I was very pleased to see this morning an update notice for version 3.4 of MarsEdit, my favorite tool for writing blog posts on my Mac: This 3.4 release is stated to be focused around improvements to the media management…
Nov 29
WordPress.com Rolls out WordAds, New Competitor to Google AdSense
Want to make money from your blog hosted on WordPress.com? In a fascinating move today the folks at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, rolled out WordAds, directly competing with Google’s advertising offerings. As they state: Over the years one of…
Nov 28
SOPA Updates: Matt Cutts Summary, European Parliament Resolution, Sandia Labs, BSA
In the ongoing debate around the controversial "Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)" bill in the US Congress (that I have covered previously here and here), there are four updates worth reading: First, Matt Cutts provided a comprehensive SOPA update last…
Nov 28
Om Malik’s Reflections (and Stats) on 10 Years of Blogging
Over the weekend Om Malik published a great piece that’s worth reading if you are a writer / blogger: My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too It’s a wonderful story of how Om first got into…
Nov 28
Skype 5.x Beta For Mac OS X Includes Hidden "Push To Talk" Feature
It turns out that the Skype 5.x Beta releases for Mac OS X have a hidden feature. In my last Skype-related post about the simultaneous release of 5.7 Beta for Windows and 5.4 Beta for Mac OS X, I mentioned…
Nov 23
Want a Great Weekend Project? Consider Applying for an Internet Society Job
The Internet Society is hiring! We’ve got about 10 open positions right now… 17 Nov 2011 Technical Outreach for Identity and Privacy 14 Nov 2011 Regional Bureau Director, North America 09 Nov 2011 Director, Development Strategy 04 Nov 2011 Membership…
Nov 23
Oops… Posted to the Wrong Site… See the Correct Link here
Oops… this post about Google Wave is really over at Disruptive Conversations:
http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2011/11/and-so-google-finally-announces-the-formal-death-of-google-wave-in-2012.html
(Keeping this post up because it already w…
Nov 23
And So Google Finally Announces the Formal Death of Google Wave in 2012…
And so at last comes the end of one of Google’s most intriguing and useful collaboration platforms… Google Wave. Amidst the long list of services Google is killing off as part of its latest round of "spring cleaning" was this…
Nov 22
3 Whitepapers You Need To Read To Understand How SOPA Could Damage DNS And Decrease Security
How exactly will the proposed "Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA)" impact the DNS infrastructure of the Internet? What are the technical and engineering problems caused by the proposed bill? How will the bill actually DECREASE our national cybersecurity? I covered…
Nov 22
How The NFL Loses With Its Copyright Takedown Notices On Video Clips
I’m not a regular football fan. Sure, I enjoy watching a game if it’s on somewhere and I might watch the playoffs or Super Bowl… but watching football is not part of my daily/weekly routine. Still, when I saw an…
