Archive for April, 2008

Big Blogger Mistake You Shouldn’t Repeat

Yesterday, I published a fairly technical article yesterday over at PCMech. It was a post about DirectX 11 and what’s coming in it. It was a guest post by a guy named Nathan (I’ll just leave it at first name). Being as busy as I am, I gave the article a quick scan, made a [...]

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Tampa Bay Blogger Dinner

I have privately griped to Rich (my video guy) how most of the tech conferences seem to happen on the west coast. Being down here in Tampa, Florida sometimes feels a little alienated.
That is starting to change, and I intend to play my role in changing it as well. Just a small indicator of this [...]

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Spammers = Assholes

For the last several days, I have been getting bounce emails containing gibberish. This morning, I get this in my email:

That’s right. Some asshole is out there mailing penis spam with MY email as the return address. I wouldn’t be surprised if MY email is being added to blacklists.
Chances are, one of my PCMech readers [...]

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Taking the Daily Dosage of Fukitol

Last night, I went to bed with a fever. I held out long enough to finish the PCMech live show on Wednesday night. Of course, I was high on Tylenol because I had a headache. Then, immediately after the show ended, my body ached and I felt cold. Yep, a fever. So, I turned in [...]

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Another Reason Twitter is Cool

I was shopping for airline tickets this afternoon. I needed a round trip from Tampa, FL to Phoenix, AZ. I’m going out there for an internet marketing retreat put on by Harris Fellman. It was a bonus offer for people who bought Product Launch Formula 2.0 through him. I was going to get PLF anyway, [...]

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Alert Thingy 1.3 - Talk About Timing

What a case of crazy timing. The day after I compare Alert Thingy to Twhirl, Alert Thingy comes out with a new version that pretty much addresses my major beef. The app now allows you to follow tweets in addition to FriendFeed, allowing the app to be used on both. It even goes to the [...]

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Twirl Versus Alert Thingy

The new media douchebags of the world have been excited about services like Twitter for a while now. When FriendFeed came out, the excitement went into full orgasmic response.
But, of course, both of these services are YET another website to go to. FriendFeed is nice because it consolidates your activity from many other sites into [...]

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Blogger Gold Rush - Is It A False Hope?

There are certainly a LOT of blogs out there. Many of those bloggers want to make money with their sites. Some actually start the blog with the express purpose of making money with it (usually a mistake). But, do they deserve it?
Louis Gray, a new Silicon Valley blogger that pretty much came from nowhere and [...]

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Alexa Overhauls Stats: You Seeing Changes?

Alexa has long been used as a source for data on traffic for websites. Problem is, it has also long been known for being wildly inaccurate.  It is a decent indicator of trends, but not actual traffic. Well, Alexa has announced it is changing the way it counts traffic, according to a story on Techcrunch.
From [...]

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Yahoo Strokes Google, Puts on Show for Microsoft

Yahoo is in a pickle. Microsoft is setting up for a hostile takeover of Yahoo and Yahoo is doing everything it possibly can to puff it’s chest and look valuable.
Part of this strategy is apparently to woo Google. Yahoo was to run a 2-week trial of running Google Adsense ads on the Yahoo properties. Yahoo, [...]

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