Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Plasticbag illustrates the convergence of TV and social software. Looks like when you watch a TV show with someone over the phone or by chat.

Well it was fun before these bastards got involved.

Much ado about FeedBurner worries: What position will FeedBurner users be left in if it goes offline, goes pay, or cancels the account? I asked this question a few months ago and then learned that I can use a simple mod_rewrite command so the link to my feed still stays coming from my server. I […]

Yahoo search now searches for works in the creative commons. Nice move, guys!

As a student of the Buddhist philosophy, I found the following article from the Great Lakes IT Report particularly interesting. Nepal is known as the Land of Buddha and is home to the largest and highest mountains in the world – the Himalayas – with the most renown being Mount Everest. Now, even in this […]

According to a survey conducted by security firm Mirapoint and market research company the Radicati Group, nearly a third of e-mail users have clicked on links in spam messages. One in ten users have bought products advertised in junk mail.

Having been involved with the arts for a number of years, I’ve noticed that while there are a lot of creative types who are perfectly at home making their own websites – and now blogs – there are others who plug along pretty well as if the Internet never happened. I believe a lot of […]

Fiona Apple finished recording Extraordinary Machine in May of 2003, but Sony/Epic executives did not think it would sell enough copies to justify the cost of promoting and distributing it. Rather than spend more money, Sony/Epic decided to cut their losses and not release the album at this time. The album has been leaked online […]

I keep mulling over this diagram: (that was supposed to be a coin but seems more like a glowing stargate) I’m always chiding my blogging clients to remember the two main reasons people go online: to be entertained or for utility. How can your blog be entertaining today – not just snarky and bitchy (that […]

Another sign of the shifting digital sands. For a small company, whitepapers seem stuffy, overly-formal, and marketroid-speak-laden. I won’t rule out ever writing one, but for now, weblogs are doing the trick. All you need is a collection point to tie together your “greatest hits” from the blog.