From the archive

March 2008

57 posts

A guide to constructive commenting

Most of the readers here have been around the Internet and its pre-cursors for a while and are familiar with the groups that almost all commentors fall into. There are loosely 3 groups in increasing order of prevelance: those that want to add something to the conversation (constructors), those that have a strong contrary opinion (objectors) and those that just

The DeCentralized Me!

Over the past 4–5 years in writing this blog I have always been concerned about services that cause consumers of this content to get connected through a third party service.

RawVoice Podcast Publisher Announcement

My team at RawVoice is formulating a major announcement about what we are introducing with our multi-layer podcast publishing system that we are going to introduce next week.

Most Mac user live in Fantasy Land

Most Mac users today live in a fantasy land. They are of the false belief that their machines are not prone to being hacked. The sad thing is the number of software tools available to protect Mac users from real attacks on their machines out their is severely lacking.

#360 1:11:37

GNC-2008-03-27

Portsmouth Meet up is on please RSVP see bottom of show notes. Recorded the show live again tonight while on Ustream, had a nice crowd, lots of pressure to get it right ha.. Lots of tech today thats for sure. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on

Bloggers as journalists

I posted a few days ago about old media trying to change to look more like new media, and how this opened a gap for new media to take over the role of true journalism. A post in Gizmodo about the management disagreements within Motorola show that at least in some areas this metamorphosis is quite advanced. The article shows

GNC / Podcaster Meetup in Portsmouth New Hampshire

Here are the details for the Ohana / Podcaster meetup that will be happening Friday March 28th we will meet at the Hilton Garden Inn for drinks between 6:00 and 7:00 for drinks and socializing.

Windows Live connects to social networks

Microsoft has announced the ability to use your friends and networks in some social networks to invite them to Live, in particular to instant messenger. I like this in theory, but in practice I'm not sure how this helps the majority of people. The initial implementation (which is only for Facebook) is a bulk invite option that downloads your friends

#359 1:03:04

GNC-2008-03-24

First time in a long time I had a live audience at the same time I recorded the show. Will do a live show again on Thursday, hope you will join me, watch announcement for it here and on Twitter. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on

Firefox Version 3 Beta a home run!

First impressions, much faster, smaller memory foot print, websites look much crisper. Overall A+ and as in comparison to IE there is simply no comparison.

Apple is trying to sneak Safari on Windows!

Why is Apple shoving Safari down our throat. If I had wanted to install that worthless browser on my Windows box I would have simply have downloaded it. The last thing I want is a half functional browser cluttering up my hard drive.

#358 1:11:38

GNC-2008-03-21

Show is back to normal time line, Congratulations Jeffery Thomas and Tom Watt you are the two OLPC Laptop Winners. Thanks for all the feedback on the last show!!. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd [Try GoToMeeting free for

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