Jan

28

Last Scoble Post of the Day - Should A-Listers Link Here?

January 28, 2007 | 2 Comments

Damn yeah - but then Scoble linked to me twice yesterday, so I can’t exactly complain…
With regards to where A-listers should link: I think the general policy for any blogger should be to link to anything of interested to the blogger and his/her audience, no matter if the item is in a MSM publication or […]

Jan

28

What’s the Problem with Scoble?

January 28, 2007 |

I was thinking a bit more about the Scoble spat in the blogsphere right now and I am especially thinking about why Scoble doesn’t get more links. He says he produces two videos a day and gets very few links. I think the problem is with the fact that he is producing videos.
And don’t get […]

Jan

28

What is Engadget

January 28, 2007 |

In the context of the Scoble scandal (I am a sucker for alliterations), Mike Arrington says:
Engadget is no longer really a blog.
They still look like a blog, but they’re bigger than a lot of mainstream media businesses. And Robert is asking them which direction they are planning on going now that they’re so big. Will […]

Jan

27

Storm in Scoble Land

January 27, 2007 |

While I have been critical of Scoble many a time (such as when he became a political blogger during the Edwards announcements), he just linked to me in a post about how the big gadget sites did not link to his post and video on visiting Intel, even though the Intel 45nm press release is […]

Jan

27

Intel Getting Some Good Press Today

January 27, 2007 |

Thanks to the New York Times, Washington Post and the BBC, Intel’s new 45nm process is in the spotlight today. The engineering behind these chips is absolutely astonishing and so is the overall turn-around of Intel as a company over the last year (shame they had to fire all those people, though…).
Robert Scoble, too, has […]

Jan

26

Time Users Spend on Google

January 26, 2007 | 1 Comment

According to some recent data from Compete on how much time users on what website, Google ranks for underneath Yahoo and MSN. That seems so logical to me that I am really surprised anybody is surprised about this. Yahoo and MSN are destinations. Google is a traffic cop. The way I think of this is […]

Jan

24

Microsoft’s Wikipedia Problem Makes it Into the Mainstream

January 24, 2007 |

Even CNN (by way of an AP article) has taken note of Microsoft’s editing of a Wikipedia articleand put it in its front page. If we have learned anything from Adam Curry (and we haven’t learned much), then it is not to edit any article that even touches anything that involves us.
Microsoft Corp. has landed […]

Jan

24

Intel to Produce Dedicated Graphics Cards

January 24, 2007 |

It looks like our friends at Intel are going to get back into the graphics card business. ArsTechnica cites some recent job posting on the Intel Job Board (nice to see Intel hiring people anyway, I guess).
Intel’s Visual Computing Group (VCG) has the mission to establish the future of computing for high-throughput workloads. We are […]

Jan

23

Social Media and User Generated Content - End it Now?

January 23, 2007 |

While driving to work this morning, listening to TWIT and hearing all kinds of talk about “user generated content,” I couldn’t help but being struck by the paradox inherent in the term. Isn’t every kind of content, almost by definition, created by a user of something? And if I generate content, am I not a […]

Jan

23

Digg vs Reddit

January 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

I am pretty agnostic when it comes to preferring Digg over Reddit. I read Digg for the tech news and Reddit to see what else is interesting, but Steve Olson brings up a good point (among several):
About a year ago, I loved Digg. But today it is becoming increasingly sanitized. As certain groups become more […]

Jan

23

Performancing Closes Ad Network

January 23, 2007 |

Maybe this is what happens when you attempt to do business with the devil (PayPerPost), but Performancing is closing it Performancing Partners ad network:
I’m sad to tell you that Partners has to close. While I have every faith it could have worked, it wasn’t going to happen fast enough. Without more money invested it wasn’t […]

Jan

22

Housekeeping: We Have a New Feature: Related Items

January 22, 2007 |

Thanks to the good people at Semiologic, I have now added some fuctionality to the blog by adding their “Related Posts” plugin. Very easy to install, works with Wordpress 2.1 and returns very relevant results.
I think the backend is actually handled through a Yahoo API, but I didn’t look that far into it.
Anyway, kudos to […]

Jan

22

Great Google Maps Directions

January 22, 2007 |

I have seen mapping software mess up, but Google Maps telling a driver to make about a hundred U-turns is pretty funny.
Technorati Tags: google, maps

Jan

21

(with pictures) Sex Scandal of the Week: Michelle Manhart

January 21, 2007 | 2 Comments

The Spears Upskirt Scandal brought me so many visitors, I can help but post about the latest sex scandal in the blogosphere. Apparently, a drill sergeant named Michelle Manhart stripped for Playboy and was fired because of it.
You can find a the complete Playboy spread of Michelle Manhart here and some more pictures here.
I missed […]

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