Monthly Archives: March 2007

Link Train 3.31.2007

Got tied up working on TwitBox again today so everything has been a little on the light side. Not to mention but April Fool’s is knocking early so rather than wade through what is real and what isn’t here’s your links for today.
TechCrunch Has Acquired FuckedCompany.com - TechCrunch (premiere April Fools post)
bob the cab drive - [...]

Link Train 3.30.2007

Today rates as a rotten day. Reason #1 - 400gig HD head south on me. Reason #2 - my office chair is starting to come apart. Oh well the train must get down the tracks so here’s today’s links for you.
The Browser Condom: Opinion Split - Vitalsecurity.org
How Copywriting Skills Can Improve Your Love Life - copyblogger
Web [...]

Stop Cyberbullying - Good Luck With That

Since the latest round of internet chest pounding and vile verbal attacks against blogger Kathy Sierra there has been an attempt to stop what is being billed as cyberbullying. The latest attempt is being led by Andy Carvin via his blog and on Twitter.
Now you’ll notice my use of “latest” in the above and [...]

Link Train 3.29.2007

I kinda got caught up in writing a Twitter client today which is why my posting is a little on the late side. That said here’s some links for you to travel down…
OpenOffice 2.2 patches up vulnerabilities - Download Squad
Musicians Demand the Internet Stay Neutral - slashdot
Twitter: Facts and all available tools  - HongKiat.com
Fortune [...]

Blogging and the Art of Conversation

Being one of the fairly new kids on the blogging block; given that Dave Winer is coming up on 10 years and I’m still a month or so off from my first one, I tend to read many of the posts written about blogging. I even read the ones from sites that in my [...]

Link Train - 3.28.2007

a number of items for your late night perusing
On Losing Data and a Family Backup Strategy - Scott Hanselman
Microsoft and Google join OpenAjaxAlliance - Vecosys
How tough is it to install Linux, really? - Download Squad
Security Firms Discover New Risk: People Say Stuff On Blogs And Social Network Sites! - Techdirt

Canada: Losing it’s place in technology

I came across this article posted on the CBC.ca site earlier today but flagged it for dealing with later when I wasn’t so pissed.
As it turns out Canada has slipped to eleventh place on the World Economic Forum’s networked readiness index. This index is used to gauge a country’s ability to harness information technologies [...]

The web and social consciousness

We all like to think that we have a social consciousness - a sense of social responsibility.
Business sites that try and utilize marketing departments to get this warm and fuzzy across to customers are typically suspect at best. Dell is a good example of this so-called social/eco consciousness with their Plant a Tree [...]