Scott Yang's Playground

Heard from Vivian last night after the basketball that I have been tagged by this blogosphere influenza known as four things. Not sure who passed that one onto me. However, while I don’t always agree with fine developers at 37signals, and I just want to say what Matt has said. Next! Btw, I always wondered [...]

52% of Chinese office workers blog, 41% of them prefer MSN Space, and only 27% have their blogs public. Not just office workers but I can see lots of NBFers have their semi-public blogsites on MSN Space. Moreover, “A brave 60 percent of white-collars bloggers criticize their boss on their blogs” Will we see a [...]

Via ESV Blog, Logos Bible Software Blog — a weblog that talks about, hmm, Bible software in general, especially (probably) the industrial leading Logos. Lots of very interesting entries.

Via ProBlogger. Jakob Nielsen wrote an interesting article on the top ten design mistakes. While Jakob has been famous for not applying his own suggestions (useit.com as evidence), he has actually made some very good points in those articles he wrote. Now, let’s see what else I need to do to improve this blogsite:

Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote about keeping the signal to noise ratio high in your weblog, and there is no need to write frequently for the sake of keeping the readers, as most of them will keep up with the news feeds anyway. I love the analogy of busy wait and sleep. And there is no point [...]

It has been a well known news, thanks to the power of blogosphere. PaidContent first leaked the acquisition of Weblogs Inc. by American Online, and then every second or third blogs I have been reading have reported on it. LcF blogged about this sale, concluding: Weblogs Inc. is a successful blogging network. Many of its [...]

Three weeks ago I blogged about WordPress.com‘s invitation, and today I received the following email: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away you entered your email address on http://wordpress.com/ to get a blog. We’re now inviting small groups to use WordPress.com and your email address was selected today! Yeah! So here we [...]

Well, I am a little bit late to the party of cheerers, but here I am — someone who is really glad that Google has made available their beta Google Blog Search. What does it have? Search through feeds (too bad for those blogs expose none or partial feeds). Google’s trademark simplicity. Search logic — [...]

Darren of ProBlogger has posted archive of his “31 Days to Building a Better Blog Headquarters” campaign. There are a lot of informative articles written by the Melburnian problogger himself and many other contributors. However, I think reading them is one thing, applying them consistently and persistently on my blog sites is another. Oh lazy [...]

Via ProBlogger: SixApart has announced unlimited blogs for MovableType’s free users. Mena from 6A said, … with version 3.2, *all users* will be entitled to unlimited weblogs. This goes for free users, as well. A lot of the rationale behind this was that the multiple weblog management is so good in 3.2, that we didn’t [...]

Via Google Blog, Blogger for Word toolbar is a 2Mb download Microsoft Word add-on that let you edit, save and publish via the most popular word processor. I think it might be powered by Blogger API via XML-RPC. Let’s guess how quickly it will be hacked to publish onto other blogging platforms (MovableType, WordPress, etc) [...]

MSN has launchde the beta service of its own meta-blogs — “MSN Filter”, which builds on top of popular MSN Space platform. It claims to be “your one-stop shop for the inside scoop on what’s happening across the Web, according to the people who know the most”, but MSN won’t even reveal the blogger (or [...]

I have been thinking about doing it for a while – a blog that lists all the cheap deals that we have discovered during the week, a blog that might save us a few pennies – a bargain blog. There are actually quite a few bargain blogs or hot deal listings out there on the [...]

The word Folksonomy (or commonly known as “tagging”) has to be one of biggest buzzwords on Internet today, as it has been popularised by del.icio.us, Flickr and the like. What is folksonomy anyway? Here is the definition from WikiPedia (as of 4 July 2005): Folksonomy is a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using [...]

blogs4God, the Christian blogging directory, is going to move from MovableType to Drupal, Mean Dean announced. Drupal is really good for community blogging. Great platform and efficient clean code. The new FOCUS website will be based on Drupal as well. Can’t wait to see the new b4G.