A Hierarchy of Fears

A Hierarchy of Fears

Ranked from childhood to parenthood. I’m in the neighborhood of 14-17, myself.

Via kottke.org.

Why we’re powerless to resist grazing on endless web data

Why we’re powerless to resist grazing on endless web data

I shall be using this as an excuse from now on.

Rather than forcing people to constantly update [our] blog with full entries, why not pull from the

Rather than forcing people to constantly update [our] blog with full entries, why not pull from the content they're creating anyway? So [the aggregator] pulls in content from del.icio.us, Flickr, Twitter and other people's blogs and inserts it right into [the site]. In my mind, it's an example of passive activity, which I define as tapping into people's existing behavior in order to deliver, rather than asking them for the information themselves.

Fixing Business Software // NoahBrier.com