A couple of days ago the big firestorm in the blogosphere was the in comment death threats being experienced by Kathy Sierra; which I wrote about here. Today via Stowe Boyd and Doc Searls comes the flipside of the mess. It is from Alan Herrel to Doc Searls and it relates what happened from [...]

Short stuff for today …
The Onion takes to Web video via Globe & Mail
Desktop Apps, reborn as hybrids via Om Malik
Web Services Coming To Twitter via TechCrunch
Add Live Ratings To Your Blog Posts In 30 Seconds via Jim Kukral

I have long held; like a lot of other much smarter folks than me, that Microsoft needs to make some radical and deep changes to the company as a whole. I have written about this in the past (here, here and here) and read much of what is written about the company. I have [...]

I just had to laugh when I read over at Duncan Riley’s blog about this apparent pulling the wool over the eyes of TechCrunch and LifeHacker by a site call Popuri. It turns out that both these news sites got taken in by a guy with a script you can by for $20.00 that [...]

I just spotted a link posted by Michael Arrington on Twitter and when I clicked on it a part of the innocence of the blogosphere died for me. It turns out that Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users has been fending off death threats. Apparently these threats are real enough that the police have [...]

I have been wanting to write for some time about what I think is an incredibly important problem facing us; but it never seems to get talked about or just gets glossed over as statistics. We are facing a true and ever widening technological divide between the tech have’s and the tech have-not’s. It is [...]

There’s been a big discussion this past week concerning the demise of newspapers. Everyone from Dave Winer, Robert Scoble and Scott Karp to those in the newsprint trenches like Mathew Ingram has chimed in on the conversation.
In his usual manner Robert proclaimed that newspapers are dead which in turned sparked a further ranging debate [...]

I am sure we all have our favorite blogs. You know - the one’s you look forward to seeing if there is anything new from when you open up that feedreader. Well I’m no different so I figured I would share my favorites just case you don’t know of them and might find them of [...]