As the elections are underway, I have taken down CongressCorral.com with the idea of relaunching it with the new class of legislators in early 2025. I will probably do some other upgrades as well. I will probably also take down NosyRaleigh.com and do some work on it as it was one of my first sites […]
Begone, Annoying and Irrelevant LinkedIn Ads
I finally got tired enough of those irrelevant LinkedIn ads to do something petty about it. Now I have a bootleg Chrome extension which allows me to destroy LinkedIn suggested posts and ads which get on my nerves. The vid shows the shatter effect but I also have the option of a baseball bat, fireworks, […]
Find the Most Unhinged Google Alert
I’ve invented a game called “Find The Most Unhinged Google Alert”. This is a challenge to discover the phrase that will get you the craziest news stories from your monitoring service of choice. The rules are simple: no proper names, no topics, nothing particularly targeted. A generic phrase descriptive of the most possible chaos, as […]
Local News America Gets Faster Search and Smushed Bugs
Local News America aggregates the RSS feeds of over 1000 local news sources and makes them searchable by keyword and/or browsable by state with links back to the original content. I’ve smushed some bugs and made the search faster.
Adding Two New Tools to SearchTweaks.com
I don’t know about y’all but I am having my usual wild Friday night working on my search tools. I’ve just added two new tools to SearchTweaks.com; if you do any local news searching I think you’ll really like at least one of them. Like all of the site they are free to use and free of ads.
Search by Year (1995+) and State News Sources: Peabody Search
It seems like every day you read about some new fake web site or site network spewing disinformation or AI slop into Google results. One of my strategies for getting around this search crud is restricting my search to authoritative sources, like FCC-licensed outlets, or known resources, like NPR stations. But Google makes this difficult. […]
Super Edu Search, Powered By Diffbot
Let me tell you about a search tool of mine I just upgraded using Diffbot’s new Web API. It’s an upgraded version of Super Edu Search that I’m calling Super Edu Search Powered by Diffbot. I bet you have added site:edu to a Google search at some point. It’s an easy way to instantly elevate […]
New dataset of GLAM (Galleries / Libraries / Archives / Museums) RSS feeds available on GitHub
RSS feeds aren’t dead! And to prove it I’ve started working on a new dataset of GLAM (Galleries / Libraries / Archives / Museums)-related RSS feeds. I’ve uploaded the initial version — 399 GLAM-related feeds, all human-verified, most updated this year (a couple dozen updated in 2025, nothing earlier than that) — to GitHub ( […]
Fixing A Few Issues With RSSGizmos.com
I’m doing some more site housekeeping! If you’re into RSS, especially creating keyword- or location-based feeds, check out my site RSS Gizmos. I fixed some problems with my URL fetches and now the site is going great. RSS Gizmos is a collection of ten tools for finding, examining, and creating RSS feeds. If you’ve been […]
Upgrading BlogHiking.com: More Results, Site Muting
WordPress blog explorer Blog Hiking has been upgraded with more results and a couple of new features.