From the monthly archives:

April 2009

To Beat Twitter In Status Update Wars, How About Facebook Lite?

by on April 28, 2009

in Facebook,Internet,Twitter

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 [...]

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Google Needs To Learn Browser Isn’t Best

by on April 25, 2009

in Email,Internet

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 [...]

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Time For Google To Fund An Online-Only Version Of The Pulitzers?

by on April 20, 2009

in Newspapers

The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today — and sincere congrats to the hard-working journalists who’ve won those highest of prizes. But with no online-only publications winning — in the first year they were eligible to enter — I wonder if it’s time for an online-only version of the Pulitzers to be offered. I was struck [...]

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Spring Cleaning The Blog & More On Thesis For WordPress

by on April 20, 2009

in About Daggle,Blogs & Feeds

It’s been over three years since I launched Daggle, and things have been overdue for an update. So, I’ve finally gotten to that. For those who care, a rundown on changes and some further thoughts on the latest version of the Thesis theme for WordPress. WordPress? Yes, I’ve moved off of Movable Type. Since my [...]

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Google’s Love For Newspapers & How Little They Appreciate It

by on April 6, 2009

in Newspapers

It was a hostile audience. It was June 2007, at a conference center in London, where newspaper and magazine publishers were hearing how a new industry-backed search engine rights standard called ACAP was coming along. The day ended with an “issues” oriented panel. The audience didn’t seem that pleased with me telling them they were [...]

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