On the one hand, I hate paywalls. I spend much of my day reading the news and paywalls are the bane of my existence. I want the news, not a login page. […]
Paywalls Everywhere You Go? Get to the Goodies With These Two Paywall Ladder Bookmarklets
IFTTT / Reddit Alerts Filling Up With Porn Spam? Here’s What To Do
A little over five years ago I wrote an article called Keeping Up With Reddit: Use IFTTT, Not Google Alerts. While I don’t use Reddit as a social network, it has been […]
Backstop Your Google Alerts With Bing News RSS Feeds
Oh to be Odin. That guy didn’t need any Internet monitoring tools. He had Huginn and Muninn, his ravens, who flew around the world and brought him information. But I don’t have […]
Weird Rabbit Hole: Spam on Medium
I don’t read Medium posts as much as I used to since the paywall was put in place. But I still keep an eye on it; there are plenty of good writers […]
Google News Alerts: the Coronavirus / COVID-19 Edition
I hope you won’t think I’m being flippant or trivializing anything when I say the last 24 hours have been one hell of a ride; they have, but not in a good […]
