Feb 11, 2010
I purchased this domain and launched the site at 9:30 this morning. The only places I posted links were Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook. Six hours later, that brand new domain is #1 on Google for “Tweedact.” When did Google get so hella fast? I remember when it took weeks to get something listed on Google, and then only after inbound links showed up on prominent sites. I also remember walking barefoot to school in the snow with my pet Mastodon, but that’s neither here nor there.

I purchased this domain and launched the site at 9:30 this morning. The only places I posted links were Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook. Six hours later, that brand new domain is #1 on Google for “Tweedact.” When did Google get so hella fast?

I remember when it took weeks to get something listed on Google, and then only after inbound links showed up on prominent sites.

I also remember walking barefoot to school in the snow with my pet Mastodon, but that’s neither here nor there.

Feb 11, 2010

Tweedact

Announcing Tweedact, a bookmarklet for redacting topics from your Twitter feed. Launched fresh just this morning.

Jan 22, 2010

T H E N E W I N Q U I R Y

Why shouldn’t it work for poetry?

There’s something to be said for the innovative model of publishing that Grant and O’Connell are using. They’re straddling the online and real-world arenas; the Internet is making possible a real, physical book. (Elliott, too, lives in both spheres; he tours tirelessly to sell hard copies of his books, but is also the founder of the online literary magazine The Rumpus.) A pledge of $15 or more guarantees the backer a hard copy, so essentially you’re buying the book in advance on the promise of certain content. Clearly this model won’t work for all books—poetry and certain types of experimental writing, for example—but it is perfectly suited to this book.
Jan 11, 2010
The 404 page at TeuxDeux is most definitely FTW.

The 404 page at TeuxDeux is most definitely FTW.

Dec 21, 2009
Everytime I see a missing pet sign I think of Stephen King’s Hearts in Atlantis. Have you seen Brautigan?

Everytime I see a missing pet sign I think of Stephen King’s Hearts in Atlantis. Have you seen Brautigan?

Dec 21, 2009
The mind that comes to rest is tended
In ways that it cannot intend:
Is borne, preserved, and comprehended
By what it cannot comprehend
Wendell Berry, The Sabbath Poems
Nov 30, 2009
And sunlight fills the room.

And sunlight fills the room.

Nov 27, 2009

Stumptown Printers: Music Samples

Pricelist for Stumptown Printers. For my broadside project.

Nov 24, 2009

You don’t charge the search engines to send people to articles on your site, you pay them.

If you can’t make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. Charging money for attention gets you neither money nor attention.

Seth Godin (via AZspot) (via marco)
Nov 24, 2009
The baker in the medieval town square must holler “fresh rolls” if he hopes to feed the townfolk.
On Self-Promotion – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
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