Today the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 416 points (about 3.3 percent). According to the Washington Post the main free fall in the market was “triggered by a technological glitch that caused a backlog of trades to be calculated at nearly the same time.” The story reported that about $600 [...]

England has now posted the First ‘ignore your sat nav’ roadsigns on roads where satellite navigation equipment literally steer drivers down the wrong path.

I switched my RSS feed over to feedburner. They provide stats for all the RSS readers subscribed to your blog. Thanks for the tip Chris.

The Roanoke Times and Roanoke.com has recently become one of the most celebrated online news operations (with references from Howard Owens and Rob Curley among others). Well, they are looking for a new editor and their ad for an editor is a little different because they are looking for a [...]

What does it mean when your wife sends you this article and says “This is what would happen to you if you lived in China.” China treats Internet ‘addicts’ sternly That makes me sort of scared for what she might have planned.

XM Radio and Sirius announced a merger yesterday. I guess the real question for is how satellite radio will look after the merger is over. Will the lack of competition between products cause the stations to offer fewer channels and fewer viewpoints? Will the lack of competition cause radio and [...]

The US Patent office has just issued Yahoo a patent for customizable web page. In 1997 Yahoo filed a patent for a “dynamic page generator” that allowed a user to save a page and then have that page generate customized information. Just stop for a second and think about all [...]

Mega newspaper corporation Gannett reviewed their business strategy back in December in a report to investment banking house Credit Suisse. The reports are only available as mostly boring hour long audio files, so you can go and see all the highlights posted on the Innovation in College Media blog. Here’s [...]

The Mike Huckabee exploratory committee launched a new web site. It is a big improvement over the previous iteration that I blogged about when announced he was running for president. Some of the improvements in the sight include a title (I Like Mike), campaign blog, video, links to social networking [...]

I’ve used a few of web analytic tools over the year, but by far my favorite was ClickTracks. They even made me a featured user on their site last year. My first web stat tool was Analog and then I added the Report Magic package onto it to build visual [...]