Botany Photo of the Day: Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill'

Botany Photo of the Day: Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill' Thanks Daniel for your kind mention in the blog footnotes.

23 steps to watching other blogs.

Chicago Tribune | Eric Zorn 23 real simple steps to making your Internet life much better - is a great article that details exactly how to get a bunch of blogs together in one place so that you can read them easily.

A Consuming Experience: Technorati: tag creator for multiple word tags, and more

A Consuming Experience: Technorati: tag creator for multiple word tags, and more So now that I have added this little Grease Monkey Script adding Technorati tags should be dead simple...

Tags: web design, learning

Technorati Help: Tags

Technorati Help: Tags: And this becomes the tag? "Web Design"

russell davies: eg2006 - thoughts from a conference

russell davies: eg2006 - thoughts from a conference Several months ago I added an eccentric design blogger to my regular reading. Many of his posts I just click past but there are two things that have caught my attention. The first is something that he calls the Account Planning School of the Web. Since he has a few other eccentric friends in the marketing game - he challenges his readers to respond to a particular design brief. Then he is bold enough to respond to the results. Great insight into how other people approach creativity and design. And the second item was this. A long (self confessed) rambling that is simply one of the best conference summaries that I have read. Ever. by focussing and recording the thoughts that stimulated him - he passed along the creative energy and thinking that this conference generated for him. Amazing.

Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth

Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth: Absolutely amazing summary of the explosion of blogging. If I needed to convince myself how big or how important this is going to be - here is the proof. "In summary: * Technorati now tracks over 27.2 Million blogs * The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months * It is now over 60 times bigger than it was 3 years ago * On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day * 13.7 million bloggers are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created * Spings (Spam Pings) can sometimes account for as much as 60% of the total daily pings Technorati receives * Sophisticated spam management tools eliminate the spings and find that about 9% of new blogs are spam or machine generated * Technorati tracks about 1.2 Million new blog posts each day, about 50,000 per hour * Over 81 Million posts with tags since January 2005, increasing by 400,000 per day * Blog Finder has over 850,000 blogs, and over 2,500 popular categories have attracted a critical mass of topical bloggers"

TThinking about Web 2.0

Ten Ways To Take Advantage of Web 2.0 (web2.wsj2.com) Thinking about the ramifications without fighting about what it is or isn't is the strength of this article. I'm amazed at the creativity and the multiple trains of thought just from the first point. And it gets better as I get drawn in further.