Jake Savin

“Have no fear of perfection: you'll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí


Jake’s Brainpan

  • Google API

    The Google SOAP API is making quite a splash. It’s at the top of the Daypop.com top 40 right now, and rising. Looks like Daypop users like the Google API almost as much as they like the new iMac. Does that mean that webloggers have a disproportinate number of geeky Macintosh users? Not sure about… Continue reading

  • OPML in Cocoa

    Steve Zellers is working with OPML display in Cocoa (MacOS X). Continue reading

  • GoLive and Radio

    Paolo Vlademarin of evectors made a new Theme for his Radio weblog, using their Remote Edit WYSIWYG template editing tool. Remote Edit integrates editing of Radio templates with common WYSIWYG tools like Adobe’s GoLive. Paolo’s got a screenshot for us too. Continue reading

  • 4/1/2002

    John Hiler: We are the Blogs. Journalism will be Assimilated. “It’s when you tap the collective power of thousands of weblogs that you start to see all sort of interesting behavior emerge. It’s a property of what scientists call complex adaptive systems and it’s enabling weblogs as a collective to become more than the sum… Continue reading

  • Radio Community Server

    Radio Community Server 1.0 released Important pages: Pricing, Frequently Asked Questions, Download. Googlewhack take 2 Finding a Googlewhack isn’t all that difficult if you have a somewhat decent vocabulary, a little creativity, and a few minutes. This one took about 5 minutes to find: immodestly kinesthetic I think the real challenge is to find one… Continue reading

  • Googlewhack!

    Earlier, I saw Dave’s note about a page, which I will not link to in order to preserve it’s partial Googlewhack-iness, and realized that it’s not one. (Sorry Dave.) According to this page, a true Googlewhack must consist of two search terms, both of which appear on Dictionary.com, which are searched for without surrounding quotes.… Continue reading

  • Journalists who Blog

    JD Lasica: Journalists who blog: “With their mix of personal insights, strong opinions and informal writing, weblogs… are showing what works well in the online medium. Unfortunately, personality, opinion and first-person writing are not attributes that leap to mind when one thinks of your average newspaper, offline or online. That’s too bad, because most journalists… Continue reading

  • Now I can see when you flame me, baby!

    Here’s a new little lick for all you Radio people: You can now get a counter for the number of comments people have posted, in response to your weblog posts. It’s simple: First, update Radio.root. Then go to the Comments prefs page. Scroll down to the Comment text field, and add a <%commentCount%> macro. When… Continue reading

  • Flame me, baby!

    New Radio UserLand feature: Comments. “The Comments feature adds a link to a popup window for each item on your weblog, allowing readers to discuss your observations, answer questions, or drag you down a notch or two with a nice juicy flame.” Continue reading

  • BlogApp for MacOS X

    BlogApp for MacOS X “supports any Blogger API (XML-RPC) compatible site like Blogger, and Movable Type.” Features include spell checker, drag & drop, editing multiple weblogs, and Weblogs.Com ping. Continue reading