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The Hypocrisy of Doing Tech Product Reviews

July 18, 2008 – 6:41 pm

If there is one thing that will start off a firestorm in the tech blogosphere faster than you can say oh shit is the mention of a tech blogger doing a product review of just about anything. While most of the time if one provides the usual caveat that the company provided the review [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging, Hype |

The Sorry State of Linking & Attribution

July 16, 2008 – 9:47 pm

If you ask any blogger what they think the very blood of what keeps the blogosphere alive is and the large majority of them would probably answer – links. Whether it be links to outside posts or to point to where quotes have originated from links have been the very basis by which we [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging |

Talk About Irony

July 15, 2008 – 6:38 pm

Just to save my American readers any undo need for reading this I am writing about the total stupidity of a situation happening within the Canadian telecom and internet service providers – which for most cases are one and the same – so you may not find it overly interesting – unless of course [...]

By Steven Hodson |

Sorry Rob But Rankings Are Here To Stay

July 14, 2008 – 8:46 pm

It never fails.
Really it doesn’t. Whenever a new Web 2.0 or social media service starts getting a lot of attention someone somewhere will figure out how to create a ranking scale for that service. The latest incident to get everyone’s pundit shorts in a knot is the new Frienderati addition to Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging, Social Media |

The Old Dull Thing Is The New Shiny Thing (or deconstructing the Calacanis email newsletter)

July 13, 2008 – 4:48 pm

Prior to Web 2.0 and the rapid proliferation of things like blogs, social media and social networks the most common way to communicate with people was by using newsletters. While one could manually update static web pages things like newsletters were easily created and could be sent en mass to the people who had signed [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging, Hype, Social Media |

Can We Find A Balance With Technology & Us

July 12, 2008 – 10:31 pm

Yesterday I wrote a post over at Mashable called Is the Internet Destroying Real World Interactions? In the post I wondered about the impact that technology is taking on our lives and if we weren’t in the end missing out by being more concentrated on technological solutions rather than being able to appreciate the [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Social Media |

Could You Be An Impulse Buyer?

July 12, 2008 – 12:38 am

With more and more software; whether it is games or the more standard desktop applications, being made available via the web way to distribute them easily and also for buyers to pay for easily is becoming more and more important. One of the most well known of these digital distribution systems is Valve’s Steam [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Software |

And They Call Bloggers Confused

July 11, 2008 – 7:53 pm

When I clicked on the Techmeme folder in FeedDemon this is what was displayed

Now when I go to the CNN site and read the article [nw] nowhere does it mention the sanctions that the New York Times talks about
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin Friday said he would not seek to fine cable giant [...]

By Steven Hodson | Also posted in Blogging |