Category Archives: Web 2.0

RSS: No, I didn’t notice your new website’s theme.

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 12, 2010
Over at the Future Shop Tech Blog, I wrote about RSS feeds, and how I organize them to stay up to date with everything from blog posts to Craigslist searches. If you’re like me and subscribe to hundreds of different feeds, it’s important to figure out a good workflow that helps you focus on what’s [...]
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Notational Velocity and Simplenote Part Two: Making a good thing better

By Catherine Winters | Published: June 11, 2010
Last week, I wrote about my experiences using Notational Velocity and Simplenote to turn a collection of text files into a quick, searchable, cloud-based notetaking system. Today, I’m going to complain about what’s wrong with it. Now, to be fair, I’m quite pleased with the whole Notational Velocity package. Simplenote’s team are quick to respond to [...]
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Catherine is speaking at WordCamp Vancouver 2010

By Catherine Winters | Published: June 1, 2010
Happy news, Vancouver-area WordPress users! I’m pleased to confirm that, yes, I will be at WordCamp Vancouver 2010 on June 12. I’ll be speaking with Tris Hussey about the upcoming (Possibly just-released by then!) WordPress 3.0 and child themes. For more information about child themes, check out Tris’ blog. Personally, I’m excited about the new [...]
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Blogathon 2009: All in One SEO Pack must be configured.

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So earlier today, I was informed by all-around nice guy and occasional WordPress-handholder Tris Hussey that I ought to be using the All in One SEO Pack on my WordPress blog. So I got it, only to discover that all the config fields were empty. Apparently version 1.6.4 has a bit of a problem with [...]
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Blogathon 2009: What kind of site do you think this is, anyway?

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So I was checking out my Google Analytics stats just now to gauge the impact Blogathon is having upon my site traffic. Answer: lots. Obviously. However, I couldn’t help but notice a number of interesting searches by which people are coming here. Okay, that’s different. Other bewildering search terms people used to arrive here include: [...]
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Blogathon 2009: “Legally, we have to refer to you as Catherine December.”

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
After hearing Dave Olsen talk a bit about the restrictions being applied — in particular, to the “pedestrian corridors” being established here in Vancouver during the Olympics, I’m concerned about the implications for free speech, as well as the potential for these laws to endure after the Olympics have ended. I’ve been convinced for a long [...]
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Blogathon 2009: Dave Olsen & the True North Media House

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
Dave Olsen stopped by Workspace this evening to cheer some of us on and tell us a bit about the social/indie/citizen media project he’s working on for the 2010 Olympics this year, the True North Media House. From the TNMH website: We intend to create a space in downtown Vancouver to serve as a media [...]
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Blogathon 2009: Catherine’s Safari 4 Review

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So I switched to Safari 4 from Firefox recently. The end. Yeah, there’s more, actually. First, the good parts, the ones that were enough to make me give up Firefox: It’s fast. Really, really fast. Pages you visit get indexed in OSX’s Spotlight. It’s like Google Desktop for Firefox, only not totally ridiculous. While Safari doesn’t [...]
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Blogathon 2009: 3 killed, 14 injured. Also, kitty videos!

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
So this has been bugging me for a long time: Digg.com seems to have grown past the point of usefulness lately. Digg is ostensibly a link-sharing site, where the most popular sites people are reading and voting upon are promoted to the front page. The downside to this is that popularity does not equal relevance. [...]
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Suggestion Box: Attribution/ShareAlike/ActuallyTellMeAboutIt

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 14, 2009
Creative Commons covers almost all use cases apart from one revealed on Twitter this morning: you’ve granted others the right to use and remix your work, but how do you know if someone’s done it? Sure, it’s certainly courteous to do so, but they’re not necessarily under any obligation to let you know about it. With [...]
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