For valentine’s day, for love, and for the lack thereof.
Valentine’s Day: Before the 14th
Got plans for Valentine’s Day? ( No, and I’m not making any / No, not yet / Yes / Yes! / I don’t know / I don’t care )
How many Valentine’s Day cards are you writing? ( 0 / 1 / 2 […]
These a a few local internet / hyperlocal web app ideas that have been stuck in my head:
How The Locals Fared: I went to Portland in December for the holidays, and I was leafing through the sports section of the Oregonian when I ran across a column of agate titled “How The Locals Fared.” In […]
Hey, you never know, the World Series could come to your town next.
World Series: Before ticket sales start
What’s the most you would pay for a single World Series ticket? ( I wouldn’t / $50 / $100 / $250 / $500 / $1,000 / $2,000 / $5,000 / More than that / I don’t know / […]
Hi spring. It’s a new season, and heck if that doesn’t open the doors to a new stable of online poll ideas. This page uses Creative Commons license 123, which means “steal these polls.”
Spring: At the beginning
How many times have you been to the park this month? ( I’m allergic to parks / 0 / […]
Newspapers don’t come with a manual. They never have. They’re simple, right? Maybe, but this “no need to explain” thing is turning into a problem online, and, sometimes in print.
Without a voice from the newspaper giving advice to the reader on how to use the newspaper, each reader gets to figure it out on […]
Here’s a list of FireFox tools that can make your job easier… I’ve collected these over the past couple years…
Most-Useful Extensions
Do you want to email a long link to a page? Use this to create (and copy to your clipboard) a shorter version of that link. I use this multiple times every day. When the […]
So, Denver’s had a lot of snow in the past couple weeks. Colorado too. Snow, snow snow. I cooked up a bunch of online poll ideas with snow- and winter-related questions, they’re below. Feel free to crib from them if you want, or contribute your own.
Snowfall: During
How are you planning to get to work […]
If you have web feeds on your site and you don’t use <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"... anywhere on your site, you’re missing out on a lot of subscribers.
Each feed you publish ought to have its own “link” tag because it makes it easier for folks to find your feeds.
This code belongs in the head of your […]