Monthly Archives: August 2007

Secret To Preventing “Cyber-Attacks”? Its *LOVE*, Man.

Today I learned a valuable thing about computer, networking, and Internet security.  I mean, I don’t know the first things about such things, but it turns out that you *don’t* actually need fancy certifications, experience, or even have something workable to defend your computer intra-networked-webs.
All you need is *LOVE*, man. ;)
Well, that’s what I’m getting [...]

* Wordpress T-Shirts: Cool Color, Cruel Shipping Costs

For those of you who use Wordpress for their blogs (and, with the greatest respect to Anil Dash, I suspect that its most of you), you may have noticed that Wordpress now has shirts for sale internationally.  I like the color red, which is fortunate, because it turns out you can only get these Wordpress [...]

Could You Imagine Living In A Net Cafe?

Apparently there are people in Japan who actually *live* in Net Cafe’s — they are clean, they are cheap, they serve food, *and* you can buy clean underwear (the non-school girl kind) if you so choose it.  Although such places were apparently built to have fun, kill time, and / or allow salarymen to hang [...]

Things I Like: AideRSS

“Things I Like” is a new quickie column to be published on a frequency that will charitably described as irregular, based on, you guessed it, things I like.  You could say it is a kind of “review” type post, if you want.
That being said and out of the way, its funny what you find when [...]

I Expect Robert Scoble’s Sabbatical To End By The End of The Week

It must be hard for a professional blogger like Robert Scoble.  Working fairly flexible hours, getting to write about, shoot video about, and otherwise co-mingle and hob-nob in, a field you love, all the while getting paid for it.  Now, I’m trying not to sound as cranky, cantankerous, jaded and jaundiced, as I probably do, [...]

Scott Karp Launches Journalist-Powered News Aggregator (I Think).

If you’re wondering what Scott Karp, uber-smart new media blogger at publishing2.com, has been up to (well, I have — but that tells you the extent of what my life is like at the moment) is launching a new service this fall called Publish2.com. You can read the 2800 word treatise on what its [...]

Self-Indulgent Posting Alert: I Was Interviewed The Other Day …

Valeria Maltoni interviewed me recently at Conversation Agent about my experiences at the BlogHerald as ‘new media’ editor. If such things strike your fancy, go ahead and check it out. If however, you would like to read a good blog about how connections, branding, public relations and marketing all mix and interelate, just [...]