Monthly Archives: February 2008

* Blogged.com — 1994 Called, And They Want Their Blog Directory Back

What with Blogged.com’s coverage in the past day or so, as Duncan remarked, its amazing what a little PR can do for you.  Any one else amazed yet?  For the love of pete its a Blog *DIRECTORY* — of which there are literally a dime a dozen if you so wish to Google it. More [...]

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* Low Engagement, Flattening Traffic, Gets Rewarded At Digg-Clone, Mixx

Would you be surprised if a Digg clone got millions of dollars to clone … well, Digg? I know I would. Fine, there are some finer features that distinguish it from the king of the social news mountain, but surely anyone with a modicum of common sense can see that no other new [...]

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Summing Up Twitter In One (Long) Sentence

Just read Mr. Rheingold’s thoughts on Twitter (he’s the chap behind Smart Mobs), and I think I can sum it up even more succinctly than he can (granted, his answer was off the cuff when asked by a student), i.e. the answer to “why are you hooked on Twitter?”
My answer? <drum roll please>
Its because I [...]

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Twitter Is Good For Meeting People, Part I

Twitter is good for a lot of reasons, and I find that I’m hanging out more and more on the service.  I’m not going to rehash what’s been said about it, except that its an incredible way of meeting new like-minded (or not) people — like bloggers.
I’ve discovered there is an entire universe of other [...]

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Why I Love Blogging, Part #242: Hearing It From The Horse’s Mouth

You may have heard about one Texas Senator, named Kirk Watson, an how he spectacularly flubbed on national television, when, as a Barack Obama supporter, was grilled by Chris Matthews (on CNBC) about Obama’s record — and came up blank.
Thanks to things like blogs, Mr. Watson gets to set the record straight on his own [...]

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RIP Netscape 1994-2008 (… The Browser, That Is)

The half-dozen or so users of the Netscape browser will be sad to hear that AOL is finally ending the historic browser’s run as of its latest release, which is 9.0.0.6, and was released February 20th.
With the latest version being upgraded, Netscape will alert users that they can migrate to Flock or Firefox thereafter, according [...]

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Did Sony Pay Off Toshiba To Scuttle HD-DVD Format? (Does It Matter?)

So with news that Japan is shelving the HD-DVD format from stores entirely, an interesting bit of news in the post portem of the high def wars, around the question — did Sony pay off Toshiba to end the war?  Well, CmdrTaco is posing that question over at Slashdot, anyway, thanks to a small piece [...]

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