For a while Personal ads were all the rage in Newspapers, but that has become dated, since the Internet lets you easily post and seach through hundereds of possible dates. Now after a tremendous reception in Philadelphia, Comcast is rolling out it’s Dating On Demand service nationwide on digital cable. [...]
How to read a newspaper
John Kelly in the Washington Post wrote a great column called Read (but Not All!) About It giving readers 11 steps to read a newspaper. It a great article, but his point is all wrong. Kelly sumrise that “One of the reasons for the decline, I think, is that many [...]
What’s hot?
Do you ever feel out of touch with the real world? Sometimes that may be a good thing when you live in small town Arkansas it can be an all the time thing. One thing you can try to get in touch with the rest of the world is to [...]
Switched to Firefox
The last straw. I can’t put up with Internet Explorer any more. Way, way too many websites weren’t opening correctly in the latest version of IE (one of my friends suggested it was the java change in windows mandated by the courts). So, I switched to Firefox. This wasn’t the [...]
Blogger tips for NOT getting fired
Mark Scoble, the blogger-in-chief from Microsoft, recently had dinner with the fired Google blogger, Mark Jen. In his blog post from yesterday he gives six tips to avoid getting fired over your blog. Pretty good info to have.
From Bible to breasts?!?
Worldnet Daily reported in an article today that the controversial GoDaddy.com founder Bob Parsons also used to own the popular bible search software Quickverse. That is a pretty interesting road to walk down. You can learn more about Parson’s journey in his blog at bobparsons.com. How could I avoid that [...]
Google releases new mapping site
Google added a new map site this week as they try to keep up with the Yahoo!s and MSNs of the internet portal world. As with everything google it takes usability to the extreme and puts everything you would want to find on the front page of the site including [...]
Who owns your blog?
Last month I had a couple of posts about people who had been fired over what they wrote in their blog. InformationWeek takes the thought a step further in their cover story this week asking Who owns your weblog? The article is a pretty good read takes a look at [...]
New MSN search
After many years of development Microsoft is launching a new MSN search engine. Up until now MSN has used Yahoo!’s Akamai search (which is interesting since Yahoo uses Google’s search engine). MSN is promoting their search engine as more than just an index of the web drawing information from other [...]
Superbowl Censoring & Marketing
In general most of the Superbowl commercials and half-time show were pretty demure last night. There were a couple of ads that could be considered risque, but they weren’t seen more than once. One of the reasons that they weren’t seen more than once is that the NFL was censoring [...]