Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Going totally offtopic, I wrote an essay on my personal blog about a fascinating behavior in my family called the Wibbels Fit. Contains profanity and hilarity.

Margaret Atwood (anyone still reeling from Handmaid’s Tale?) debuted the latest in book signing technology: The award-winning Canadian author, has developed an electronic remote signing device that allows writers to stay at home but sign books almost anywhere in the world.

Dennis Kennedy gets to the point on whether or not companies need ‘blogging policies’: If you have the normal sort of well-drafted employee manual or guidelines, Internet or technology use policies and corporate communications policies, it seems like you should have blogging covered. I just cannot see how blogging raises issues that are any different […]

I wrote a post for Darren’s beginners series on TrackBacks: Summary: TrackBacks automate the interlinking of blog posts, but often don’t contribute to search engine ranking. TrackBacks are notoriously difficult to explain and is an exercise that makes a great judge of the skill of any self-described ‘blogging expert.’ So here I go! You get […]

I told you a few days ago: MySpace Will Eat Your Babies. Remember playing Dungeons and Dragons and how it had all this occult stuff and some parents groups went crazy that it was promoting satanism and violence? And then came along video games? And heavy metal? A Greensboro, North Carolina (USA) parent was mortified […]

There must be something about this time of year – and it doesn’t matter your climate. Everyone I talk to that does this whole work-from-home thing is antsy. I had two colleagues tell me that they are making efforts to get out into the 3-d world. And that’s the word their using. Not the ‘real’ […]

Susannah backtracks a bit: So, really, I wonder about the phrase I’ve used a million times: “Blogs are about building relationships.” Are they really? Don’t most relationships grow, change, deepen? Is there really a chance for that with a blog, or does it just feel like it? I really don’t see why it doesn’t and […]

With each new Google-gush, the tech set drools more at the propsect of a web-based office suite. This basically means a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation maker and database that is entirely web-based – browser-based – portable. Think of taking Gmail and extracting it into MS Office. The concerns so far have been security, performance and […]

“Two years ago, a tiny software company garnered publicity by paying bloggers to write about it. Now, Marqui Inc. has landed a $7.5 million Series B funding round.”

Remember that post about Blog Power? Well Blog Herald wrote a similar opinion and it looks like they are threatening them with libel. I guess I’m next with a libel suit. You can email your libel threats to andy at andywibbels dot com. Thanks.