My post about Consumating’s points got linked from a pretty awesome array of blogs, including Waxy.org, Torrez.org and Matt Haughey’s A Whole Lotta Nothing. It caused a 15x spike in this blog’s traffic, from an average of 50 visitors a day to 780 visitors on October 30. Woo! Thanks, guys!
Adam Mathes, the genius who cofounded Consumating with me, also plays the role of ombudsman for this web site. After reading my post about Consumating’s point system, he dug up this email exchange from April of 2005. At the time, he and I were working on the code we had written for […]
Dear Andre,
Don’t buy a Chumby yet. They are great, cute little devices that make you want to squeeze them and poke them and love them. Installing and configuring widgets is an extremely simple and transparent process. And there are lots and lots of widgets.
And there lays the problem. I think the […]
Sweet fancy Moses, they finally released a complete 100% unadulterated collection of Twin Peaks with all of the episodes AND the pilot AND special features. I already own season one on VHS and on DVD and two different versions of the pilot and the bad prequel, but I will totally be buying this three […]
The topic of member points and reward systems online and offline is interesting to me, so over the next few posts, I will be babbling about this topic in a new Ben Brown Blog Miniseries entitled “I Love My Chicken Wire Mommy.”
One of the things that I tell people who want to build an […]
My brother, who is a scientist, just posted a really interesting post on his infrequently updated blog that is related to the work he is doing in researching the dietary habits of skates. I am definitely not a scientist, but I will try to explain here why I think his work is interesting […]
I am excited about this: Dan Deacon on The Sound of Young America. I hope this brings us one step closer to a Liam Lynch / Dan Deacon / Jesse Thorn group project. That would be teh awesome.
God, I hope this is true. Rumor: Animal Crossing going the MMO route. I know this makes me a total loser, but I cannot wait to get back into Animal Crossing on the Wii, especially if I can visit my friends online without all of the ridiculous bullshit that was required on the […]
Everyone I know, meaning Adam, Andre and Andy, has recently mentioned a new videogame called Portal. Even though my name does not start with an A, and my website does not end with a .org, I do not want to be left out of the conversation on this topic. Unfortunately, my pals have […]
I just posted a blog entry on Merlin Mann’s 43Folders. It is called Why don’t you just shut up? and is about how much I love Gmail’s MUTE feature, and how much I hate everything else. I personally guarantee that reading this post will not make you dramatically more productive. Obviously not, […]
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