Opinion

Who’s Going to Gnomedex?

Next week, I am flying to Seattle to attend Chris Pirillo’s annual blogger’s conference, Gnomedex. I expect to meet up with a bunch of geeks. It will probably be the most dense collection of Iphones in the state of Washington. This is my second year going to Gnomedex and, quite frankly, I’m using this as [...]

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Fairness Doctrine Apply To Bloggers?

Some very cryptic words came out of the mouth of the FCC Commissioner today. Those words were “government dictating content policy”. These are part of comments regarding the Fairness Doctrine and how it could end up applying to Internet content. From the story: FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell raised that as a possibility after talking with [...]

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When RSS Feed Ads Go Wrong

This comes from the Techcrunch feed: Looks like there is some work to do in the accuracy department here.

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Seems Like Twitter Separates The Old From The New

As a person who runs a technology blog which has been around a long time, I am in a very weird position. PCMech was started back in 1997. That’s a LONG damn time ago. Before the Internet was that big a deal. Back when everybody had their heart skip a beat at the sight of [...]

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Using Ad Blockers: Is It Stealing?

We have had this debate before over on PCMech, but I’d like to lay it out here on this site as well. This website, as you can see, currently has no advertising on it. And my plan is to keep it this way. Like anybody else, I prefer to use a website with no advertising [...]

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Tech Blogging – Too Crowded? Too Hateful? No, Just Changing.

Those of us who are into tech blogging probably realize by now that this is a VERY saturated field. There are a LOT of tech bloggers out there and it is hard, if not impossible, to find a unique angle to a story. Recently, Jason Calacanis made a very public departure from blogging. Instead of [...]

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Iran to Kill Bloggers?

When you see stories like this one, it makes you step aside and really think. As you know, yesterday was July 4th – Independence Day – here in the United States. I am actually able to make a living by blogging. We don’t have any governmental agency trying to regulate us (yet). But, over in [...]

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Curse Of Being an Early Adopter and Tech Blogger

I woke up to an interesting tweet from Robert Scoble this morning: How far ahead of the world are all of us? When I showed researchers at HP my live Qikking cell phone they couldn’t believe it. I found it, first, a bit ironic seeing as Robert recently declared blog comments dead when, as I [...]

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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 [...]

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When Nerds Attack

I wrote a post over on PCMech a few days ago about Firefox 3. I called the browser a memory hog and I posted a screenshot of how much memory it was using. Little did I know the nerd shitstorm I would unleash. Even though I run a Mac, I have found that bashing anything [...]

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