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What am I reading?

There's so much information available that I often come across stuff I find terrificly interesting but difficult to find time to cover. Other items are orthogonal to the topics I focus on here but still of interest to me and, potentially, to you too. So I've set up a link...

Tags: Blogs

Blog posts 2007-07-28

Biography meme

Chris Brogan has kicked off a biography meme â€" the DIY Autobiography Kit â€" following a self-revelatory post he published yesterday. Sounds like fun so here goes...A Quick Sketch Biography of Marc OrchantThe thing most people know me for is... either my passion for gadges or my deep and ongoing...

Tags: Blogs

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Does it make any sense to "hate" Microsoft?

Marc Wagner at the ZDNet Education IT blog asks a question that has come up here and elsewhere many times. "Why do so many people hate Microsoft?" Marc begins his post exploring some of the antipathy that exists between the pro-Microsoft and pro-*NIX crowds with relative dispassion and points to...

Tags: Windows, Mac, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-05-21

Cory Doctorow on taming the trolls

Great, great post on the InformationWeek blog by Boing Boing founder, author, and deep thinker Cory Doctorow on how to deal with trolls. It turns out that nuclear science is a great metaphor for managing community and the secret lies in "twiddling the rods" in just the right fashion. Just...

Tags: Blogs

Blog posts 2007-05-15

WordPress client for the Nokia N800

Just got back from a trip to New York City and catching up on RSS feeds I see that a newWordPress cleint for the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet has been released. WordPy is a pretty full-featured client for the Maemo Linux OS and runs on both the Nokia 770 and...

Tags: Gadgetry, Blogs, Software, Utilities and Add-Ins

Blog posts 2007-05-14

A collection of Mac tidbits

Yesterday was a good day if youre a Mac user. Here are three nice things I came across while catching up on RSS feeds last night:Flickr has released a new Universal Binary of the Flickr Uploadr tool for the Mac (can I buy a vowel please?). According the the download...

Tags: Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Mac, Hardware, Google, Gadgetry, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Instant e-mail message form: Contactify

I just came across Contactify via Digital Inspiration. This is a very nice solution if you want to add a way for people reading your blog to be able to contact you without a lot of heavy lifting. Its also a great way to add a "contact me" link...

Tags: Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Blogs, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-04-21

Pssst... Vonage, want to buy some IP?

On VoIP Watch, my friend Andy Abramson tells an interesting story today that is both topical and illuminating in a higher altitude sort of way about the vagaries of intellectual property, patents, and litigation. According to Andys story, it appears that US Robotics (nee 3Com) holds a patent that is...

Tags: Mobility, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-04-19

Wagstaff hits a home run on "death of software"

This is a post I wish Id written. WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff, writing on his loose wire blog, sums up the sturm und drang about the "death" of Microsoft recently announced by Paul Graham with an elegant and hard to argue observation. What were really talking about has less to...

Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-04-09

Are you Twittering?

Ive been using Twitter for a while now and must admit that it has stuck in a way many social tools have failed to for me. Part of the reason, I suspect, is that its very low effort. But more to the point, many of by online buddies are using...

Tags: Blogs, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-03-09

WordPress is the clear leader in blog platforms

At least according to this poll being conducted at the ecto web site. The results below are based on 9000+ votes recorded. I can in no way attest to the amount of ballot stuffing going on here - the poll does put a cookie in your browser after you vote...

Tags: Blogging, leader, blog, Wordpress

Blog posts 2007-03-09

Steve Rubel: Top five Gmail Hacks for info warriors

Steve Rubel offers up some great ideas on how to hack Gmail, other Google apps, and web services like del.icio.us and Twitter into a serious information collection, aggregation, and organization system. Its a lengthy post and in it Stev documents very clearly how he has mashed up a variety of...

Tags: Blogs, Mastering the Inbox, Productivity, Software, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Friday funnies: Google vs. the chimps

NetworkWorlds Paul McNamara wins the award for funniest thought of the day: Just reading the news like everyone else this morning when the question slaps me upside the head: Which is more impressive: Google Apps or chimpanzees fashioning spears from sticks?

Tags: Blogs, Google

Blog posts 2007-02-23

Battelle interviews Michael Wesch - the web 2.0 video

Unless youve been hiding under a rock, youve seen the Web 2.0 video created by Michael Wesch, a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Its been screaming through the tubes and has been posted and commented on all over the sphere. John Battelle just posted a really fine...

Tags: Blogs, Mobility, Productivity, Software, Web Apps

Blog posts 2007-02-19

Multimedia publishing comes of age at DEMO 07

Ive just gotten home from DEMO 07 and Ive had a chance to reflect on the event and the companies who came to Palm Desert to spend six minutes on stage explaining why they exist, what problem they solve or opportunity they address, and why potential customers should care about...

Tags: Software, Blogs, DEMO, Demo 07, Ive, Vuvox

Blog posts 2007-02-03

New Mobile 2.0 application directory

Rudy de Waele,who is a contributor to Richard MacManus Read/WriteWeb blog, has just launched a new wiki-based directory of companies in the Mobile 2.0 space. Navigation is typically wiki-fied you navigate using an outliner hierarchy in the left sidebar. A number of popular apps are already listed and I expect...

Tags: Productivity, Mobility, Software, Blogs, Mobile 2.0, mobile marketing

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Riffing on "Instant Journalism"

I read Andy Abramsons post on Instant Journalism yesterday and was amazed at the amount of traction and comment it generated on a Saturday traditionally a pretty slow day measured in blog reflex speed. He covers a lot of ground in discussing the implications of mobile bloggers (and evolved writers...

Tags: Blogging, Podcasts, Instant Journalism

Blog posts 2007-01-07

Performacing add-in now ScribeFire

Just a note that the Performancing plug-in for FireFox was not included in PayPerPosts acquisition of the rest of the Performancing portfolio and the add-in has been renamed ScribeFire. Theres not much on the new site just a welcome page but more info is promised. If you use Firefox...

Tags: ScribeFire, Blogs, Web Apps, Software, Utilities and Add-Ins, Productivity

Blog posts 2006-12-31

No surprise - I'm Batman!

I love comic books – always have. I had an amazing collection as a kid which I dearly wish I had held onto but thats another story. Theres a meme rippling where bloggers like Jason, Steve, and Michael are taking the "Which Superhhero are you?" quiz. This is one Ill...

Tags: Blogs

Blog posts 2006-12-30

No... I did not get a Vista laptop

Just in case you were wondering, Microsoft and Edelman did not send me an Acer Ferrari laptop loaded up with Vista. So no ethical conundrum for me. I did, however, receive a Vista Launch kit with some fun geegaws and gadgets which, I assure you, will in no way influence...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Mac, Gadgetry, Software, Blogs

Blog posts 2006-12-28