One of the things I really love about blogging is getting email from the people I mention here. Back in 2002, I posted about an avant-garde musician, Ben McAllister, whose work I had found on the web. Ben emailed me last week to tell me has a site now called listenfaster.com and a new album [...]

Steve turned me onto del.icio.us and I haven’t been the same since. I’ve tried a lot of bookmarking tools, but this one is king. I’m actually looking forward to migrating all my bookmarks from my home machine to del.icio.us so I can access them wherever I am.

One of the coolest things about opensource software is other people can extend it. There are currently 100 extensions for FireFox. Here are three you should check out: FoxyTunes, MiniT, and Sage. FoxyTunes lets you control your media play from within FireFox (which is suprisingly handy). It works with many players and you can set [...]

Heard a cool story on NPR yesterday (on the drive home) about the British Library making their collection of Shakespeare’s quartos (93 copies representing 21 plays) availible online. It’s an increadibly cool project and the viewer interface lets you compare two works side by side. I look forward to a day when all rare books [...]

The first preview release of the 1.0 version of everyone’s favorite browser, Mozilla Firefox, was released this week. The Firefox folks have also put together a community site called spreadfirefox.com to help hype it. I just grabbed a copy and there are some tasty improvements. Get yourself a copy and browse happy.