I’d like to see somebody pull this off. I’d love the MAC OS and hardware, but I’ll probably be running some form of Microsoft OS for who knows how long.
UPDATE (01/30/06): The purse has passed $8000 as of today.
Since everybody seems to be blogging a list lately, what could be better than 10 lists of 10 ways to improve your blog? Probably no list at all–but here it is anyway.
- Top 10 ideas for how to build a better blog
- 10 Killer Post Ideas
- Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
- 10 Tips for Good Web Writing
- 10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
- Ten Tips For A Better Weblog
- Ten Tips for writing a blog post
- How To Write A Successful Blog: Top Ten Tips
- Top Ten Writing Tips To Help You To Write More
- 10 Tips for Bloggers
So there you go–100 ways to a better blog.
Update: OK–I know I’m blowing my list of ten lists, but Steve Rubel just posted Ten Things Disney Can Teach Us About Blogging. So now it’s 110 ways to a better blog–that should keep you busy.
Update 2: OK–just noticed this on LifeHacker–How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog) (it’s a list of ten tips)–so now my list is a whopping 120 strong and completely ignores the second item on his list. But, no excuses for having a bummer blog.
Update 3: And another list of ten… 10 Tips for Attracting More Comments at Performancing.com
This piece at Engadget looks interesting…
No XP on Intel Macs, but Vista is good to go
It’ll be fun to see what happens–and see who gets XP running on those new Macs first.
Update: Seems there’s plenty conjecture to go around…
apcmag.com: Intel Macs may boot XP after all
“Reports spreading across the web that Intel Macs can’t boot Windows XP might be inaccurate, reports Dan Warne.”
Kevin Rose say’s he’s heard there’ll be a 15″ intel Macbook today. Interesting–we’ll see.
UPDATE: Looks like Kevin has his sources…
MacRumors.com : Macworld San Francisco 2006 Live Updates
10:33 am iSight Camera.
10:32 am 15.4inch LCD. bright as cinemas.
10:32 am Hair thinner than the 17″.
10:32 am Fastest notebook ever.
10:31 am 4-5x faster.
10:31 am 2 processors in every Macbook pro.
10:31 am No more Powerbook. Intel duo Core.
10:30 am New laptop computer.
10:30 am Today – MacBook Pro
Good review of Newsvine over at Solution Watch (via). A new community approach to getting the latest news. It’s invite only right now but I happen to have invites for the next 15 commentors.
NOTE: My invites are now all gone.
Hemingway for WordPress is a top notch theme by Kyle Neath that’s got a lot of promise. I’m very happy to see that Matt–as he commented here–has made it available to users of WordPress.com. Looking forward to where this theme is headed.
Guy Kawasaki makes a good case for The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint.
I am trying to evangelize the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. It’s quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Great advice.