Jeremy Rue's Page

Clay Felker died to day. The pioneer of the print magazine was immoralized by the New York Times in one of their classic obituary style articles, written in the only way the NY Times knows how. But, what fascinated me the most when reading about Felker’s life, was his persistence during the 60s to reinvent this [...]

Okay, I feel like I have been waiting a very long time for this. And now it finally has happened. Someone has built a completely Web-based Flash application over at http://sproutbuilder.com. This is a momentous occasion for me. I feel like over the last two years, I have been wishing for this very thing to well, [...]

OK, here is a little tidbit a few people might not know about me. Back in my first year of college, I was a computer science major. Then, journalism stepped in the way. I was taking photos for the campus newspaper part-time, which seemed like a whole lot more fun than programming classes. So, one afternoon [...]

Over the last few months I’ve been listening to podcasts during my morning and evening commutes. I’ve never been much of a podcast listener, but now that I have a 45 minute commute via BART train, I’ve turned into an avid listener, even an obsessed fan. I can’t leave home without my earphones, and if [...]

Apparently a new feature from diet.com is making the rounds and becoming quite popular. The latest is that you can text message the name of a popular restaurant followed by a menu item to “D-I-E-T-1″ or 34381, and it will return all of the nutritional facts of that item. News of this feature has gone [...]