Category: General

(via Podcasting News) Taiepei Times: Apple Computer Inc yesterday introduced a broadcast feature to its red-hot iPod digital music players in Taiwan, hoping to secure a bigger market among music lovers locally.

The hype from Google Talk is quickly dissolving. Initially it was a gift from the heavens for support Jabber – an open standard for instant messaging. Open standards are important because then no single company or service can own instant messaging and networks can be opened. Sadly, though, Google has chosen not to embrace this […]

Well this is sucksville – I was all excited about Amazon’s new Shorts program of selling brief works for 49 cents. They’d opened the program up – but only if you are the sole author of a book already in their store. Not yet… but soon! I was hoping put some of my plays out […]

Much ado: Steve Rubel’s post in which he explains his reason for rejecting a trackback from Jeremy Pepper has produced a blizzard of comments-26, along with three trackbacks, at last count.

Rep. Sue Myrick and other well-known cancer survivors have begun writing blogs about their bouts with the disease for the Web site Yahoo! Health. Among the other contributors to “Blog for Hope”: actress Fran Drescher (uterine cancer), TV reporter Sam Donaldson (melanoma), and comic actor Tom Green (testicular cancer).

As Clarice Starling would say: Why don’t you point that hah-parred perception at yerself? Maybe yer afraid to. The network is starting its own blog, Public Eye, that will wade into controversies over how CBS covers the news. Vaughn Ververs, editor of the well-known Washington political blog The Hotline, was hired to become the internal […]

(via Darren) Rob Hof over at Business Week notices: It’s still a mystery to me why some of my blog posts get a lot of comments, while others seem to get lost in the ether. Lately, though, I have noticed one pattern: When I ask for help, I get it.

PDF files on the web are sometimes annoying and very often unnecessary. But when they aren’t either of those things, we need to make them accessible for the same reasons we make other web content accessible.

From Dave: SEO Book’s Aaron Wall was sued earlier this week by Traffic-Power.com for alleged inaccuracies and lies appearing in comments other people have left on his blog. If this case goes to trial, it’ll set an important precedent in the blogging community and the Internet at large, answering a critical question, particularly for business […]

As a Class 5 hurricane bears down on the Gulf of Mexico, bloggers jump at the chance to capture the moment. Track the story on Technorati, and Flickr. Hope everybody is safe.