With the meteoric rise of Twitter and the recent popularization of FriendFeed just to mention the two most popular social media services the sharing of information and ideas spreads like never before. Granted it is only within the limited world of the tech blogosphere but with everyday that goes by these services creep towards [...]

I’ve been having a line from a post today by Dave Winer running through my head. Even though the post in general didn’t interest me this last line did - "we need to reform how ideas and information flows in our country". Somehow that strikes me as being important but I just can’t seem to [...]

I really look forward to Sunday evening when the Elite Tech News team gets together for our weekly podcast. This week was no different and as usual it was a great show; albeit with a lot more humor than usual, where we talked about everything from Twitter to Mesh to border guards being able to [...]

Talk about a quiet weekend in the blogosphere. I imagine Gabe is looking over Techmeme hoping for a bitchmeme to develop but it looks like the second weekend in a row where no-one is in an overly bitchy mood. Must have something to so with the warm weather. In the meantime here’s a few things [...]

Lately there has been a move by some of the perceived leaders in the tech blogosphere to set the terms and conditions for you - or PR firms - to approach them. Whether it be an individual or a company with a story or idea pitch they want you to now approach them using [...]

For the past week there has been an on-going conversation happening about how we use the many services that are available to us. Whether it be Twitter, our blogs, FriendFeed or any number of services we have a lot of options to get our message out. Throughout all this I have maintained that these [...]

I just ran across a fun little util at TheTechTurf called BootSkin from Stardock, makers of such creations as WindowsBlinds, which was the subject of several posts and the prize in a contest here at Winextra. Made a couple years ago, there is no Vista support, though StarDock still claims one is in the works. [...]

There has been a rather interesting discussion going on today on FriendFeed as a result of a post by Jason over at webomatica. In his post Jason primarily talks about getting some control back over the flood of information that comes his way via his subscribed RSS feeds, Twitter and FriendFeed.
For Jason this means [...]