I was a little stressed this morning before taking my Secured Transactions final so I decided to play the chillout song by Ze Frank. Its a neat little song especially when you read the story behind it. If you are stressed out today maybe give it a listen and see if it helps.
In case you didn’t know WordPress.com does support embedding from Bandcamp
I absolutely love Scott Harrison’s story and what he is doing with charity : water, this is a must watch interview.
Today I was throwing around the idea of trying to learn Ruby again and it got me thinking about _why. I think I had been trying to learn Ruby for only a few months back in 2009 before he committed “infosuicide” and today while doing a little searching to see if anything new popped up on him I came across this Slate article. I have to admit I have never read Slate before but I found this article to be quite good. I’m glad to hear he is doing well and maybe someday he will let us know what happened to make him decide to disappear.
While I don’t work much with the Vimeo iPhone App, I thought this video walkthrough was really nice especially for explaining all the different features of the app. While you didn’t get to see many hi-quality shots of the screen, I think the choice to have a person on camera explaining it really humanized the video and made it easier to watch.
I have to say I am really loving the new “a show with ze frank”. Here is one of my favorite episodes so far.
Guess who just added Rdio support?
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions
I was curious when widgets were added to WordPress so I did a quick Google search and I stumbled across this codex page. Its really cool to see how far WordPress has come.
In an earlier post I wrote about how WordPress.com almost needs a dictionary due to all the jargon that is used. However, recently I found a flaw is that idea. A dictionary only works if the person knows the word but doesn’t know what is means. However, what if someone doesn’t even know the word. For example, let say someone wants to share their posts on Twitter. There is a great support doc for that feature however the feature is called publicize and if they search for publicize they will find out about the feature right away. But what if they don’t know what to search for, how easy will it be to find it? Or what about the boxes (widgets) in the righthand side of your blog (sidebar), if the user doesn’t know that they are called widgets and sidebars they may not be able to find out how to change/work with those features very easily.
What I think would be really cool would be have have an interactive WordPress.com support page that looks like a regular WordPress.com blog where the users would be able to see what the different elements are called and then be able to click on the elements and be taken to a support doc that explains how to use that feature. Here is a really crappy mockup.
