Category Archives: Asides

* 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 [...]

* 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 [...]

$100 HD-DVD Players Mean One *Other* Thing …

Shattering through the $100 barrier means a lot of things to the consumer technology, as there is at least one HD-DVD which is now being offered at Best Buy for this price.  Quality issues aside and competition issues with blu-ray aside, greater penetration into the high definition loving public will *also* mean greater penetration into [...]

TechCrunch Agrees: Blogrunner Teh Rocks

Looks like I’m not the only one who thinks Blogrunner is Teh Rocks, as Erick Schonfield gives the erstwhile Techmeme-competitor the general thumbs up. Blogrunner may be getting a look over from many, many, many other new fans, however, as it is now plugged directly into the New York Times Tech section — which [...]

* Personal Blogger Shout Out: David Peralty Joins Splashpress Team

I’ve meet a few local bloggers over the past year, and one of them was David Peralty, *formerly* of Bloggy Network.  We had a chance to chat a bit at Mesh this past May, and I found him to be — in the words of some southern friends, a real straight shooter, and a professional [...]

* Wishing The Scobles All The Best …

A belated congratulations to Robert and Miriam Scoble on the birth of their new baby.  Robert and I haven’t always seen eye-to-eye, but as a relatively new dad (my boy is almost one — hard to believe), I’ll raise my glass to all the sleepless nights ahead of him. ;)

* Propeller An Apt Name — Its Time To Sink Or Swim, Lads

Yes, its a few days late, but a few last thoughts about Netscape is moving its ’social’ component to Propeller.com, namely that I “dig” the new name (sorry, I couldn’t help myself), I think its a good idea that its getting its own domain name, and now, its time for it to actually sink or [...]