Category: General

Lee is traveling the world and just reported that in a Shanghai bookstore he saw two copies of Blogwild! NO WAY!

From WSJ (via Slashdot) Detractors say that the kids are wasting too much time online browsing dangerous sites, instant messaging friends, and posting to Myspace. Parents are worried that serious learning is being neglected in the quest to ‘dazzle up presentations with fancy fonts instead of digging through library books.’ Some parents however are ‘enthusiastic […]

The makers of the Blackboard elearning system have secured a patent on ‘Internet-based education support system and methods’ and have immediately sued a competitor. Thanks to the brainiacs on Wikipedia, there’s an entire collection of prior art/examples for virtual distance learning going decades – sometimes centuries – back. Better than that is the online reaction […]

Andrea and TIna nail. Again. Instead of sending an email out to your entire email database yet AGAIN, send a few to a couple of segments instead. Because once you start thinking of your customer database NOT as one gigantic monolith but as pockets of people in clusters, you realize you can say things differently […]

Dave found himself caught up in the JonBenet frenzy when one of his old, out of date posts was picked up in the media: And this, of course, leads to the realization that suddenly blogging can prove to be a real burden. Imagine you’re a political blogger and you keep writing article after article about […]

A response to our update of Six Figure Blogging, a recipient responded to our email with simply: Help!

Talked to Thomas Hargrove from Howard Scripps yesterday to give some reaction to their new survey: A survey of 1,010 adult residents of the United States by the Scripps Survey Research Center of Ohio University found that nearly a quarter of young adults say they read blogs at least once a week, compared to just […]

Today was a strange day in techie-land. My screensharing didn’t work for my afternoon course. The audio recording service had a clicking sound so we all had to dial back in. I sent a reminder about the keywords class starting today but sent the link with the WordPress course instead. and I had a collossal […]

I get out of the gym and there’s a voicemail from an associate producer of 60 Minutes. I immediately started thinking I have to get downtown and buy a new suit so I can tape with Morely Safer tonight! (Is he still alive?) (Sunday night dinner at the Wibbels house always included watching 60 Minutes […]

Ron and I watched a special last night on eBay. The big evolution of eBay was that suddenly the community was just as important as the commerce. And what always sort of blew my mind about eBay is how it was the ‘perfect business’ – no tangible produts, no warehouses, just relationships. All of this […]