Check out this new website by Barnes and Noble called http://quamut.com.  It’s a how to guide of everything from making sushi to setting up your own website.  The website categorizes its how to guides by general categories such as house and home and computers and technology.  The categories break down into more specific topics like automotive/garage and programming/software.  What I like about the site is the in-depth treatment of each topic.  Other web-based how to guides throw a million topics at you, but with little actual information for each one.  By contrast, Quamut devotes pages and pages of information on each topic.  Today’s “how to” is (surprise!) blogging.

Interestingly, I just tried looking up the word “quamut” on dictionary.com.  The word doesn’t exist.  I guess companies are getting very creative about coming up with names for their websites because there are just too many cybersquatters out there hogging webnames for no good purpose other than to try and sell it to you!  My thinking - if you don’t use the web name for six months, you gotta give it up.  That’s my gripe of the day.