Twitter THIS!
After a week in a very mellow groove where I only read friends' feeds, I'm catching up. It really doesn't take much to catch up on the geek feeds because the only topic I see over and over and over a...
The Evolution of Blogging, Cat Version
So blogging has evolved once more, and the talk of the town - or at least the talk of Austin, Texas during the SXSW Conference - is Twitter, that increasingly popular text messaging/blogging service f...
The New Version of Trillian is a Flash Application with Apollo-like Functionality
I feel like a giddy school boy right now after reading about Astra, Trillian's new client over on Webware and the Trillian Blog. The new client is built on Flash, and there is a web client …
History, Digitized (and Abridged)
THE National Steinbeck Center, at the top of Main Street in this farming community, exhibits an array of artifacts from John Steinbeck's life and works: family memorabilia, a passport from the 1960s a...
Interview: aXXo, The Most Popular DVD Ripper on BitTorrent
For those of you who never heard of aXXo, he is responsible for hundreds of DVDrips that find their way to millions of PCs around the world. Most of the rips are 700MB, made to fit on a single CD.
Gilberto Gil Hears the Future, Some Rights Reserved
ON Wednesday the Brazilian minister of culture, Gilberto Gil, is scheduled to speak about intellectual property rights, digital media and related topics at the South by Southwest Music and Media Confe...
E Ink's blueChute bluetooth enabled e-ink concept
Even with certain forms of e-ink displays starting to drip drip drip into real world settings — see what we did there? — it's still unlikely that you'll meet someone on the street with some e-ink tech...
Where neo-nomads' ideas percolate
New 'bedouins' transform a laptop, cell phone and coffeehouse into their office — A new breed of worker, fueled by caffeine and using the tools of modern technology, is flourishing in the coffeehous...
March 10, 2000: Pop!
2000: The Nasdaq hits 5,048.62, the high-water mark of the dot-com boom. It's all downhill from here. — The boom is more accurately described as a bubble, since it rested largely on wild stock spec...
Ten Things I Hate About You, Web 2.0
The phrase "user-generated content." Has there ever been a more condescending or less descriptive phrase for human expression and creation and connection? — The techmeme pile-on effect. Why does ev...
The Trouble With India
Crumbling roads, jammed airports, and power blackouts could hobble growth — When foreigners say Bangalore is India's version of Silicon Valley, the high-tech office park called Electronics City is w...
9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers
A few lessons learned in 7 years of blogging. — I attended the Writing, Better panel here at SXSW. I've been thinking about it ever since, both because I wanted the conversation to go on for a few ...
Apple buffs marketing savvy to a high shine
LOS ANGELES - Apple's marketing machine has done it again. — While the biggest names in tech were in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show in January showing off new gadgets and gizmos, Apple g...
Kathy Sierra Teaches "Human-ness" at SXSW
Kathy Sierra took her theme of passionate users to the next level at SXSW Interactive. Specifically, Sierra posed this question: Why do people go in person to a presentation that's being blogged live...
History, Digitized (and Abridged)
THE National Steinbeck Center, at the top of Main Street in this farming community, exhibits an array of artifacts from John Steinbeck's life and works: family memorabilia, a passport from the 1960s a...
5 Ways to Use Twitter for Good
I'm a big fan of Twitter, and have been using it heavily since the outset. For those of you not yet using it, Twitter is a communications gateway that asks the question: "What are you doing now?" Us...
YouTube blocked and unblocked in Thailand
Visitors to popular video sharing site YouTube were re-directed to a government web site from Friday to Saturday noon. — 2Bangkok has a post on the block … MICT stands for the Ministry of Communicat...