Many years ago — 15 sounds about right — there were a lot of resources for making your own custom search engines. Finding a group of sites you want to search (or […]
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Create Super-Focused Twitter Searches — And Follow Them With An RSS Feed
Being able to monitor Twitter in a useful way for links is something I’ve been thinking about (okay, fretting over) for a long time. Nuzzel helps to a certain extent, and I […]
Using a Google Sheet to Build Search Queries for Unknown Topics
I spent a lot of time building tools at work. There were things we needed to automate, but I didn’t have a server or any kind of programming platform to put things […]
A Big Pile of Wikipedia Tools
When I wrote my Wikipedia article last week, I did some poking around and playing with various tools to see how I could make my editing as painless and productive as possible. […]
More Advertising Bullshit From Facebook
I know Facebook is busy working — possibly on a dating app or self-driving hoodies or the most efficient ways of stacking huge piles of cash — but I sure wish it […]
