Archive for June, 2008

Scoble is Wrong About Blog Comments Being Dead

I think Robert Scoble suffers from the disease of early adopter-itis. What does that mean? Well, like many tech bloggers (including myself), Scoble is an early adopter. This means he tries new things way ahead of most of the people on the Internet. When you’re way out ahead, the problem is that you forget that [...]

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Writing Headlines For Social Media or Search Engines?

The other evening, I attended a search engine optimization meeting here in the Tampa area. It was organized by Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal. Since he does SEO for a living, I asked him his thoughts on how social media was changing the field of SEO. One of the questions that I raised was [...]

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Twellow Helps You Find Fellow Twitterers

As Cordiva would call this, this is "awesomesauce". It is called Twellow.

Twellow is a new site which serves as a directory of Twitter users. A who’s who kind of thing. Various Twitter people are organized into categories and you can then better find them. If you are looking for other bloggers, for example, check [...]

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Tip For Better Blog Writing

Sometimes I find that I get my best work done at a coffee shop. In my case, I hit Panera Bread for the free coffee refills and the free wifi.

Sure, I’ve got a nice home office. I’ve got the big Mac Pro in the office with three nice monitors attached. I’ve got the super fast [...]

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Out With the Old, In With The New

Since this is also a personal blog, I sometimes will talk about purely personal things. And this post will be case in point.
I finally upgraded my car. For the last 7 years, I have been driving a 1997 Honda Accord SE. It now has 161,000 miles on it. While the car sure isn’t going to [...]

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Compare Your Feedburner Subscriber Numbers

We all know that Alexa allows you to graphically view your Alexa rank, traffic reach and page views and compare with up to 4 other sites. Alexa isn’t super accurate, but it is good for observing trends and for comparisons.
This morning, I ran across Feed Compare. This is a cool little website which allows you [...]

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PCs are for Fart Huffers

Enjoy!

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Associated Press Versus Bloggers

In another case of new media versus the old, the Associated Press has decided to try to impose some guidelines on bloggers by defining what constitutes “fair use” of an AP news story. Fair use is a legal principle which states that it is OK to quote snippets from another copyrighted work without permission of [...]

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Plurk API Could Change The Race

A few days ago, my response to Plurk was: BORING! I don’t like the interface and I think it is too hard to track down and add friends. I’m sure they thought the horizontal timeline was a novel concept, but I personally find it to be incredibly frustrating.

Today’s news: Plurk is set to release an [...]

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Bloggers + Apple = Techmeme Echo Chamber

OK, we all know that bloggers are fascinated by Apple. We love to follow what Apple does. I personally really dig Apple hardware and I am generally more excited about what Apple does than what another computer company does. Good. Groovy.
But, let us look at Techmeme right now:

That entire red area is all echo chamber [...]

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