Entries Tagged as 'blogs'
Rolled out Disqus for #comments commenting
You know, if you travel in my august circles, you’d already know about Disqus (pronounced “discuss”). It’s the comment service that everyone’s talking about. Yup, that’s right, in my circles everyone talks about blog commenting services. Don’t be jealous.
I’d been reading and seeing how it was the bomb, most recently a post by Fred Wilson. [...]
Categories: blogs · navel gazing · social networks
Vlogs and Video Comments? Why?
Video, yeah, I heard it’s the big thing on the internets. I get it. YouTube gets a bazillion hits a day and Hulu rocks your socks. But seriously, video has it’s place and the things it is good at. It is also very bad at many things. Let me splain my position on this.
First let’s [...]
Categories: blogs
Staying on top of things
Part of my job is keeping on top of what’s going on in technology - it changes very quickly and it’s important to have a reasonable idea of at least the broad strokes of the wider industry. Also, it’s key to know what’s going on in the animal kingdom - I’m never going to close [...]
The TSA blog v. the Palm blog
I came across the TSA blog (glamorously named “evolution of Security”) the other day (via). It is surprisingly, surprising to me at least, a fairly interesting blog. It’s young - started at the very end of January, but it’s got several posts already.
A lot of the first posts were simply about security points that they [...]
Print v. Digital Followup
You know, after my last rant I was thinking more about this annoying thing I see a lot on the interblogs where they love to predict the imminent demise of print publications. Part of it stems from that fact that apparently so many bloggers see no difference between an untrained blogger spouting off (like me) [...]
Categories: blogs
Bloggers v. Print Media, round 809832
It’s been a tough week for print media… the bloggers have been ganging up on them again. First I stumbled across this TechCrunch piece - If “Real Journalism†Fails As A Business, Should Government Step In? It actually was an interesting read - it talked about whether the tough times print media is having now [...]
Gizmodo’s prank, Civil Disobedience??
I like Gizmodo a lot - Google Reader Trends tells me so. But their prank at CES, was, in my opinion in poor taste and I felt that the banning of one member was a reasonable and measured response. And then I kinda forgot about it… but now Gizmodo has put up there post in [...]
Internet Identity and Anonymity
So I was reading this piece on design observer about, more or less, the use of anonymous handles on the internet. The author suggests this:
Having a pseudonym is not about, as some argue, building a brand story or mystique; it is about masking identity, which is inherently deceitful. Unless one has a good reason — [...]
Bloggers v. The New York Times
Huh, so long ago (in 2002) David Winer made a bet with the New York Times that 5 years hence blogs would rank higher the the times on google searches for the 5 top news stories of 2007. Well it’s 2007 and someone looked into that.
It turns out that Winer was right (blogs won 3 [...]
PageRank, worth it or not?
UDPATE: Andy Beard posts about more PR craziness. While I think it’s unfortunate and makes PR more unreliable, I still don’t believe that it is worthless - comparing the number of heavily affected sites vs. the total number of sites on the internet, I think only a very tiny portion are really affected. What is [...]
