Jan

28

Couple of Monday Morning Thoughts

January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments

 

Having a Techmeme headline brought about 100x as many readers to my blog as having a byline, even though the post never made it past the middle of the page.
My first Techmeme headline came from the least controversial, most quickly written post I have done in weeks. It was just a reply to […]

Jan

27

How I Use Twitter

January 27, 2008 | 6 Comments

Dave Winer today asked for advice for Twitter newbies. I’m not sure I have a lot of advice for newbies (given that Twitter is still a young product, aren’t we all newbies and figuring out how to use it anyway?). However, I can write about how I use it.

I never use the website. I use […]

Jan

25

Minor Google Reader Update: Now Shows Time of Publication

January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

(Via Google Operating System) If you want your feeds still warm out of the server, you might have to look somewhere else than Google Reader. In its latest round of updates, Google made information about when an item was published and when it was actually added to Google Reader (they also updated the favicon):
Besides a […]

Jan

24

Zoho finally useful - adds footnotes and endnotes

January 24, 2008 | 2 Comments

One of the main reasons I do not regularly use any of the online office suites was that none of them had support for footnotes and endnotes. My texts are full of them (on some pages, there is more text in the footnotes than in the body of the text).
Finally, Zoho has realized that this […]

Jan

24

PC Mag Doesn’t Understand the Value of DRM-free Music

January 24, 2008 |

Lance Ulanoff, the editor-in-chief of PC Magazine posted an editorial about the dangers of DRM-free music today… yes - you read that right - according to Ulanoff, DRM-free music is going to kill the music industry (why we would be even bothered by that is a completely different question):
DRM haters say that DRM-free is the […]

Jan

24

A New Digg Revolt

January 24, 2008 | 3 Comments

There is a bit of an uproar in the Digg community right now about what some people think is a recent change in how stories get front-paged. Basically, it seems as if top diggers now need more diggs to get on the front page and diggers are upset:
Unfortunately the rules to the game have never […]

Jan

23

Gillmor Group is broken - Steve Gillmor starts NewsGang Live podcast

January 23, 2008 |

I have always had a thing for the old Gillmor Gang. After Gillmor split with Podshow, he went dark for a while, but then he resurrected the Gang as the Gillmor Group.
I always liked the dynamics of the group, but in the last few episodes, Gillmor got more and more edgy, Calacanis‘ rather annoying antics […]

Jan

23

Google Health is Coming (soon?)

January 23, 2008 |

According to Google Blogoscoped, we might be getting closer to seeing Google Health in action. For now at least, there is a login screen, though it only takes you to a 404 page for now:
With Google Health, you can:* Build online health profiles that belong to you* Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies* Get […]

Jan

22

Roll Your Own Reddit

January 22, 2008 |

Reddit announced some new features today. Most importantly, they will soon give you the opportunity to run your own reddit:
You will be able to make three kinds of reddits: public, restricted, and private. A public reddit is just like the current reddits: anyone can view and submit to them. A restricted reddit allows anyone to […]

Jan

21

Pownce Coming Out to Party

January 21, 2008 |

Pownce, a Twitter-like web app and the brainchild of Digg founder Kevin Rose, will be coming out of beta tonight.
They also added a few new features, most importantly, an easy way to import friends from other services like Digg and Twitter:
Users can now bypass the tedious process of adding new friends to yet-another-social-network. The new […]

Jan

21

Wordpress offers 3GB of space - not a big deal

January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment

Update: Andrew Watson put together a nice comparison chart that nicely illustrates the different offerings of the big blog hosts. 
Here is another nice example of complete non-news making a splash in the blogosphere. Wordpress has announced that it will now offer 3 GB of space to its bloggers.
Really! 3 GB. Can you imagine any […]

Jan

20

No attribution

January 20, 2008 |

Louis Gray wrote what I think is an important post today (sadly, it’s diving down the list on Techmeme rapidly) about the fact that some bigger “A-list” blogs tend to be rather stingy with their attributions to news that broke on “B-list” blogs (I’m just waiting for Calacanis to jump out of the woodwork to […]

Jan

19

Is Joost Dying?

January 19, 2008 |

Short answer, yes.
Mathew Ingram and MG Siegler are wondering today if internet TV provider Joost has much of a future. From MG:
Well if they’re anything like me, I open it once in a while to see if anything new has been added, maybe watch a few clips, then shut it down 15 minutes later. […]

Jan

18

Podshow gained 29144% last year?

January 18, 2008 |

Update: Podcasting News and Mashable picked the news up as well, citing the absurd Compete numbers completely without any critical reflection…
There are a lot of reasons why PodShow is growing - but the biggest is that they’ve done a good job of getting talented, attractive video podcasters that create content that’s of interest to […]

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