Jan
31
Travel Day
January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment
I will be on the road today - so expect close to no posts.
If I do get to post it is thanks to Dave Winer who taught me that one can get online outside of Continental President’s Clubs, so who knows… I have almost four hours to kill in Newark after all and there […]
Jan
30
Holland Legalizing File Sharing? Not So Fast…
January 30, 2007 | 1 Comment
TorrentFreak reports that my beautifully flat birth country of the Netherlands is about to ban DRM and legalize filesharing.
While that makes for a great headline, neither is the case. Instead, the “internet spokesperson” of the PVDA (a major Dutch, somewhat leftist party), proposed a tax on internet connections so that the extra money could go […]
Jan
30
Very thought provoking interview at ZDNet: Power blogging 101
In it, we get a short summary of a panel with Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine, Peter Rojas of Engadget and Elizabeth Spiers, founder of Dead Horse Media, which publishes Dealbreaker.com. The panel was moderated by Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion.
Here is a comment from Jeff Jarvis that jumped […]
Jan
30
After reading the comments on digg and this post on performancing, I decided that the snap preview plugin wasn’t worth my readers’ time anymore (Am I the only one who remembers the awful 80s band called ‘Snap’? Their hit song was “The Power”).
Nick Wilson offers some very reasonable arguments besides the fact that the pop-ups […]
Jan
30
Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web is talking about how Microsoft can respond to the challenge of online office suites today:
In 2007 we expect to see good progress in the adoption of Internet-based productivity applications, such as Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zimbra. At this point, the ‘Web Office’ space is in its infancy - but […]
Jan
30
Ask a Ninja is now the most profitable video podcast. Federated Media is giving them a $300.000 upfront payment and 60 percent of ads revenue.
Congratulations to the funniest show on the net.
Even mainstream trade publication Mediaweek, even though their report seems a bit condescending has to agree that there is something to the Ninja.
Jan
30
Vista Launches - and I Don’t Care
January 30, 2007 | 1 Comment
Apparently Vista launched today. No, I didn’t live in a cave for the last year and I know that eventually, I will be using vista just like everybody else. But for now, I don’t care.
Chris Pirillo points out that the TV commericals are beyond bad, and I can only agree with that, but, according to […]
Jan
30
Google’s Book Search
January 30, 2007 | 3 Comments
The New Yorker today looks at the history of Google’s Book Search project. The response to the project has been very mixed. While some publishers and writers love it, others have voiced strong arguments against it. Techdirt sums up the problems with the project, though I have a slightly different, very subjective take on this.
My […]
Jan
29
Consumerist Steals Picture From Josh Bancroft
January 29, 2007 | 1 Comment
Out of all blogs out there, the Consumerist would be the last one I would have suspected of stealing a Creative Commons licensed photo from a fellow blogger, but that’s exactly what happened to my fellow Portlander, Josh Bancroft of Tinyscreenfuls.com today. The post is on Verizon’s FiOS phone service being potentially interrupted when the […]
Jan
29
Anil Dash writes about using Movable Type and Word 2007 today and given that I never tried to use Word as my blog editor, I thought I give it a quick spin.
I have to admit, it is a good editor – just a shame it hides the link function behind the Insert tab instead of […]
Jan
29
Paul Boutin at Valleywag says Scoble taught us all a few lessons about video and blogging this weekend.
Here is my take on his arguments:
1. Video is overrated. I agree - to the degree that long videos are overrated. But its a two-edged sword. When Scoble posted the shorter, more produced video last night, the […]
Jan
29
Marc Orchant from ZDNet writes:
Because I’ve been working frantically to keep up with the evolution of the Ribbon for my forthcoming Wiley book about Outlook 2007 I’ve been living with the Ribbon for nearly a year full-time. In that time, I’ve seen an interesting conceptual leap in HCI (Human Computer Interface) design evolve into a […]
Jan
29
In Five Years…
January 29, 2007 | 1 Comment
are we going to say that Verizon was smart to reject Apple’s iPhone deal?
Technorati Tags: apple, iphone
Jan
29
As people are starting to move to Office 2007 (read Paul Thurrott’s review here), here is my #1 tip for those who aren’t quite used to the ribbon yet are want to hide the ribbon:
Control+F1 - hides the ribbon automatically and gives you the cleanest, leanest interface Office can offer.
Bonus: When you press ALT, […]
Subscribe
