ajaxwrite
I played around with ajaxwrite this morning. It's the new whiz-bangy web-hosted word processor, that's getting all the blogpress. I really don't need a new word processor. I already have one that works...
View ArticlePaul Graham on Patents
This is my favorite excerpt from one of the best-crafted and even handed essays on the difficult topic of software patents, offered by Paul Graham:When you read of big companies filing patent suits...
View ArticleeMetrics gets a B-
So I just got back from the eMetrics conference in Washington DC, and I give it a B-.I should qualify at the beginning of the post (before the entire Web Analytics community proclaims a fatwa against...
View ArticleThis is targeted marketing
I rarely learn solid marketing practices from big companies. That's a brutal generalization, but it's far more true than not (thus rendering it, by definition, a "generalization." See how that works?)....
View ArticleWishRadar is bending my mind
So WishRadar is up and running now, in case I haven't told you about it in person. It's a free service that lets you track the price and availability of items on your wishlists (CDs, books, DVDs, etc.)...
View ArticleAquaStupid
Being the firm believer in good dental hygiene that I am, I decided that it was time to invest in a new toothbrush after the last one I purchased quite literally disintegrated into a fine mist from...
View ArticleBlog Accountability
I saw this story about a blogger who is really angry at Lycos for deleting her emails and then treating her like a total jackass. The read is compelling and Lycos comes out looking, to put it mildly,...
View Article300
I'm so excited to see 300 in the theaters when it opens that I'm literally vibrating right now.Don't judge me.I consider myself a fairly educated guy. I have degrees. I read lots. I go to museums. I...
View ArticleGoogle Street View Just Kills
Every time I think that I've just about had enough of Google and their inevitable dominion and lordship over all things informative, electronic, and webby, I see something like Google Maps Street View,...
View ArticleLondon Olympic Logo
I just read Jeff Veen's piece on how jarringly sucky the recently unveiled 2012 London Olympic logo is. Admittedly, the man has a point. In the Chinese Hell of Evil Tetris, this is where I imagine all...
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