February 2002 when I switched to Movable Type.…

  • Favorite Mac programs and news readers

    Here is a list of my favorite, and in my opinion, among the most useful Mac shareware programs for OS X. This is just my opinion, based on my experience using these programs, sometimes for years, since the OS 9 days. Concluding I will talk a bit about rss and news reading programs for both…

  • The top reviewer

    How is is possible that one person can review 5420 things on Amazon? Well Harriet Klausner has done it. Not only that, but she has 33711 helpful votes! She must feel proud, being so helpful.

  • Gotham Blogs

    A cool site: New York City Blogs. It is a listing of NYC based blogs, by subway line and borough. Note to self: there are a lot of rotten blogs out there (I would add a link here, but there are too many banal blogs to choose just one). One good thing about the “Commodity…

  • Collecting the Internet

    One of the main limitations of the Internet/Web (know the difference!) is that too much of the content becomes lost forever. It sort of comes and goes without so much as a peep; but, shouldn’t we be collecting all of this stuff, just in case? Somebody is: The Internet Archive. They are collecting the Internet…