From Serious Eats Fill the cylinder of the Turkey Cannon with your favorite cooking liquid, stick a turkey on it, and let it roast to perfection. Like in a beer can chicken, the liquid helps cook and flavor the bird from the inside resulting in a faster cooking time and more flavor. [via CNet Blogs]...
Harry McCracken, who certainly knows a thing or two about this topic, has a list of the Twelve Greatest Defunct Tech Magazines Ever. I do miss the sass of MacUser, I do remember the fun stuff in Computer Gaming. I would also add BBS Magazine to the list -- I loved them because they never talked down to their readers... Open question: where's the similar list for online sites and blogs that might not have gone out of biz, but are no longer recognizable? For example, I'd say Wonkette was never the same once Ana Marie Cox left. Others? email...
In November 2007, we listed 10 Semantic apps to watch and yesterday we published an update on what each had achieved over the past year. All of them are still alive and well - a couple are thriving, some are experimenting and a few are still finding their way. Now we're going to list 10 more Semantic apps to watch. These are all apps that have gotten onto our radar over 2008. We've reviewed all but one of them, so click through to the individual reviews for more detail. It should go without saying, but this is by no means...
Ms Google - your new virtual teacher. "A useful blog post once a week is better than low-quality content published daily." – Ms. Google Last week, Google released an helpful SEO Guide [PDF Book] that discusses factors which are often responsible for improving the rankings of your websites in Google and other search engines. Now there’s a new document from the same Google Webmaster Central team that offers tips on how bloggers can improve their blogs. It suggesting publishing full feeds, using tags and getting readers though comments on other blogs. If you have a blog, you probably know...
Nominations are now closed and voting open for the Second Annual Open Web Awards. The only fair, transparent, and honest awards for the sector are decided by the readers of The Inquisitr, and the many fine awards partners joining us in backing Awards host Mashable for the event. Over 43,000 verified nomination were received and the 10 most-nominated sites and services in each category (where 10th place was a draw, we allowed more than 10 nominees in that category) selected for the voting round. The first of two voting rounds starts now, and you can vote for one company...
In the last 24 hours MediaWhiz (disclosure - they are sponsors of this site) have released a new advertising product for those interested in selling text links on their blogs) called InLinks. InLinks is an ad network that allows advertisers to buy text links within the content of your posts. The links pass on Google Juice (ie they don’t have nofollow tags), they are approved by publishers before going live and they don’t have any kind of indication that they are ads on them (no popups like Kontera ads for example). Lets be clear - these ads are against Google’s...
One of my favorite blogs is PassiveAggressiveNotes.com, and today they've got a doozy. Apparently, this branch of Dunkin Donuts really loves to reward their employee of the month by congratulating him or her personally on their receipts: If you're going to make fun of someone for being "slow," at least use spell check....
Santacon 2008 events are currently being planned around the world in December as Christmas approaches. Over on santarchy.com I’ve been actively tracking the cities currently being targeted for Santarchy invasions. To get a better idea of what Santarchy is all about, here’s my 40 minute documentary on the 1996 Santacon in Portland “You’d Better Watch Out: Portland Santacon ‘96″. photo by John Curley This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Santacon 2008, Global Santarchy Invasion Planned For December Related posts:- Santacon 2007, Plans Underway for Worldwide...
As most of you probably already know, WordPress is expanding far beyond a blogging platform, towards a complete Content Management System (CMS). In simple words, this means that the WordPress open source software can be used to build virtually any type of website, including blogs, company sites and online stores. One of the features that WordPress introduced to walk in that direction was the ability to be able to use a static front page. You just need to click on “Settings” and then “Reading,” and select which of your pages should be displayed as the static homepage. It is a...
During PubCon last week, Vanessa Fox and I managed to sneak away to lunch alone to have some catch up time since both of our schedules are a bit insane. After I calmed down from being attacked by a random sparrow (it was a really, REALLY big sparrow, ok?), the topic of conversation turned to Vanessa launching her new blog this week (uh, at least that’s the plan), Nine by Blue. We were discussing proper and effective tactics to use for promoting new blogs and I made the mention that bloggers could take a lesson from actors, writers and musicians...
As a blogger do you hold yourself to a posting standard? The blogs about blogging would certainly say so. I have always thought the blogs about blogging amusing. You know which ones I mean. The blogs that tell you what, when, and how to write, be successful and oh yeah get rich from your blog. Yeah you know which ones I am talking about. Those sites that discuss how to make money on your blog and give out pointers are some of the only blogs actually making money. So my theory slash tip slash advice would be for someone...
Link: http://www.avclub.com/content/feature... The A.V. Club reviews 27 popular blogs that spawned book deals. Some actually seem worthwhile, some are just bewildering. (Why is there a book of LOLcats? Why?) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment »...
Filed under: On the BlogsWhat in the world can you do with all those leftovers? The feast is done, the dishes are clean, but there's a huge pile of turkey, veggies, and savory treats to store and eat. But before the leftovers, there's the whole idea of basting. You could do it with your regular ol' baster, but that's boring. Why not try one that is turkey-themed? It'll get you gobbling all day.Permalink | Email this | Comments...
Image via CrunchBaseThe Google iPhone application I consider to be one of the most useful available, providing access to Gmail, YouTube, Maps, Docs, Reader, Picasa etc. A vast array of Google's services all tabbed in one location for ease of use. Google Reader plays an integral role in my online activity, why navigate to multiple websites and blogs when I can access the feeds in one location.Google is primarily known for it's search engine and trademark interface and has even led to the term Googling being coined to describe popular usage of the site. An update to the Google iPhone...
