Oh, oh, this is becoming a trend. A human being on Dell’s Web site? Calling Jeff Jarvis, calling Jeff Jarvis! Oh, he already chimed in. Steve Rubel did too and says the same thing. What did I tell Nestle when someone asked “how do you start?” Listen. Listen. Listen. Er. Technorati. Technorati. Technorati. Link to your enemies. It [...]

Last night I gave away a $1,200 Sonos music system in a random raffle at Gnomedex (hundreds of people witnessed that, and Richard MacManus was the winner). Why? Because I got it for free from the company because I’m an “A list” blogger. I’m not the only one who got one for free. It’s great [...]

Alan Lewis, developer evangelist who works at eBay, sent me this one. EBay just opened customer blogs and converted their corporate newsletter to a blog format. Alan's blog is here and it is having its big developer conference this weekend too. Oh, Christopher Coulter, please ignore. This is just more blog hype.  

Check out Netcraft's June 2006 Web Server Survey. Key things? Dramatic increase in Internet size. Oh, and Windows gained large share numbers too. Why? Blogs, the report says. Key quotes? "The Internet experienced its strongest site growth ever last month, powered by a surge in blogs and free Web sites." "Microsoft continues to gain share in the web [...]

Thinking back to my great meal in Jackson, Wyoming, what made it great? The small things. The way the apples were sliced. The way the dressing was dripped over the food. It gets to my philosophy about technology. What makes an Apple store great? It's the wood countertops. I bet most of you have never fondled [...]

My wife works for Worktank, which is a company that does a lot of stuff for Microsoft (she is one of the producers of MSDN's Webcasts). Last night she was bragging about a site that they did about Windows Vista: http://www.seewindowsvista.com/ She said that they got 39,000 unique visits in the first 24 hours of the [...]

The EirePreneur blog corrected a myth: that TechMeme was seeded solely by me. That isn't true. The original list was heavily influenced by my reading list, Gabe told me, but that original list now has changed so much that only about 4% of the blogs I was reading are part of the current list. (And [...]

The Contra Costa Times (a newspaper in Northern California) looks at why there aren't many women bloggers on the A list. They totally missed a major reason. What's that? Attendance at the early Silicon Valley geek/blogger dinners. Mena Trott (co-founder of Six Apart) was there. But there weren't many women who attended those early dinners back in [...]

I love Lifehacker. What do I love about it? It gives you all kinds of cool tips about how to live life better. Sometimes deep stuff, mostly not, but always cool and useful. Like this, Gina, who does Lifehacker, links to the Photojojo blog, which shows you how to do photo blocks. Here's another entry that shows [...]

I'm seeing more and more advertising like on jk's blog here (see the double-underlined words? They pop up as ads). I don't mind this as much as I minded SmartTags when Microsoft was attempting to do them (before I was an employee I argued voiciferously against them, along with many other people in the community because we [...]