Pat Phelan over at Cubic Telecom wrote a post about how much Twitter is costing businesses. As someone rightly pointed out in the comments, what’s the cost of any given thing to business anyway?
I think the bigger, more important question is why are we wasting our time–whatever it costs–using a service that clearly doesn’t have […]
I had went into my Wordpress Admin today to write posts as usual, but it was slower than molasses in winter. After some troubleshooting–was thankful 1&1 had strace installed on the box and my web pages are served by a process I could attach it to–I tracked it down to something (C)Feed was doing–a plugin […]
Finally getting out of the holidays and back into the regular swing of things. However, we’ve got two major events coming up in the next two weeks: CES and MacWorld. Not going to either, though I am supposed to be visiting Ottawa in the very near future.
Here’s what I managed to write this past week:
Multigame […]
If you’ve ever tried taking a cell phone picture in low-light conditions, you know how crappy they turn out. This example taken from a Nokia N73 last year shows you just how bad they can turn out. Notice the purple tint in the black areas?
The reason for this is simple: current cameras don’t see […]
Sometimes I think these companies like Jupiter Research make these predictions just to boost their own sense of self-importance. Take the latest buzzword technology–in this case Mobile WiMax–come up with some reasonable sounding numbers–will get 80 million users by 2013–and then publish a report about it. The press and the blogosphere go wild.
These may be […]
An email from Andy Abramson informed me about another one of our brethren struck with heart trouble: Om Malik. From Om’s post today:
I had a heart attack on Dec. 28. I was able to walk into the hospital for treatment that night and have been recovering here ever since. With the support of my family […]
I had no idea the kid in these commercials, Donavan Freberg, was the son of Stan Freberg, nor that Stan Freberg himself came up with and was the voice on these great commercials. Unfortunately, the twits at Gizmodo won’t allow this video to be embedded, so you’ll have to go to Gizmodo and see it […]
I think Don Reisigner might be overreacting a tad on the fact that the Carphone Warehouse CEO says that camera phones are causing the low-end of the digital camera market to shrink. Reisigner seems to extrapolate this statement to mean the death of dedicated digital cameras on the whole.
As much as I personally use my […]
This meme seems to go around every so often. This time I was tagged by The Gabby Geek. You can read my last attempt at this. Here’s another 8 things you may not know about me.
1. In my professional life, I have spent more time working from my home than I’ve spent working in an […]
I have to share this bit from Luca’s Funny Predictions For 2008:
Phoneboy will blog and blog and blog and blog: the last week of December 2008, Phoneboy’s Week post will contain 97 articles
I can’t decide whether to make that a personal challenge or check myself into a 12-step program today?
I sat down over the course of the past week or so to try and articulate what I’m thinking I’d like to do about my blogging in 2008. It seems to have taken on a life of it’s own this year thanks to becoming a blogger for Creative Weblogging and getting a bit more involved […]
Before the electrical telegraph was invented, there was the optical telegraph. Optical telegraph were the “smoke signals” of their day, making it possible to communicate messages over a long distance.
According to an article on optical telegraphs,optical telegraph networks existed all over Europe and North America until the electrical telegraph was invented. They were able to […]
If you celebrate Christmas, hope you got what you wanted, or at least what you needed. If you don’t celebrate, I hope you had a good time anyway. Was a pretty slow week, but that’s to be expected of the week between Christmas and New Years.
Here’s what I managed to write this past week:
Jajah Giving […]
It almost seems anti-climatic for Netscape to finally say “we’re no longer supporting the Netscape web browser,” given that they’ve had their clocked cleaned by Microsoft and spun off the development effort to the Mozilla Foundation. However, for many years after they did this, AOL curiously kept pumping out a Netscape-branded web browser.
Why? The answer […]
Earlier on I had posted an entry about looking for a new blogger for The Wired Home Weblog. I have since deleted that blog post because it turns out they don’t actually need one–Ruth has one in the queue ready to go for January. Meanwhile, I will probably throw up a couple of posts there […]
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