When developing with Rails, I often find myself wanting to use the truncate or pluralize text helpers from a controller when I’m setting the flash no…Read more

Jason Calacanis: That’s why we didn’t launch an RSS reader or blog search engine, and that’s why we told everyone who wanted to do “business develo…Read more

I just updated the wikipedia entry for Jørgen Leth with the fact that he’s no longer going to be doing the Tour de France for Danish TV2. Someone bea…Read more

Congratulations to Dave Winer on selling weblogs.com to Verisign. Unlike those other deals, this one has pretty good potential for the users. It’s a …Read more

Another acquisition, and though not nearly as big as that other one, it leaves me asking that same question: What’s in it for me? I’m a frequent r…Read more

The Economist: (behind a paywall – and, whoa, they updated their site to a new design as I was writing this) This is what Bill Gross has recently s…Read more

From Dragon Dog Press’ Glossary of Writing Terms Slushpile – What the editors call the overwhelming amount of unagented and unsolicited material th…Read more

According to folks at the magazine’s advertising department, The Economist has a circulation of 4,093 in Denmark. The European average is 4.5 readers…Read more

Strunk and White elementary rule no. 17: Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary se…Read more