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Are your kids on MySpace?

Well tonight my wife came home after visiting the neighbors, and said guess who we found on MySpace. Apparently MYSpace was a topic of discussion, and my wife was quite surprised that my 16 year old daughter who lives with my ex-wife has a "popular" MySpace account. Apparently the mom next door had discovered her own kids account just a

Hard Drive Hell

I was on travel the last 4 days and Murphy struck when I was least expecting it. I was online no longer than a hour at my travel destination when I had a hard-drive go south. What a nightmare, needless to say I am still in recover mode and thanks to a very good computer insurance policy I am online

MySpace why it is a big deal!

I asked my 16 year old daughter why she was not using the Blog that I had designed for her and I got that look that said, dad your to old... Ouch well it turns out that what us geeks like in the way of structure is not the way things are done on MySpace. Freedom to express one self

RSS Monkey Business behind closed doors is bad!

Dave Winer has a new post titled "Why the backchannel is bad for RSS" this essentially goes into why trying to make changes to RSS behind closed doors is bad. There are some major politics in play here and what it boils down to is a power play by some individuals whose motives are not well defined but as my

Robert Scoble hits the nail on the head with RSS Full Text Feeds!

I am going to give you the readers digest version, some bloggers have partial text feeds which requires you to load their website if you want to read the full article. Typically like Robert I don't subscribe to RSS feeds that have Partial text feeds. Robert ask who are using Feed Readers at this point, journalist, bloggers, podcasters, people that

Doug Kaye weighs in on Pay to Play

I really respect Doug Kaye and everything he is doing over at the Conversation Networks, the challenge is immense and the goals are large, but if you really look at the objectives of what the Conversation Network is doing his network is providing a non-replaceable service to technical folks like me, that have to work for a living while all

Live Blog Chat

I have been reading the commentary on 3bubbles which is a company that is going to offer a chat widget for bloggers. The idea is visitors of the site would click the button tied to the 3bubbles application, and be instantly connected to the blogger to chat about his site. Well folks the days of the BBS user sitting in