When MG Siegler invited me to join him and a couple of other tech bloggers in moderating the Elite Tech News Reddit (aka the l33t reddit), it seemed like a fun experiment and with almost 1600 subscribers now, it turned out to be pretty successful experiment as well.
With the reddit project under way, we decided [...]
Scoble has the scoop that Google Docs is now going to be available offline in a video over at fastcompany.tv (Update: and here is the official Google announcement, too).
As expected, it is running on top of Google Gears (meaning it’s available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, but doesn’t work with Safari) and looks and works [...]
I just had some fun delving into the dark underbelly of the blogging world, thanks to this email that showed up in my mailbox:
Greetings Frederic,
My name is Jason Thompson and today is the official release of my latest software creation, known as Blog Commentator. I like to check the latest tech news at your site, [...]
This is bait-and-switch at its finest: I was reading the coverage of a new web stats service called Woopra launching on TechCrunch this afternoon and, because I’m a sucker for stats and always game to try a new product, decide to register for it and check it out.
I go ahead and sign up through a [...]
It’s Sunday afternoon and I thought it wasn’t going to happen, but Gabe Rivera himself has announced that we do have an official bitchmeme for the weekend.
So what happened?
Basically, Mark Evans wrote a post about why it is so difficult to write original blog posts and why there are so many me-too blog posts.
He [...]
<rant> I’ve been reading a number of blog posts lately about how the news that is important to you is magically going to find you.
Is it really?
Let’s think about that for a second. You stop subscribing to most of your RSS feeds, hoping that the information that is important to you is going to float [...]
Fridays tend to be slow news days. Just look at today, nothing very interesting is happening except for some 3G iPhone speculation.
In most industries, that would mean people go home early. Not so in the tech blogosphere. All those bored writers have to do something after all (fresh air is highly overrated) and so [...]
With very few exceptions, I find unboxing videos absolutely, horrendously boring. But this one, of a 15″ MacBook Pro, is different. Just watch and keep the volume down so that nobody thinks you are watching one of those ‘other’ videos…
Credits to MG Siegler for bringing this to my attention.
I contacted the guy who did the [...]
Ed Bott uses last weekend’s ruckus over Apple ‘forcing’ Windows users to install Safari on their machines to launch into an interesting rant about the echochamber effect on Techmeme:
Techmeme is the Short Attention Span Theater of the blogosphere. It’s an echo chamber. It encourages reactive, uncritical thinking. The blogswarm gets outraged by whatever they see [...]
I got an invitation to try out toluu a few days ago (thanks Louis!) and after I first went to the site, I have to admit that I had absolutely no idea what was going on until I read the FAQ.
Basically, it’s the new defunct ‘Share Your OPML’ with a little social-network and a recommendation [...]
Usually the high-point of every Internet meme (just before it disappears back into the dark corners of the Internet) comes around the time the big media outlets start reporting about it. On Monday, the New York Times picked up the ‘rickrolling’ meme and lead the article with a summary of the “College Basketball Game Gets [...]
The Silicon Alley Insider reports that the growth “US paid clicks” on Google’s Adsense network has come to a screeching halt in January and February. Given that, in the same time-span, Google market share in search has gone up, these results look pretty bad:
Google had 515mm US paid clicks in February, which is up only [...]
Like most bloggers, I can’t help but keep an eye on the analytics data for my blog now and then. March has been quite a good month for the Last Podcast. Actually, March has broken every traffic record on the blog since it started. There were more visits, more pageviews, more incoming links, more comments, [...]
CNET is cutting 10%of its staff. It’s not immediately clear where these cuts are coming from (administration/journalists etc.), but given all the news around CNET, I guess most people inside the company saw this coming. I mostly read CNET’s blog – the more consumer oriented stuff never really interested me. I think their blogs are [...]
