Yet Another Link Update

I did a small update to my links on the right again.

First, I created a new folder for just PhotoBlogs. This makes it neater and less confusing because they are sometimes named strangely.

I promoted The Dilbert Blog. It's a written blog by the author, and not the actual comic, which I also already link to. He's a pretty funny guy.

Next is Mark Cuban's Blog, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and dotcom millionaire. I've been reading it for a long time, but unfortunately, he posts less frequently about basketball. He's a big supporter of copyright and DRM, so it's interesting to hear what he has to say. He's a smart guy.

Penny Arcade, the seminal web comic, which happens to be about gaming is worth a daily read. The guys are funny and usually have something interesting to say about recent news.

I demoted Dictionary.com's word of the day, because Wordsmith.org has a better editor. I also got rid of Steve Kerr, one of my favourite Basketball writers because he went and joined the Suns as their GM. I actually don't like that move because it deprives me of his writing and broadcasting. I also demoted Slate's Human Nature feed because I don't read it consistently, although it's decent.

Marginal Revolution is on the verge of being added to my regular rotation and Paul Graham is on the verge of being demoted due to lack of content.

Anyway, let me know if you come across any interesting photoblogs, and I'll add them to my rotation!

Link Update

I did a little spring cleaning on the Bloglines (an RSS reader) links that I have on the right.

Promotions:

Kottke.org: One of those A-list bloggers. He mostly just posts high quality links. His tagline, "Home of fine hypertext products" is quite clever and also true.

Joke a Day: self-explainatory

Demotions:

A La Cuisine: I actually met the guy IRL, which is strange to meet a fairly popular blogger. Unfortunately, he stopped updating his site! So he will get demoted to my secondary links...for now.

The Daily Tiffin: I used to like this site just to see Soren's (the author's son) lunchbox everyday, but she stopped that. Instead it's a site with general articles and recipes, which, although fairly high in quality, is too lengthy for my tastes. Also it's very "mommy" oriented, which kinda turns me off from it.

That's it for now...

Lastly, a funny video spoofing Web 2.0, called Supermarket 2.0:

glumbert.com - Supermarket 2.0

New Blogger Features

Well I've been using the new Blogger for a little while now and there are some new features.

First of all, there's a new RSS/Atom feed address, that is listed on the right side. I think my old feed is now broken since I swiched over. Also, there is finally a comment feed as well. I couldn't get the comments feed to show up with the blogger tag, so I manually added it myself on the sidebar to the right.

A smaller changes is now you can email post to another user, which I've added to the bottom of each post. Don't see it being incredibly useful, but it's took no effort for me to add.

The other big change is the addition of what Google calls "labels". The rest of the world calls them tags, but Google has chosen differently. Eventually I'll be able to see how much I blog about the Wii (too much) and even get a (geeky) T-shirt like this. But there are some deficiencies with tagging, such as using a different tag for the same topic. I think Google is trying to cut down on this by bringing up previously used tags as you type them into the text field. A good idea to keep track of my own tags, but too bad it doesn't cut across blog users in general.

Anyway, to offset the boring entry, here's an funny video linked to by Ted: