Entries Tagged as 'rant'
On the eternally approaching death of print media
So Tim O’Reilly notes that the San Francisco Chronicle is in trouble and this is another launching point for bloggers everywhere to promote the death of stodgy old media and the rise of miraculous new online media.
Let’s look at this one by Dave Winer. He’s got the solution to print media’s problems, he’s told you [...]
Cloak of Anonymity, Google Style
So some more old news, this article on Google’s new privacy measures. I was all excited to read this and see what the do-no-evil’ers were up to and it started off great when:
Google promised to wrap a cloak of anonymity around the vast amounts of information that the Mountain View-based company regularly collects about its [...]
On umbrella etiquette
Ok, so it’s a rainy (hail’y, actually) day here in NYC and I braved the streets. Now that I’m blogging I’d like to vent a little bit about people and their umbrellas. Apparently when 99% of people on crowded sidewalks open up their umbrellas they feel much like they’ve stepped into their own personal tank. [...]
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Why is the EU fighting iTunes?
So this whole EU vs iTunes thing is hopefully winding it’s way down. The whole thing though strikes me as a lot of posturing and politics w/out any real caring about the “people.” Ostensibly the EU complains about the lockin that happens when you buy and iPod and iTunes and buy music from the iTunes [...]
Is Google allowed to say this?
Was reading about Topix.net switching to .com and their (sadly too valid) concerns about SEO. They say that 50% of their traffic comes from search engines - 90% of that is Google. They ask Google for a little help on the best way to manage the transition. Google replies:
sites shouldn’t become overly reliant on traffic [...]
On the reaction to USA Today’s new social features
Here’s something that’s been bothering me. USA Today, relatively recently, relaunched their website with a new design and some interesting community features, notably comments and ratings. Reception of this was decidedly mixed. Some of the complaints are about the design and while I don’t really love it, I don’t particularly hate it either, it’s kind [...]
On using tables for html layouts
Ok, so the standardistas decry using tables for layouts, using divs and css is the one true way. You lose the ability to restyle things drastically by changing just the stylesheet, they say. But do you really lose that? It has been my experience that if you have a site with complex layouts, to do [...]
Hosting Review: APlus.net vs. Liquid Web
There’s a wide variety of hosting services that handle dedicated servers (not shared or colo) - for my purposes I group them into two bunches low cost and high cost. The difference between the two is generally defined by the Service Level Agreement - how quickly they guarantee they’ll help you out and how much [...]
Wrongroom? Wrong thinking?
It’s saturday and I’m waiting to head out so I thought I’d dredge up an old topic from my pre-blogging days, oh so long ago. It was a post about WriteRoom where dive into mark puts up a little rant. I found it through daringfireball, who’s opinions I generally agree with and Gruber was [...]
Palm hating goes on…
It seems to be the time of palm hating! Does that mean the contrarian view will prevail and palm will actually pull out of it’s nose dive? Well, my hope springs eternal.
Here we have an article on palm’s irrelevance, that begins by referring to another article on the lack of any outrage at all when [...]
