Ryan Tomayko

Best Comment Policy Ever —

“This ain’t the goddamn Barney show, I’m not a goddamn purple dinosaur, and I don’t give a flying fuck about your feelings. I don’t love you, I don’t want to be your friend, and as far as I’m concerned, caring means not setting your house on fire.” — Phillip Birmingham

blog.txt —

A minimalist’s WordPress theme. Focus on typography and simple markup. Various configuration options and a print stylesheet.

Overlapping Circles —

Sam’s Planet Intertwingly is my TechMeme.

Blogger’s Code of Boring Irrelevance —

“If I want to publish a picture that shows Ronald McDonald smoking a joint made out of the rain forests, I can.”

Primary sources? You don’t need ‘em. Trust us. [jonudell.net] —

I’m surprised to see that any of the news sites linked to the original report.

Baron VC —

“Most of the sites that suffer from Digg are blogs that are trying to establish ongoing dialogue with their readers. The authors are more interested at developing ideas and sharing them with people that come across from organic channels.”

Blogging: Bad for coding —

and vice versa.

The Top Ten Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) —

Ouch. I’m making 50% of these right now :/

Squawkbox: Corporate Use of MSN Spaces-- check out CNBC. Rant alert —

Damn, looks like Microsoft is back to their old ways again…

Journalism and weblogs, part 327 —

Word. Authority has been set on its head. There’s been no better time in history to be an ornery bastard. :)

Microsoft makes web feeds easier —

Looks like RSS will finally be coming to “everyone else” now.

Get Rich Quick With Blogs —

The always insightful James Governor’s with a fist full of insight into insightless topics such t-shirts… weeeeeeee!

Fear, Greed and Social Software —

Why corporations will have to pick up on blogging…

My Long Bet with the NY Times —

It’s quite possible you’d win that bet today.

Typo - Weblog package atop Rails —

I’m going to see about moving my weblog to this..

Business Week predicts corporate takeover of blogs —

BusinessWeek has “Blogs” on cover but they don’t get it. Predicting a massive takeover of the blogosphere by major corporations – no one is going to some shitty feed-me-PR blog. We have those today, they’re called “Corporate Websites” and “Magazines”

The spit fight that ended my career at MSNBC —

“So, fuck it. I quit.” – David Weinberger on leaving MSNBC because they’re clueless.

tecosystems: Five Developer Blogs You Should Read —

Awww shucks, Mr. O'Grady, I’m flattered!

Rupert Murdoch should buy Jon Udell. —

I wish I could buy Jon Udell; I’d keep him in my cubical to impress my friends.

It’s Not Dangerous —

Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career

AMERICA - ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN —

Simon Willison showed me this scan of a Newspaper from April 14, 1865. It looks like a blog.

The on-demand blogosphere —

An Udell screencast on the future of the blogosphere. del.icio.us as a shared brain.. all great stuff. watch it.

Markdown in Python —

An implementation of John Gruber’s markdown text to XHTML processor in Python.

New York Times Link Generator —

Generates non-expiring links to New York Times content. Bookmarklet included.

cluetrain/hughtrain —

Cluetrain Manifesto: “This is why we hate you.” Hughtrain Manifesto: “This is how we’re going to fuck you up.”

Open Source Radio —

“A space for you to help contribute to a forthcoming CBC radio column about the open-source movement.” This is a great example of blog-as-collaboration-tool.

Why There's No Escaping the Blog —

Fortune looks at the impact of weblog’s on business.

Bloggercon 3 - Law —

Lawrence Lessig’s talk at Bloggercon 3 just hit IT Conversations.

Fear of Bloggers in Business and Journalism —

sigh.. corporate resistence to change never fails amuse me.

Scobleizer: Are you afraid to blog —

Surprisingly interesting look at fears of corporate blogging both internally and externally. Scoble thinks most people are afraid to get fired.

WordPress, Tagging, and a Critique of Hierarchy —

LaughingMeme: tags for wordpress.

The Atom Syndication Format 0.3 —

I know it says 0.2 in the URL and PRE-DRAFT in the title but this as normative as you can get with the 0.3 feeds in the wild.

Identifying Atom [xml.com] —

atom:id will use URIs (hurray). markp explains why.

QuickTopic - Instant Discussion Space —

Thinking about using this for my comment system. They have an XML-RPC API but it isn’t documented on the site.

Blog Interrupted —

Some lady that throws away mail for my very own Sen. Mike DeWine got fired because she kept an anonymous X-Rated blog about relations w/ FIVE upper staffers.

First look at MSN blogs —

Microsoft outsourcing work on MSN blog site to second graders from local elementary schools. Save the children, fsck the standards!

d.sankey.ca —

TODO: copy (gratuitously) this sites organization.

Weblogs Compendium - RSS Readers —

Bunch of News Readers

Am I missing something —

Why all the anonymous blogs? Wusses.

Planet Python

XML.com: XML Source Highlighting —

Need to get this in the blog.

Fedora People