yancey:

My most desired Tumblr feature: a button in my Firefox toolbar that says “Add to Tumblr” that will let me follow any site using the Tumblr interface, as well as allowing me to heart and reblog whatever I want. Pretty pls?

I seem to recall somebody making a hacktackular version of this: bookmarklet figures out the appropriate RSS URI and submits it to a little DB, a little script periodically polls that DB of feeds and posts them to a Tumblr account set up for that purpose. By following that Tumblr you get all the content from those various sites.

Hm. Anybody else remember that and have the reference? If not, I might need to build it…that would actually be really, really useful.

Update: Ah, I see a number of gotchas lurking in the project, but I’m intrigued regardless. Need to think about this a bit more.

Also update: superfeedr!

ryanbrown:

youngmanhattanite:

Nobody lives in Brooklyn. Nobody who matters, anyway.

That’s exactly what I like about it.

For me, Foursquare is the place where I draw a sharing line in the sand: if I don’t know you, don’t know anything about you, and have never visited the city where you live, why would we become “friends” on Foursquare? I don’t see the benefit for either of us.

That said (and I’m looking at the Foursquare crew as I say this, not Foursquare users), I’d still love to see a little more information in those friend request notifications. Forget offering a Linkedin-style text box so that people can leave the default text unchanged 90% of the time, give me useful information.

If I don’t know you but ten of my Foursquare friends are friends with you, that’s useful information; if I don’t know you but we consistently check in at the same places, that’s useful information.

There are reasons I might establish a Foursquare relationship with someone I don’t actually know, but right now it’s too hard to figure it all out. I’m not willing to dig through someone’s friend list and checkin history to get at this kind of stuff, so I go with the lowest-effort approach: the ignore button.

I suspect that I’d still use the ignore button most of the time, but I’d still love the chance to find a few of these strange and interesting little convergences.

Missed Google ad due to thirsty 5yo, but CBS told me that I can watch super bowl commercials on demand. “Demand” seems like the wrong word.

Hm. Does the per-pound price of (uncooked) chicken wings go up in the 48 hours before Super Bowl Sunday? Speak to me, oh Invisible Hand…

“My daughter is the one dressed all in pink” is not a helpful thing to say at an ice skating rink full of 5yo girls.