Category: General

Every few months I see a burp in the world of microformats – here’s some more details: Microformats are quick-and-dirty standards for expressing common data types. The standard example is a microformat for reviews which lets a blogger encode the expected data name of the reviewed thing, number of stars, commentary, etc. in a standard […]

Socialtext, who has worked with thousands of companies has released their collaborative software with an open-source compliant license. Socialtext Open is released under a standard open source license, and contains all of Socialtext’s enterprise grade code aside from enterprise management and enterprise integration tools. Socialtext also announced the availability of its Technical Professional Service, a […]

So far, over 12,000 web surfers have signed on as friends of the Corps in response to the latest military recruiting tactic… The Marine Corps MySpace profile… featur[es] streaming video of barking drill sergeants, fresh recruits enduring boot camp and Marines storming beaches… So far over 430 people have asked to contact a Marine recruiter […]

How to Encrypt Your Email With Mozilla Thunderbird.

Mark Stosberg gives Five Power Tips for Thunderbird.

27 of the Most Useful Firefox Extensions

(via BlogAds blog) John Marshall of Talking Points Memo on the differences between writing for a magazine and writing a blog: I think the blogosphere, in contrast to more staid venues for writing, is something like the much more popular and participatory sort of theater culture you had in the 19th and well into the […]

BlogHer – the Lilith Fair of blogging – back with a 2-day fest in San Jose. Here’s the full scoop…

My girl Suzanne (sorry I missed this weekend!) chimes in with her lessons learned from PRWeb: On the eve of the American Idol finale, I posted a news story tie-in release. ‘Untrained American Idol Winner Taylor Hicks Proves Raw Talent Can Beat Conservatory Training. (I posted about this process.) I’d posted two other times in […]

Michael went to go see Michael: Michael’s objective when he takes you into his Dreaming Room is to reach for the impossible – to separate from history – to break free, rethink, retool, reengineer, reinvent, reenergize, to discover how to create a bigger future for you and your business. He did this with each and […]