Random Articles

• Niche like a Weather Forecast Eric Rice asks about the relationship between niche information and income levels. At first glance, I don’t think there’s a relationship. Everything is niche. I trust people all along the income scale are looking for very relevant information. Though, it could be I live so far down the tail, that I doubt the existence of
• Spring Cleaning at the Work Better Weblog So we’re back. My apologies if you stopped by over the last couple days to find us not here. I was working on a new visual presentation for the website and the CMS ended up not cooperating. Everything is mostly back to normal now. Though for the next few days, if you hit the site,
• Un-Plumb We’ve been introduced to a number of crazy characters this election season; Joe Sixpack, Hockey Mom, Senator Government, and Joe the Plumber. Signs of Jumping the Shark #18: “Introduction of new characters to revive interest, particularly young, cute children who are clearly intended to replace regulars who once were but have grown up.” “In the nightmarish near-future, galloping
• “It’s been devastating to innovation” While listening to John Gruber & Dan Benjamin’s - The Talk Show #24, I was reminded about one of my pet peeves with all the free software - it completely kills the innovation1. John and Dan were talking about email. I feel the same way about email clients as I do about feed readers - they’re
• Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:02:28 PM “Turns out CDs melt.  So we started shipping USBs” - Ross Mayfield, SocialText Actually, I’m still surprised more music, movies, software, etc, aren’t sold in USB form. A while back, I predicted that Apple would be the first to stop shipping computers with optical drives. That’s yet to happen. I still think it will.