Monthly Archives: February 2008

Have We Reached The Pinnacle Of Social News?

So I loves my news aggregators, and I loves my social news sites. You may have also heard of a new breed of such sites, which aggregate shared bookmarks via Google Reader (and more), such as readburner, linkriver, and rssmeme.
Anywhoo, I was about to wax poetic about how useful these new services are, when, [...]

Jeebus Frackin’ … Come, Freakin’ *ON*, Microsoft!

You may have heard that Vista SP1 is coming / has come / will destroy you / devour small animals / capture all of your bases. There’s some more news that installing it will likely render even *MORE* programs unusable.
Well, if you could see me now, my eyes have rolled so far back into [...]

Google News 2.0 … Leveling The Field For New Media “Orphans”?

Not that Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia is anything *remotely* like a New Media Orphan (in fact, one could say he is a new media ‘godfather’, in some respects), but interesting rejoinder *by* Mr. Sanger on Google News, with respect to an article written about Citizendium, his new authority-driven Wikipedia off-shoot.
Upshot of this was that [...]

The Why’s And Wherefore’s Of Taking On TechCrunch

Interesting debate today — for a small period of time — BubbleGeneration’s Umair Haque leveled some interesting assertions at Mikey A et al. over at TechCrunch, and subsequently took the post down … but was then put up again, in response to it getting mirrored over at Crunchnotes.
His own assertions aren’t really that interesting to [...]

37Signals’ Backpack Evolves Into Intranet 2.0?

Update: Interesting stats on how many people upgraded/ converted to their new services; 37Signals reminds us that Web2.0 doesn’t always mean an adsense supported bottom line 
I’m sure you’ll be reading in depth reviews at some point or another by your favourite blogs and super-blog sites on Backpack’s new features — but here’s the skinny. [...]

What “Techno Addiction” Really Means

So read an article on BBC today about a warning call on “Techno Addiction”, and I couldn’t help but be reminded about *another* article I read on Cory Doctorow at BoingBong.net, about his own opinions on the subject (via a newsburp at the time about how some children in Korea were being sent to boot [...]

Newspond: Saccharine, Misbegotten Child Of Digg And Techmeme?

Contrary to what some believe, Newspond, the latest entry into the news aggregator scene, isn’t really teh awesome. Here’s the two second run down: it aggregators news, like Techmeme.  It allows you to comment, like Digg.
Sure, there’s a fancy Ajax-y kind of wrapper around it, and there’s a way to sort out stories that are [...]