Long Tail Questions
I posted a while back about the Meaty Middle, and why it was more important than the Long Tail for the application I’m involved with called RMX Direct.
“You” Politics?
New York Times reports that John Edwards will announce his candidacy on Thursday. It reports: “Mr. Edwards, who is arguably the most Web-savvy candidate in the ’08 race to date, is using Thursday’s event to try to gin up his supporters via the Internet.”
Back up your Blog
It was a very scary moment. I was looking at the home page of my blog, and there was nothing but a Wordpress database error of some sort.
What are Our Co-workers Doing on the Net?
8e6 has a report here that should provide all of us in security an amusing insight into what our co-workers are doing on the internet.
Google Reader – The Next Digg?
Steve Rubel and a variety of others are opining that Google Reader could be turned into the next Digg. Oh, I so so so agree with that!
Making Choices for Web Developer Sanity
Nowadays, there’s too much information for a web developer to handle: Web 2.0, AJAX, JavaScript libraries, Ruby on Rails, ASP.Net Atlas/AJAX, CSS, DWR…and the list goes on.
Microsoft Handing Out Ferrari Laptops to Bloggers
Well my good friend Scott Beale got one and Long Zheng is reporting a number of other bloggers have been receiving them as well, but it seems that Microsoft is handing out brand spanking new fast Ferrari laptops loaded with Vista to influential bloggers.
Payola Becomes Blogola, Courtesy of Microsoft
Ethics and public relations in the blogosphere have taken a severe beating in 2006. Phony bloggers. Diggers paid to digg. Bloggers paid to post. It all culminates in the sketchiest move yet as bloggers begin receiving top-of-the-line laptops on their doorsteps, loaded with Windows Vista, courtesy of Microsoft, AMD and Edelman.
Protecting Your Wireless Router
A wireless router is a great idea for networking computers that are not right next to each other.
Spry: Custom Columns
A few days ago I posted a link to a few new Spry demos including one that shows how to build custom columns in Spry.