As many of you have noticed, the frequency of my writing at hypertext.net has slowed down to a crawl over the last year+. The reasons are legion, some of which are public (e.g., my relentless job) and some of which aren’t. Long, complicated story short, it’s been a pretty rough couple…

Let’s be honest — life before Instapaper kind of sucked. Frankly, it’s difficult for me to fully remember what it was like. Looking back, it seems so silly that we time-shifted TV before we time-shifted…

Yesterday Facebook released Notify, a push-notification app I’ve come to really enjoy over the past few months. It’s no secret that I’m a news junkie to the nth degree, and am always excited to try out any system or service that lets me aggregate and/or consolidate my consumption.