blog | Jason E. Shao

Bad Spelling Costs $

Jan

28

2004

In Online Auctions, Misspelling in Ads Often Spells Cash – Such is the eBay underworld of misspellers, where the clueless and sometimes just careless sell labtop computers, throwing knifes, Art Deko vases, camras, comferters and saphires. [ “(extlink)NYTimes”:http://www.nytimes.com ] At last some ammunition for the strict spellers among us. Although, admittedly I don’t understand why ...

iTunes Music Store RSS

Jan

22

2004

Apple has just unleashed the iTunes Music Store RSS Generator which allows you to build a RSS feed of new releases, top songs, featured items, etc. to read in your Aggregator. This is amazing. Like push except so much better. Now all they need to do is support trackback pings on individual music pages, and ...

Portfolio

Jan

20

2004

Here are some of the websites and other work that I’ve done. More sites will be added shortly. Most sites are hand coded XHTML with CSS styling.

Waypath

Jan

19

2004

Waypath Weblog: New Version of our MT Plugin p. I’ve started using the Waypath plugin to provide a “similar entries on other sites” section in the sidebar. I had tried using the Google search feature built into MT, but wasn’t happy with the results. So far I’ve been somewhat happier with the Waypath items, but ...

Adopt (blog) a Reporter

Jan

14

2004

p. Why I Love the Adopt-a-Reporter Scheme. Why I Dread It. – A weblog devoted to watching the work of a journalist is democracy in action. It is bound to be educational, for the watcher and perhaps for the journalist who is watched. But there are reasons to worry. [ “(extlink)PressThink”:http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ ] p. Joy Rosen ...