A great "how to blog" series with Merlin Mann.

Quoted: A surprising and irreverent look at tech, trends, and fresh ideas.

Interesting post on how sitemaps impact the crawlers from Google and Yahoo. It's pretty incredible how fast Google is...

Quoted: Like any other person out there, I fall into habits, good and bad. Recently while working on a client’s website, I created a Sitemap and submitted it to the search engines, like I always do. I started to think if this really helps the site out and what’s the effect when I submit a Sitemap on the site.

Quoted: Alan Bennett has written a charming, albeit short and self-congratulatory (and reader flagellating) little story in "The Uncommon Reader." While I'd highly recommend the little book if you can find it free or cheap, it's rough to think that people will pay $12.00 for this, something so slight that it can be read in 1-2 hours. The cover is graced with

Quoted: The grandest and most stunning reading hall (Prunksaal actually translates as "Splendor Hall") I have personally laid eyes upon, the Prunksaal in the Austrian National Library is well worth your visit if you're of the "art and literature" persuasion. Compared to the other libraries we saw on this trip, the best thing about this hall is that you can

Quoted: An interesting piece from Public TV that resurfaced from people digging through the Channel 13 beta site. It appears to be from a show called "USA Arts: USA The Novel." don't you just love new freebies of your favorite artists. Thank you internets! Chapter 1: History: Chapter 2: Switzerland & Writing: Chapter 3: In the Office: Chapter 4: Chess:

Quoted: Once upon a time there was a man named Thomas Bowdler. Bowdler, a physician, published in 1807 an altered versions of Shakespeare that removed "offensive" passages in an attempt to make Shakespeare more suitable for women and children. According to wikipedia: His expurgation was the subject of some criticism and ridicule and, through the eponym bowdlerise

Quoted: Here's a trend I think Amazon should push - hotels offering Kindles loaded with classic books to their guests during their stay. I stayed at a hotel last year that offered Sealy Posturepedic mattresses, you know the ones with "your sleep number." While I didn't rush out to purchase one after the experience, I thought it was a really great way to try

Quoted: Readers of this blog will know that we're into beautiful books. Last week I visited Prague for the first time and managed to snap this (illicit) picture of the Baroque Library Hall at the Klementinum in Prague (clcik the photo to see it in grand size): The Baroque Library Hall is the home of Czech National Library and is home to around 20,000 books