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Shashwati asks why I chose to work in one of the most earthquake and typhoon prone regions on the planet. One good reason is that they are much
After wasting an afternoon figuring out how to set up Audio Hijack to automatically record yesterday’s All Things Considered, Fresh Air, and
Have an interesting link you think I’d be interested in? Tag it in del.icio.us with the tag “for:kerim” and I’ll see it when I look at
In the early days, my blog was actually an e-mail list sent out to a group of friends and family members. Then I figured out how to post everything
Very exciting. I just discovered via a discussion on Golublog that CiteULike provides RSS feeds for a number of anthropology journals, including The
I haven’t posted anything in my “Feeds” category for a while — mostly because people seem to be catching on as to how useful RSS feeds can be.
Following Joi Ito, I am going to quote David Weinberger’s post in its entirety. I’ve really become interested in the way tagged meta data works (see
I generally try to respect the fact that the vast majority of my users visit this site using a PC, but I liked this comment from Brent Simmons,
I’ve slowed down on posting regular updates about things you can do with RSS. This is partially because most people who are prone to trying out new
I recently posted about how the diaries of Samuel Pepys were being released as a blog. Well, today I discovered a bunch of other sites releasing
In my article on blogging, I commented on the links between contemporary blogging and diary writing in the seventeenth century: This is not unlike
I’ve added a new feature for all those who simply can’t get enough of Keywords — a “side blog” or “link blog” of fun, interesting links that I like,
Syndicate your schedule! I’ve long been using PHP iCalendar which allows me to sync my iCal Calendar without using an expensive .Mac account, and
One of the big problems with running a full-text newsfeed on your website is that it makes it difficult to keep track of how many people are reading
Continuing my ongoing quest to document new and innovate uses for RSS feeds… Looks like Google is pushing Atom (a standard that “competes” with
For those who don’t know about Slashdot, here is the wikipedia entry: Slashdot (frequently abbreviated online as “/.”) is a popular
Gnews2RSS An experimental convertor that takes a Google News search and turns it into RSS Very cool. Although, it seems that Google doesn’t like
Xeni Jardin of boingboing.net wrote the following: In an item about RSS for the current issue of Wired Magazine, I wrote: “Job seekers anxious
I’ve been very happy with my Amazon RSS Feed Generator. It has alerted me to quite a few new books coming out on topics that I’m interested in. The
This is a post for the New Yorkers out there. I’m sure there are similar services for other cities, and I hope people will write about them in the
Over the past year I’ve seen a lot of bloggers write that they wish there was a search engine that would search only the sites that they read every
This is an exciting time here at Keywords. Just after announcing one new feature on this blog, I’m already announcing a new one! Announcing “Feeds.”
My first “feeds” post is an unusual use of RSS feeds. Thanks to a website called WordSpy, you can be immediately notified of new words entering the
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