ReadWriteWeb Turns 5

Congratulations to the entire RWW team, they collectively author one of the best new media sites covering technology. Sean Ammirati was over to our house for dinner on Saturday night and we were talking about the evolution of blogs to fully featured new media sites, RWW being a great example of this.

What is interesting is [...]

Gotcha in WP 2.5

This is actually a bigger deal that it would appear on the surface for people who are self-hosting Wordpress, like me, and use widgets. The way it works in v2.3 is that you can use Wordpress widgets or drop script blocks in the template, but apparently you can’t have both approaches in the same sidebar. [...]

Fractured Comments

Back in Jan I wrote about the need for a comment protocol in the blogosphere. This is about much more than just tracking comments, it’s about comment discovery as well. Today, with FriendFeed and other services adding commenting in the meta layer, well the need for comment portability is even more critical.

The bell has been [...]

Twitter Add-on for Ecto

Just found this Twitter add-on for Ecto which tweets when I publish a blog post. Could FriendFeed be a subset of Twitter?

CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA!

Whenever I run into a captcha I wonder what the effect is on participation when it is conceivable that a significant percentage of internet users will abandon the effort after a few failed attempts. It’s not uncommon that I will have to enter captcha text 2-3 times before succeeding (typepad seems most problematic for me). [...]

Act 2: Buyer’s Remorse

Yesterday I wrote about the Techmeme blogger reaction to Google Sites, basically critical of it because it’s a pattern that is all too familiar: Google comes out with something new or updated and says it’s x or y and A-list blogger first reaction is to throw the company up on their shoulders and take a [...]

Live Blogging We Media Miami

I am speaking on two panels today at We Media here in sunny Miami. I’ll try to get an @eventtrack going with Twitter, but I’m going to live blog as well.

Congratulations to Dan Farber

Dan is one of the people I have been fortunate to meet and get to know over the years. He is deserving of this promotion to CNET and I wish him good fortune going forward. I really can’t say enough good things about Dan so I’ll just leave it at that!

Big news at [...]

LiveWriter Envy

I don’t have any experience with LiveWriter but I trust Dennis’ judgement on these matters and I have yet to hear someone speak ill of LiveWriter. It is somewhat surprising that there is a dearth of innovation in blogging tools, just a lot of incrementalism. If Microsoft included a version of LiveWriter in MacOffice, well [...]

We Don’t Need No Stinkin Bloggers

We received an interesting email today from Business Wire, a press release wire service that Warren Buffett bought in March 2006. Currently Business Wire is ranked about #32 on the Techmeme Leaderboard, which puts it above some top tech blogs (but not ReadWriteWeb, which is ranked #6 currently). The email claimed that companies [...]

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