Category Archives: Asides

Better Question: Would a Social Media Revolt “Matter” If Nothing Was Remedied?

Ben Parr asks “Why Social Media Revolts Take Place”, and goes through the usual places (crib notes: they do something that seriously cheeses its users, obviously visible in hindsight).  I think the better question is “what would have happened if said sites didn’t cave to their users?”  Hulu, Facebook, Twitter (and, say Digg) all generate [...]

Twitter As Real Time Search? Very Awesome.

Last morsel of a half baked thought: I know you know, but I wanted to write this down any way.  Twitter as a search for real time events is absolutely unparalleled. For events that are happening right now — as in the past few minutes, hours or even days, there’s nothing that touches it.  You [...]

Joost on the iPhone: Luxuriate in its Deliciousness

Not much else to say, other than it is slick and delicious, and unfortuantely only available using Wi-Fi.  I’ll be honest.  I haven’t checked out Joost in months (years?), and they’ve boosted their line up considerably.  Full length movies?  Check.  Anime?  Check.  Music Videos?  Check.  Downsides?  Totally unconfirmed reports (i.e. me) suggest that it drains [...]

Three Things I Love About Wordpress 2.6

If you’re a user of Wordpress, you should probably always upgrade when a new version comes out for security reasons.  However, with the new release of Wordpress 2.6, there are three features that really stand out for me — in addition to the security enhanced goodness and all the other new stuff, that is — [...]

Who Almost Has As Many RSS Subscribers As TechCrunch?

I guess its debatable about whether the number of RSS subscribers is a useful metric.  Now that we’ve all acknowledged that it *might* be debatable, here’s a tiny bit of techblogger mind candy for you to enjoy — know which tech-related blog that almost has the same number of subscribers as TechCrunch?  I should add [...]

Running Adsense? Do You Have A Privacy Policy? (You Need One Now)

As per Jensense, the place for all things Adsense, if you’re running Adsense, you may have noticed that updated Terms of Service they made you sign over the past few weeks.  Buried in all that dense text was something about having a mandatory privacy policy — something I admittedly glossed over.  Jensense has a sample [...]

* Will Diggers Leave If Digg Is Acquired By Microsoft?

… and what about Google?  I think there’s one intangible that not enough people are yammering about with respect to new rumours that Digg maybe bought out — and that is, what happens to the community?  These are either geeks are geek wannabe’s that make up the Community at large (large “c”), irrespective of how [...]