Amazon Plog

Several blogs have reported that Amazon apparently added a new beta feature called Plog, which they define as a personal blog on their website. It sounds like a plog is mostly a different and slightly more up-to-date way of presenting recommendations to the user. On their website they list a few of the more popular blogs as examples, but to be honest I don’t see what their plog feature has to do with blogs....

June 3, 2004 · 1 min · 144 words · DigitalHobbit

Bloglines temporarily down

Argh… After getting back from a late night shopping trip to IKEA, I tried to hit Bloglines as usual in order to catch up on the blogs that I’m reading, only to find that the site is down for a few hours (undergoing plumbing, as they put it). This made me realize how much I already depend on this site (or at least got used to it), after only having used it for about 1-2 weeks....

May 31, 2004 · 2 min · 313 words · DigitalHobbit