Skype’s Outage is Overdone

August 20, 2007

There is far, far too much being written about the Skype outage. Enough already.

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Blogging Vacation

August 3, 2007

I’ll be taking some time away from the blog for the rest of the summer, so blogging will be exceptionally light until further notice.

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Are Lawyers Rats?

August 2, 2007

An active debate considers the question.

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The Single Funniest Thing I’ve Ever Heard Peter MacKay Say

August 2, 2007

Full credit to Peter for nailing the ridiculousness of Russian grasping for the North Pole in this comment: “This isn’t the 15th century. You can’t go around the world and just plant flags and say ‘We’re claiming this territory’”. All of which reminds me, now that I think of it, of Eddie Izzard’s “cunning use […]

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Free the WSJ?

August 1, 2007

Much talk today on whether Murdoch ought to make the WSJ free, with a side conversation on whether WSJ.com ought to be free (My friend Mathew sums them up here). In some ways, the conversation about WSJ.com is an echo of the tear-down-the-paywall conversation about NYT Select from a few weeks ago. Gist of that […]

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Credit Card Numbers on Receipts

August 1, 2007

Ever wonder why some receipts show all of the digits of your credit card number? Ellen Roseman explains.

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Much More mesh Videos

July 31, 2007

With many, many thanks to Mark McKay and the folks at mDialogue for their hard work, here are a few more videos from mesh07, including the rest of the keynotes, and the 15 Minutes of Fame Winners: Keynotes The Web and Society (Rob Hyndman with Austin Hill and Tom Williams) The Web and Media (Mathew […]

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British News Sites Get a Third of Their Traffic from the US

July 28, 2007

PaidContent has an interesting (if you’re a Canadian content provider) bit on the U.K. experience: “Some 36 percent of traffic to U.K. news sites comes from the U.S.”. The story would have been improved with a discussion of how interested their advertisers are in that traffic and what strategies they’re using to maximize revenue earned […]

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Dancing Towards Armageddon

July 28, 2007

A few weeks ago I read a fascinating article in the NYT about artists who are using social media tools, like Myspace, to market their music and their performances, and how this is changing the face of music. Darned if I can find it now. What struck me in particular was how much time it […]

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Is Social Media Changing the Way We Think About Celebrity?

July 27, 2007

Some months ago I wrote about the idea of digital narcissism, and my opinion that the lure of social media wasn’t the satisfaction of a narcissistic urge, as some were saying, so much as it was a response to a need to connect to People Like Us. The digital narcissism angle, as superficially appealing as […]

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“It’s just noise”

July 20, 2007

I really am inclined to agree with Joel’s comments about comments. Cool WP plug-in idea: a button that would allow the reader to hide any comment posted by someone with an unverified email addy. Update: Calacanis seems to – er – feel the same.

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Turmoil Ahead of Harry Potter Release

July 20, 2007

My goodness there’s been a lot of noise ahead of the release of the The Deathly Hallows. Howard examines the details of Harry Potter and the Exaggerating Canadian Publisher, and Boing Boing has the details on the hilarious case of the BitTorrented book whose photographer forgot to remove the EXIF data – which includes camera […]

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