I swear, Apple Legal does its level best every single day to do whatever it can in every way to do the maximum possible damage to Apple Computers Inc.
How can ostensibly smart people - I mean, they passed the bar, right - be so absolutely, abysmally, galactically stupid?
Now they want to take over “podcasting.” Find […]

Since Google lost the crazy newspaper lawsuit brought by Belgian papers that didn’t want free links and free traffic being sent their way by Google News, the Belgian courts have decreed that it has to put the text of the ruling on its Belgian site.
It’s a google desecration. As TechDirt says, so much for Google’s […]

Today, Dave Winer said that he made $2.3 million via his blog, Scripting News. How on earth did he do that?
I would really like to know, and I bet thousands of other bloggers would as well.
But - little hint up front - it’s a secret. A very intriguing secret, and a secret with […]

Technorati has now been down, on and off, for the past two days. Unbelievable.
I remember begging Google to buy Technorati almost a year ago because of ongoing technical issues … and this has not changed.
The service Technorati promises is so great - its actual delivery is so incredibly buggy.
What do they have to do to […]

Plugins take a basic blog - even a wonderful Wordpress blog - to the next level of interactivity and functionality.
Since I’m just in the process of updating my blog theme, I had to consider which plugins I was going to continue/stop/start using.
Here are the 5 Wordpress plugins I can’t do without:

Akismet
Akismet is an extremely efficient […]

I don’t know if I’m like the cobbler’s kid, who never gets new shoes, or like the designer’s house which is never the same for two months in a row.
I’m tired of this current theme:

too few words fit on a page
content starts too low … half-way down a page on a typical screen
it’s not cool/edgy/sexy/web […]

Who doesn’t want free stuff?
The free stuff for bloggers marketing brigade is hitting bizhack. Over the next week or so, I’m going to be getting Build the Life You Want and Still Have Time to Enjoy It by Jim Claitor and Colleen Contreras as well as The Blog Ahead: How Citizen-Generated Media is Tilting the […]

Gmail’s down … isn’t Google supposed to be as reliable as a utility?

I guess it is as reliable as utilities - California utilities. In the summer.
Tags: gmail, google, error, utility, network computing, john koetsier

OK, brace yourself. This is a really easy one …
The time NOT to market your product via bloggers is when you HAVE A LOUSY PRODUCT.
If you have a lousy product, whatever you do, don’t send it to bloggers. Hopefully, they won’t see it, won’t realize it’s a lousy product, and won’t post on it. There […]

Marshall Kirkpatrick on TechCrunch is reporting an Engadget story that Apple and Google may be snuggling up with a movie. (Apple, of course, had just pre-announced it’s iTV streaming-media-from-the-web-to-your-TV product.)
OK, I think I just found a reason to buy one.
Add to this all the other video aggregators and purveyors - or at least a significant […]