Reading and consuming, for readers
The content platform Parse.ly offers a new tool that tracks 10 million articles/month with 3 billion page views/month. This tool gives you free stats about what’s popular every day. The tool is: currents.parsely.com The free version is limited, but still interesting. It gives you the top ten categories. They list the supply (number of articles) …
More sports content is needed to meet the demand Read More »
Looking to replace iTunes as your podcast app? Downcast is really cool. It has both an iPhone iOS app and a MacOS desktop app. Four reasons to use Downcast as your podcast app: Create your own custom playlists Mobile and desktop syncing Different settings for each device Automatically skip ahead, custom setting for every podcast …
Imagine every two weeks always having a new book to read. Sounds great, right? You could accomplish this with a subscription to Amazon Kindle Unlimited. Or you could accomplish this with… your local library. I love physical books. I love shelves filled with physical books. I love places with people who love books. Libraries. I …
With so many wonderful podcasts available, we truly live in a golden age of podcasts. I love it. There are thousands of great podcasts out there. Listeners have such a wide range of podcasts to listen to. Podcasts about general topics like current news, sports, health, or finance. Wide selection of topics And then there …
Spend less time on Facebook, and enjoy it more. Tired of all the junk on Facebook? Do you find yourself scrolling and scrolling forever? Only a couple items out of hundreds look interesting? Cut down all the garbage you see on Facebook and take control of your timeline. The method is simple and employs two …
How to cut the noise out of Facebook (use a friends list sorted by most recent) Read More »
I’ve found my favorite way to keep Twitter running in the background at work. Tweetdeck is the tool, with two columns. Yup. Just two columns. If you try to use the normal Twitter stream on the homepage, you’ll have to manually click the “See 35 new Tweets” message. Plus, the homepage of Twitter shows you …
My favorite way to set up Tweetdeck as a background stream Read More »
Evernote is a fantastic service to save all sorts of things. Interesting articles, blog posts, to do items. I’m about to hit a milestone of 25,000 notes. How do I work with this large amount of notes? With notebooks! In Evernote, you put every note into a notebook. I have about 50 notebooks, which is …
When I listen to podcasts on Soundcloud instead of iTunes, I feel about 100 times more connected to the podcaster. In iTunes, the podcast is a piece of media that I listen to. Much like the radio or tv. It’s just consumed. But with Soundcloud, there are comments directly below the podcast. The comments can …
Soundcloud connects you to podcasters, iTunes does not Read More »
The Chicago Tribune reports: The same weirdly specific ads you see online that are tailored to your behavior could soon appear on your local television network, thanks to looming policy changes by federal regulators. I’m all for programmatic ads on TV if they allow me to block certain ads. First thing I would block are …
TV ads customized for you, thanks to the ATSC 3.0 chip in your TV Read More »
The dash is a lot easier to read in titles than the vertical bar. Whenever Google indexes a blog post, the Google bots use the meta title of the blog post. For the meta title, most blogs these days will include two items: title of the blog post the name of the blog When you …
Vertical bar or dash? Which is the better separator? Read More »