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The Blogger Protection and Google

August 25th, 2009 at 11:32 am » Comments (0)

This is a great discussion on CNN about the outing of the blogger.  I may have to add to this discussion further.

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Arrington and Sethi are Hatfield and McCoy

August 3rd, 2009 at 1:36 pm » Comments (1)

Dennis Howlett writes today about the lawsuit involving Sam Sethi and Mike Arrington and Interserve, Inc., als known in our wrold as TechCrunch.  As a disclosure I remember this riff vividly as my friend and partner Tris Hussey was involved in this problem and other friends, Marc Orchant and Oliver Starr were also part of [...]



Twitter About To Open A Can of Tweets

July 1st, 2009 at 1:17 pm » Comments (1)

I am wondering how this will play out but I just had an opportunity to read through a TechCrunch article by Robin Wauters where it was uncovered that Twitter, Inc. may begin reaching out to people that are using Tweet in their applications or in their businesses and asking that they refrain from the practice.  [...]



Hosted Blogging Applications; Another Example Why They Are Not For Me

February 6th, 2009 at 10:37 pm » Comments (1)

I am constantly finding reasons why I am not a proponent of hosting blogging plans. I am a Wordpress supporter yet I don’t recommend hosting your blog on Wordpress.com, and in spite of the Google mantra of doing no evil, I tell many to run away from Google’s application Blogger. In a recent article by [...]



Truth Can Lead To Involuntary Transparency

July 12th, 2007 at 6:10 pm » Comments (1)

Transparency always comes at a price.  Normally the price is honesty and integrity, but sometimes it can come in the form of justice and wrath.  While following along with Twitter today, Anil Dash of Six Apart provided a link to a post by Adam Kuban at the Serious Eats blog that comments on an article [...]



The New Digg Effect – What This Means For Social Media

May 2nd, 2007 at 9:57 am » Comments (4)

After watching the story unfold about the blog post that appeared on Digg that was dugg over 15,000 times and appeared on page one of Digg.  The Digg Effect as it has become known is a phrase given when this phenomena occurs.  Many times if a story becomes popular enough it will appear on page [...]



My Epilogue and Editorial of the Kathy Sierra Saga

April 9th, 2007 at 10:58 am » Comments (3)

After looking back on the time that I first was posted, my own initial reactions, the people I have spoken to and the people I have read has given me an overall perspective on this debacle. I call it a debacle because it is a classic example of the power of blogs, the power of [...]



The Sierra Saga Part 3: Who Are The Real Culprits in The Kathy Sierra Saga

April 6th, 2007 at 11:36 am » Comments (5)

I have been trying to determine how to continue talking about the Kathy Sierra incident without whipping a dead horse and without adding to an already overzealous echo chamber, or to provide fodder for the angry mob.  I have seen many talk about this issue, and I have seen some very good ideas and opinions [...]



Joint Statement by Sierra/Locke and Scoble Returns

April 2nd, 2007 at 9:14 am » Comments (1)

I wanted to let everyone know that I am still researching and doing some reading on the issues and events of last week involving Kathy Sierra and the misogynistic blog posts and the threats via email.  I was contacted by Chris Locke, and we exchanged some emails, and I will be speaking to him further [...]



The Sierra Saga Part 2: Big Bad Bob and the Lull Before the Kathy Sierra Blog Storm

March 29th, 2007 at 2:41 pm » Comments (10)

Before I continue with my address of my following of the Kathy Sierra incident, I wanted to alert everyone to the fact that Kathy has closed comments on her post and has provided an update of her current state.  I had an internal debate as to whether, given her comment and reasoning behind closing comments [...]