Archive for November, 2007

Kindle previews, now on sale in the US

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Whatever your opinions on Kindle (I still think it's fugly, but it is growing on me), you could do worse than to spend a little time looking at it on Amazon's product page. The most interesting thing? We wanted Kindle to be completely mobile and simple to use for everyone, so we ...

3/100 Should My Town Use Social Media?

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I would suggest that the towns are already using social media. A society, although organic and susceptible to memes, it doesn't really have directed cognitive abilities. Sure, it can take advantage of the wisdom of crowds but more than not will be distracted by mob-thought. You only have to log onto FaceBook ...

Amazon Kindle: eBooks done right?

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I'm interested in seeing what Amazon has come up with, as scooped by Newsweek. We'll see a lot more information tomorrow as the NDAs clear. It's a paperback-sized eBook reader with a 167dpi screen (just slightly sharper than the iPhone and iPod touch), with a always-on internet connection and 30 hours ...

2/100. Ways I Embrace My Audience

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Frankly, I don't think I do. On LateGaming, I write about gaming/fiction and I guess it embodies my creative side. On NiMUG I get my Mac fix. There's a couple of other places I write (sometimes anonymously) and they have their niches. Here I vent. To be honest I'm not really aware of ...

Microsoft reviews the iPhone: “a lousy iPod”

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Is it a qualification or essential criteria to be an idiot if you work in the higher echelons of Microsoft? From the NYTimes, J. Allard, chief of Microsoft's competing Zune unit whines about the iPhone: It’s a lousy iPod. You can’t skip a track without looking at it. You can’t go running ...

Entitlement cos you’re a blogger?

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

The always entertaining John Welch rips the Scobleizer a new one when Robert Scoble, media darling, has a hissy fit because an update didn't work out the way he thought it would. Just how out of touch do you have to be to start acting like you have the right to ...

For Microsoft, developing and selling software has fallen by the wayside

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

I hate agreeing with John Dvorak. I hate it because it usually means I'm wrong. Not just "Oh well" wrong but seriously, dangerously, life-threateningly wrong. Article Until now, Microsoft could sell code better than anyone, but it seems the company would rather sell services: software as a service, ads, search engine results—you ...

1/100. How I use FaceBook

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

Chris Brogan writes: So, on my plane ride home from San Francisco, I decided to write you up 100 blog post titles that I want YOU to write. Number 1: How I use FaceBook I really seem to be an oddity on Facebook. Her indoors has used Facebook to connect with friends she ...

Angry Catharsis

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I don't have an anger problem. It's been said to me recently that I get annoyed or frustrated but not angry. But then PJ reckons I write angry posts. Am I angry? I think I display some symptoms of Passive Anger (Dispassion and Evasiveness) but these can be explained (or perhaps justified). ...

Stop defection: using FUD and avoidance

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

The other mobile networks in the UK are shitting themselves. Fraser Speirs gives us an anecdote of the lies and FUD told by T-Mobile when he decided to ditch his contract and switch to an iPhone on O2. Firstly, there was a warning that “there are lots of problems with the ...