Category Archives: Opinion

Patent Office 2.0 Is Sheer Idiocy (Or, When Crowdsourcing Is Clearly Inappropriate)

The Washington Post reports that the US Patent Offices are going ‘2.0′ — and using the wisdom of crowds to help it go through the mountains of applications for patents that are applied every year.  Yes, they are actually going to allow, through the internet, a community of individuals to comment and ‘vote’ on trademark [...]

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Print Publishing’s Death Knell?

Some pretty startling numbers over here about print publishing’s declining revenues. Honest and ruthless sentiments courtesy of Colin Crawford of IDG publishing:
In the US, our online revenue now accounts for over 35% of our total US publishing revenues. Next year, for many brands online revenues will be greater than print revenues, if fact they [...]

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Widgets: Promoting Blogging Mediocrity Everywhere.

Bloggers ought not to be distracted by widgets.

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How the iPhone Could Kick, Spit, and Beat On You — And It Still Wouldn’t Matter

The iPhone will succeed in spite of its short comings.

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Here’s An Exclusive: Its All About The Content, Stupid.

Its really all about the Content.

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What Sifry Isn’t Telling Us About A-Listers and Boosting Your Ranking

There’s more to blogging than blog frequency.

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UPDATE: WOMMA “Slow as Molasses” In “Punishing” “Edel-Mart”

WOMMA’s response to one of its founding members making a mockery of its principles? The equivalent of 3 hail marys.

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