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Blogging Becomes Mainstream

By 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services, and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Blogging was established...

12 Things I Hate About Google

Google's purchase of Writely sort of drove me over the edge last week. When I saw the news confirmed, I exclaimed out loud to myself, "Oh, give me a break." A break from what, freakishly talking to...

Video: Scoble Tells the Comment Trolls To Go Back to Digg

Robert Scoble caused a stir yesterday with a post on how tech bloggers are failing our readers. We all chase the same stories, get spun like a top by the PR machine, and can’t sustain a...

Facebook outage

I did a little Twittergram shortly before noon just as Facebook was coming back up off of a 1.5-hour outage. Twittergrams are 30-second audio messages that I can send to my followers on Twitter. I...

Open source hardware dinner

I was at an interesting dinner last night with a new company called Bug Labs. Dave Winer was there and wrote it up. That of course caused all sorts of interesting discussions over on...

Technology Bloggers, what are they good for?

Dare Obasanjo asks “what are those A-list technology bloggers good for?” He’s absolutely right! (I’ve been saying that a lot today — I’m in a very agreeable...

TechCrunch TwitterGrams coming…

I’m off to the TechCrunch party. I’ll be sending audio reports into my Twitter account via the TwitterGram service. All of them will be less than 30 seconds long. Watch my Flickr feed for...

Valleywag on “drunken employee” in datacenter

Ahh, Valleywag demonstrates one more time that they’ll print any damn thing sent to them without any care whatsoever about whether or not such a thing is true or not. First of all, if an...

VC looks behind the numbers of social networks

Jeremy Liew is a venture capitalist with Lightspeed Partners and is becoming one of my favorite VC blogs. Anyway, tonight he digs into the usage numbers of the top social networks. I learned some...

Do Pageflakes and Netvibes have any chance against Facebook?

Richard MacManus asks an interesting question about Pageflakes and Netvibes: what chance do they have? Facebook is becoming the home page for many of us. Why? Because our friends are a lot more...

It’s a small world, congrats to Scott (both of them)

Scott Hanselman is one of the most talented “programmer bloggers” out there. He’s been pretty heavy on Microsoft stuff for years, which is fine cause there’s millions of...