So you want to get a Tablet PC
Marc Orchant, Warner Crocker and I had a discussion on the current OnTheRun with Tablet PCs podcast that touched on how to choose the right type of Tablet PC for you. The expanding number and types o...
From Your Living Room to the World, via Podcast
WHEN Kim Maffin learned that she had multiple sclerosis about a year ago, she decided to use a new technology to reach out to others coping with the disease. She started making podcasts - recorded au...
An Open Letter to Forbes Magazine
I don't know you and you don't know me, but I do know a few editors and reporters at Forbes and have been reading it for more than 20 years. I've found it to usually be both intelligent and provocati...
Google Wants to Dominate Madison Avenue, Too
IN many ways, Larry Page and Sergey Brin seem an unlikely pair to lead an advertising revolution. As Stanford graduate students sketching out the idea that became Google, the two software engineers s...
The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium
ON Monday morning, news networks were breathlessly covering two entirely different hurricanes. The first blew off the screen in all its fury, droplets speeding by, stop signs spinning, palm fronds fl...
RSS usability sucks
At the Blog Business Summit yesterday we discovered just how bad RSS usability sucks. Molly Holzschalg was on stage with me and visited a blog and was trying to find its RSS feed. She couldn't find ...
Free Remote KDE Desktops from CosmoPOD.com
CosmoPOD.com offers free remote KDE desktops over NX. Anyone can sign up to have their own desktop accessible from any computer with a network connection. CosmoPOP uses KDE's Kiosk framework to ensu...
Wordpress.com' RSS feeds suck
Update: since writing this post WordPress's feeds started validating. That needs to be pointed out because I've found the WordPress team is remarkably fast at listening to its users and implementing ...
What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate
JOHN F. STREET, the mayor of Philadelphia, perhaps put it best at the announcement of a new corporate headquarters for the Comcast Corporation early this year: "As Microsoft is to Seattle and Coca-Col...
The Testosterone Meme
After checking out the tech.memeorandum.com web site for a few weeks now I've made several observations: — First, most of the stories covered are about business, rather than technology. The compani...
Tag Camp Day Two Notes and Podcast
The second and final day of Tag Camp was certainly interesting. Like the first day, there were three formal channels of presentations, as well as a wide variety of informal discussions taking place i...
OPML Validator Beta
It's great to see that Dave Winer is working on an OPML Validator - this is a big help to aggregator developers who wish to ensure OPML import/export compatibility with each other, so my thanks to Dav...
internet - Typepad seems blocked
The webhosting service typepad seems blocked in China. A few people asked me to check it earlier today, but since the services was having major problems because it was moving from one data center to ...
Blogniscient v. Memeorandum
Ben Ruedlinger's Blogniscient relaunched today with a completely new look and feel. An old screenshot of the service is here. — Blogniscient is a blog news organizer that, like Memeorandum, uses a ...
Attention Bunny
When Robert Scoble reported on our late night conversation after the Berkeley meat-up Monday night, I briefly panicked when I realized he had really gotten what I've been talking about with regards to...
Google Wants to Dominate Madison Avenue, Too
IN many ways, Larry Page and Sergey Brin seem an unlikely pair to lead an advertising revolution. As Stanford graduate students sketching out the idea that became Google, the two software engineers s...
From Your Living Room to the World, via Podcast
WHEN Kim Maffin learned that she had multiple sclerosis about a year ago, she decided to use a new technology to reach out to others coping with the disease. She started making podcasts - recorded au...
I know very little about Google or Googlebase (but I'm writing this anyway)
A tidal wave of speculation washes over the internet every time Google releases, comes close to releasing, or accidentally exposes, a project. — Case in point. There is, apparently, something in th...
The Extra-Large, Ultra-Small Medium
ON Monday morning, news networks were breathlessly covering two entirely different hurricanes. The first blew off the screen in all its fury, droplets speeding by, stop signs spinning, palm fronds fl...
The Testosterone Meme
After checking out the tech.memeorandum.com web site for a few weeks now I've made several observations: — First, most of the stories covered are about business, rather than technology. The compani...
Control Freaks: Modding and the Clash with Law
Modding is childish and eccentric and deeply serious. People are investing major chunks of disposable income and (astonishingly, in a flat-out work-obsessed society where no one has time) untold hour...
The $500 Gaming Machine
The Budget Gaming PC Challenge — If you are like this writer, your passion for the latest and greatest technology is bigger than your wallet. Let's face it, most of us can afford to fork over the o...
Paperless challenge: here's the map
Several readers have asked me to share my planning map for my Paperless Challenge. This afternoon, I created a MindManager map and dumped all of my current thoughts and ideas into it. — Here's the ...
GPS PRO Dog collar with SMS
We've seen a whole lot of crap that people can hang on their dogs, but rarely do we see a genuinely useful product like the GPS PRO Dog collar from Environmental Studies that helps your pet without hu...
How many times over should you pay for software?
Wouldn't it be nice for software developers if they got paid every time someone used their software? Believe it or not, that's how some old-school software developers interpret the notion of software...