Month: October 2008

Saturday Six: It’s like Friday Five, but with 20 percent more bullet points and a day later

Contextless links from the RSS reader:

  1. It’s not its (h/t: largehearted boy).
  2. Holy Weblog! It’s back! In the days when I blogged semi-religiously, Holy Weblog! was a favorite. Then it took I hiatus, and I soon followed. Glad to see M.J. Garcia back on the scene.
  3. Nexodus, a spooky font for Halloween. Via HOW magazine blog.
  4. Media elites discover the Twitterverse. AdPulp reports that Business Week’s editor-in-chief is now on Twitter (@JOHNABYRNE). (Someone should have shown him how to use the Caps Lock key.)
  5. WeAre.Us: (almost) like Ning, but with a heart. A social network that is a social support network.
  6. Confidence is leaving the fiat money system. OK, my libertarian soul is showing, but this article about the U.S. and European monetary systems really appeals to me. But given the global financial upheaval, maybe it’s time to take another look at a commodity-based monetary system. You know: gold, silver, precious metals? Oil, maybe? Something. Anything besides the funny money being created these days.

Blog search: Can Iterend upend Technorati, Google?

There’s a new blog search engine on the scene called Iterend that hopes to take on the top blog search engines, Technorati and Google Blog Search.

Mashable tested the newcomer against Technorati and Google and concluded that “the old dog Technorati still seemed to provide the best and fastest results when searching for the same exact keywords.”

Here’s the Mashable screencast of the experiment:

http://cdn.episodic.com/player/EpisodicPlayer.swf?config=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.episodic.com%2Fshows%2F2%2F256%2F10%2Fconfig.xml

Iterend is still in private beta, but if you want to test-drive it, first make sure you’re set up to accept cookies, then submit your email address to the site, and you’re in.