Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Huge, massive, global screaming and cheering for the latest addition to the Problogger family. Congrats Darren and V!

Jupiter Research came out with a report announcing that 70% of the Fortune 500 will be blogging by 2006. Diva marketer Toby Bloomberg asked Jupiter for some clarifications on where they got their figures and they basically told her it was none of her beeswax. Then Fard Johnmar (who actually dropped the $750 for the […]

Ron and I caught Meryl Streep vamping it up in the new movie The Devil Wears Prada (based on the novel written by the former assistant to the editor of Vogue). The movie is a good laugh and both Streep (the icy editor) and Ann Hathaway (the assistant) turn in great performances (along with Stanley […]

From Business Week: [The] Tampa-based interactive ad agency called MindComet, also runs a side business that pays bloggers to write nice things about corporate sponsors — without unduly worrying about whether or not bloggers disclose these arrangements to readers. Murphy is launching PayPerPost.com, which will automate such hookups between advertisers and bloggers and thus codify […]

Widgetoko offers a daily harvest of all sorts of goodies to add to your blog so you can 1) impress yourself with your technical acumen and/or 2) distract your readers from joining your ezine. Still cool stuff! http://www.widgetoko.com/

More panic about those batshit insane bloggers from a journalist at The New Republic: “Moron”; “Wanker” (a favorite blogofascist insult, maybe because of the similarity between the most strident blogging and masturbating); and “Asshole” have been the three most common polemical gambits. I said that the blogosphere had the quality of fascism, which my dictionary […]

Joyous news and thank you to everybody that voted for me! See all the winners… and congratulations to the nominees and I mean that seriously – there were some amazing folks I was up against. I feel like I just won on The Swan!

I’m kidding. The four finalists in the Mega Marketing Makeover are up and ready for voting – which site do you think needs an overhaul? View the finalists…

As a companion to the last post about Tim Berners-Lee on net neutrality is an analysis of the telecom companies bait-and-switch grab where they were paid $200 billion to build out broadband fiber-optic infrastructure and instead they simply pocketed it and kept on going. It’s juicy, it’s sordid and it’s true. By 2006, according to […]

Sir Tim breaks it down: If I pay to connect to the Net with a certain quality of service, and you pay to connect with that or greater quality of service, then we can communicate at that level. If you still are unsure how this affects every single online business. Read his essay.