Well, now you can answer that for yourselves, thanks to some creative piping at Yahoo Pipes. There’s a mashup that alleges to remove some of the front page results of the Digging Elite (or Top Diggers, or Top X number of Diggers) over here; its been in response to the drama that has surrounded the [...]
Interesting thoughts about the TechCrunch Effect today. Two things to say about it:
1. Its almost always unpredictable in its timing: my understanding is that Mike doesn’t email you the heads up as to when its happening, so you can’t necessarily prep your site for the giant influx of traffic from a load-handling point of view [...]
Over at Scobleizer, I was reading a comment thread and a very interesting comment came up. It was in the context of Robert Scoble giving a few pearls of wisdom about “what to do if you get fired in this kind of climate” (Cole’s Notes Version: Don’t slack off, work real hard at getting noticed, [...]
In the long running, agonizing death spiral that that is the CD Business, its refreshing to see new models for distribution that Just Work (and that don’t involve iTunes). One example is the example of Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Band, two games for next generation consoles that allow players to play instruments along with [...]
Well it looks like Nokia may be partnering with Facebook in a fairly major way to allow placement of Facebook right onto the main menus of Nokia screens. Pretty important stuff in terms of utility and branding.
Not just in terms of the kind of reach Nokia has in Europe (and beyond), but I think its [...]
Maybe.
There’s an oldish (interesting what passes for “old” in blogging time) study that was released two weeks ago, which surveyed a whole bunch of American journalists over their attitudes on blogs, and more importantly, how they interact with them.
Have you ever wondered if mainstream journalists are reading blogs? Ever wonder if they’re appropriating the fresh, [...]
I’m embarassed to say that I actually knew this tip a while ago, but never got around to implementing it until I read about it *again* today. Embarassed because this blog has been hacked a few times, and in a fairly devious fashion as well, sometimes perhaps because of an old Wordpress installation — or, [...]
