Avoiding email bankruptcy (part 1)
I thought I’d forward the discussion of email charters and intelligent agents a bit, I wanted to point to a couple of interesting follow-up pieces: Michael McCracken posted Email Charters and Lists as...
View ArticleAvoiding email bankruptcy (part 2)
Continuing the discussion from this article… Okay, you’ve blocked out time to handle email. Now what? You need a plan. I’ve tried a bunch of different workflows for handling my inbox. I’ve ended up...
View Articlemore than you possibly want to know about RSS feeds…
Okay, I think I have the RSS feeds figured out. Maybe. Here is what I’ve found out about why (some) folks are magically seeing partial RSS feeds from my blog all of a sudden, when I’ve told it to...
View ArticleSell Netflix to Amazon? That Might Be Crazy Enough to Work
Sell Netflix to Amazon? That Might Be Crazy Enough to Work: This whole Netflix-Qwikster split had a fair number of people wondering if Reed Hastings had lost his mind. Hastings is no dummy, though,...
View ArticleThe President’s Post-SOPA Challenge: All Right, You Come Up with a Solution!
The President’s Post-SOPA Challenge: All Right, You Come Up with a Solution!: The Internet and politics have a way of magnifying each other’s faults. Depending upon which source you read this...
View ArticleThe Day the Internet Grew Up
A VC: A Post PIPA Post: these two bills were drafted by the MPAA and the RIAA and walked into Washington without an iota of conversation with the technology industry. I can’t tell you how many Senators...
View ArticleDon’t think about this one too hard…
Attorney generals fear Google’s new privacy policy is an “invasion of privacy” | VentureBeat: The new policy, Google has insisted, is meant to simplify things, but users, Congress, and now state...
View ArticleNathaniel Borenstein, Creator of MIME Format
Seven Questions for Nathaniel Borenstein, Creator of MIME Format – Arik Hesseldahl – News – AllThingsD: The Internet isn’t known for looking backward at its history all that often, and yet once in...
View ArticleRequiring Captions Might Keep Pinterest From Getting Sued Into Oblivion
Requiring Captions Might Keep Pinterest From Getting Sued Into Oblivion: Pinterest has tried to avoid legal trouble by having a Terms of Service that places all the blame for copyright infringement on...
View ArticleThe Enyo team moves to Google
Exclusive: HP’s core webOS Enyo team is going to Google | The Verge: The HP team responsible for Enyo — webOS’s HTML5-based application framework that debuted on the TouchPad — will be leaving the...
View ArticleA couple of words about Meg…..
HP’s Meg Whitman is cautiously optimistic that tech giant is stabilizing | VentureBeat: Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman said in a conference call with analysts that she is “cautiously...
View ArticleA Brief Word Regarding Gizmodo’s Continued Lack of Class
A Brief Word Regarding Gizmodo’s Continued Lack of Class » TheMacAdvocate: I’m guessing we all saw it, given that we’re all tuned in to most things Apple. I won’t link to it, because Gizmodo is the...
View ArticleYou are an idiot if… (the Facebook edition)
Here’s the latest entry in the “You are an idiot if…” contest, this one for Facebook. A teenage girl wasn’t thinking, and after helping Grandma count her large stack of money (that evidently isn’t in a...
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Why I don’t give money to the EFF
The EFF can suck it: Micah Lee and Peter Eckersley for the Electronic Frontier Foundation: Apple’s recent products, especially their mobile iOS devices, are like beautiful crystal prisons, with a...
View ArticleCurated Thoughts on Curation
Curated Thoughts on Curation – Marco.org: Link to great stuff often, and you’ll build an audience. But subsequent linkers don’t owe credit to every intermediate linker. It’s nice in some cirustances as...
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community management at OSCON
I wanted to point community management folks at some discussions and resources that are coming out of this year’s OSCON. David Eaves did a keynote and a longer talk on the Science of Community...
View ArticleMarco on recovering from the “Mat Honan hack”
Like many geeks, I’ve been watching the Mat Honan saga unfold with both trepidation and horror. The good news is that ultimately, if you ignore time lost and money spent and the amount of stress caused...
View ArticleI am Twitter’s Worst Enemy
On Twitter — James Duncan Davidson: While Twitter has done a lot of things of late that may be disappointing or annoying or even infuriating—such as pulling the rug out of the 3rd party ecosystem that...
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Yes, I’m back on Flickr. Here’s why:
Yes, I’ve started using Flickr again. Why? Well, things change. One non-trivial reason: Marissa Mayer. The road back is still long and hard, but I now have enough confidence she’ll pull it off it’s...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay: We will sue copycat site for copyright infringement | Ars...
The Pirate Bay: We will sue copycat site for copyright infringement | Ars Technica: “We are outraged by this behavior,” an anonymous Pirate Bay spokesman told TorrentFreak. “People must understand what...
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