I have maintained a blog at Posterous for a couple of years. I love the simplicity of the platform, and the ease of autoposting to over fifty other sharing platforms. I didn’t like the lack of flexibility of template design, but the functional simplicity more than made up for it. [...]
Apple really needs to do something about this.
Foxconn Chair Calls Employees Animals Multiple suicides and a threat of mass suicide due to working conditions? I wonder what the true cost difference would be to make Apple products in the United States or Mexico. UPDATE: After posting this, I had a long Facebook conversation about this issue with [...]
Nice summary of the big media companies outdated veiw of their customers
In a short post titled The media industry would rather litigate than innovate, Scott McLeod pulled a great quote from an article you need to read about the industry’s wrongheaded march to S.O.P.A.
MSNBC’s Breaking News Facebook page really needs a copy editor.
The following screen grabs are from MSNBC’s Breaking News Facebook page. Below are two consecutive updates, roughly an hour apart. In the update above, Pfc should be P.F.C. or PFC. It stands for Private First Class, and it is an official rank. They also repeated the word “should.” In this [...]
Should Facebook Rethink Timeline?
A nice summary about why maybe the wall is better than timeline. by @corywatilo
@ChicagoCabbie
Old services meet new media: a tweeting cabbie’s growing business I love seeing people find ways to bring new technology and techniques into old industries. In the end though, it all comes down to serving your customers in the best way you can find. This guy is working it.
How much is enough?
I’ve been thinking about minimalism a lot lately. Not in the sense of getting rid of all of my stuff, but more in the sense of “how much is enough? Leo Babauta is a true minimalist, in life philosophy and when it comes to physical possessions. Dave is a radical [...]
Why I didnt follow you on twitter
I published a post yesterday explaining how I decide to accept a friend requests on Facebook. Today let’s talk about twitter. I follow a lot of people, and I don’t intend to changing that, but I am cutting those who fill my stream with useless noise. The following are the basic [...]
Facebook: To friend or not to friend
When I first joined Facebook, I accepted friend requests from just about anyone. I also liked many many fan pages, both of celebrities and companies. My news feed is now insanely hard to follow. Over the holidays, I will be “unfriending” many people and authors, and “unliking” almost all businesses, [...]
Podcast Studio Set Up Complete
Over the past year or so, I’ve been slowly putting together a setup to record podcasts. It is complete! Well, it’s not complete but it now has everything I need to record quality audio, and have a cohost.