Monthly Archives: November 2007

What’s Your Backup Strategy? (Or, Putting A Price On Memories)

So a few days ago my wife and I learned an expensive lesson about how the fragility of external hard drives and the curiosity of a 14 month year old just *do* _NOT_ mix.
When my son was born, I decided that I was going to keep all of my photos off on an external hard [...]

The Truth About Viral And Social Marketing? Its All About The Sock Puppets.

Over at TechCrunch a guest poster, Dan Acker Greenburg, has revealed how the company he works for creates viral videos on YouTube. Go and read the details, but it basically boils down to marketing tricks, and less to do with the content itself.
Wait — that doesn’t do it justice.
It basically boils down to manipulating [...]

The Kindle Is Fugly, Awkward, And … Biased Against Lefties?

I haven’t held one yet, but if Robert Scoble could act as my proxy, then I’d have to say that Amazon’s Kindle is one fugly awkward looking piece of … jeez, well, “technology”.  I mean, its flashing screens between pages look like something you’d see in an LCD screen back in the 1980’s — you [...]

Hallelujah! Unlimited Data Plans Come To Canada, Courtesy of Bell Canada

I have ranted on a few occasions about how Canadians get reamed with respect to wireless data plans, and their cost thereof (really high), particularly with *personal* inequity I feel about not having any unlimited data plans. This made sense in a sick sort of way; after all, how could anyone charge $15 for [...]

I Will Push Mat Ingram’s Post On Techmeme

This is Mat Ingram’s post over here, where he talks a little bit about how Techmeme diversifying to non-blogs is a good thing — and that the good ol’ blogosphere in the good ol’ days, sounds a little bit like a good ol’ boys club.
Well, that’s how I’m reading it, anyway. ;)
He’s intending for the [...]

Has Techmeme Stopped You From Reading RSS Feeds?

Interesting question posited by Fred Wilson on Techmeme as a curator of feeds.  That is, that it does such a good job at curating memes that he hasn’t read many (if any) news / blog feeds these days.  The problem, as he sees it, is that it can be “gamed” as any system can, which [...]

Hmmm … Either No One Likes The Chumby, Or …

Well, the contest is off due to a lack of interest — either because no one really likes the Chumby (come on, guys!), or perhaps because you can just pick one up off the shelf (via your browser, of course) for $179.
(Well, either *THAT*, or no one is interested in the prize)