If you’re link spamming, you suck. If you know someone who is link spamming, they suck — and you should tell them so. If you don’t know why you suck, here’s a story about the human impact of what you do. About a year ago, my wife Lorna Harris launched a social news site for [...]
There are times after a long day that I simply grow weary of the internet and what it reflects of the greater world — that it seems to be full of complete idiots. Today is one of those days. I’ll vent, get it off my chest, and perhaps some imbecile out there will learn from [...]
Well there’s irony. In a Twitter discussion over fair use, quoting and giving proper credit, an example I first tweeted about how much the AP charges goes full circle back to me, without me getting credit. Man, who can I blame someone for stealing my original journalism? A look at what happened, pulling together various [...]
Creative Commons is supposed to be this great way for people to license out their works to others. But it’s annoyed me for ages how lame it is in practice, when it comes to Flickr. Let’s say I want a picture of a car to use on my commercial blog. Using the Flickr Advanced Search [...]
After getting yet another Nigerian scam email that made it through the filters, I joked about wanting to write a novel about someone who really did have access to a fortune but couldn’t get anyone to believe them. Then I got pointed to this xkcd comic, which has a joke about the poor company out [...]
I’ve been bemused watching Facebook over the past few months try to get some of the Twitter mojo by focusing more on “status updates.” I tend to be with John Battelle that “Twitter is a pencil.” IE — Twitter works because it does one thing well. Facebook is complicated — it’s Photoshop, as John put [...]
A few weeks ago, my computer crashed. Suddenly, I was fully living in the cloud, depending on Gmail for my email, Google Calendar for my calendar, until I could get Outlook up and running again. And I realized that despite Google wanting the browser to be the interface to everything, software applications still have a [...]
My good friend Greg Hernandez, a veteran Hollywood reporter, was laid off from his job at the Daily News last Monday. In the week since, it’s a been an all-hands-on-deck rush to get him established on his new blog, now up at Greg In Hollywood. Below, a look at how it all came together, with [...]
Time Magazine’s out with a Top 25 Blogs list, I learned tonight on Techmeme. Curious, I went to look for it. As expected, finding an actual list of all the blogs was impossible. OK, not impossible — eventually @thedelicious twittered me the location. Thank goodness, because Time certainly didn’t make it obvious. I know, I [...]
I’ve been without business cards for about seven months now, and I’m finally gotten around to getting new ones printed. In doing so, I realized I wanted my Twitter address on my card. Last time I had some printed, at the end of 2005, I don’t even think I had a Twitter account! But now, [...]