Month: April 2004
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Positive article on CNET
Mark Glaser has some kudos, historical and current, in OJR. CNET’s Expansion May Signal a Turnaround in Tech Journalism
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The end of Radio silence
I’m not sure what I ‘kicked’ this morning that finally did the trick, but now the home page and my RSS feed are updating again. I’ve had “Radio silence” for over 10 days due to some still-undetermined glitch in my Radio Userland set-up. Back on the air, broadcasting to my six (seven?) readers.
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NPR’s April Fool’s Joke
I didn’t hear this live on All Things Considered, so thanks to Dennis for the pointer: Post Office Calls for Portable ‘Vanity’ Zip Codes
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Ten words or less
Mark Pilgrim boils syndication (RSS + aggregation etc.) down to ten words. Smart bookmarks that tell you when your favorite sites change. Nicely done.
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Is no one else listening?
At work, I replied to the half-dozen readers who wrote in to complain about a large advertisement on our site. (Turns out that our use of cookies to limit its frequency meant that the audience most likely to be annoyed was also the audience most likely to see the ad more than intended. But that’s…
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Still struggling with Radio, but…
…there is hope. Lawrence Lee is helping out, and everything except the home page the RSS feed (which is all anyone reads, honestly) is up to date. So I’m close. I also realize that I don’t have the time/energy to switch this blog to a new CMS anytime soon. I’ll try and update the template,…
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1GB is for real
OK, GMail is for real, not a joke. 1GB. Google realized email has much higher switching costs, so they are going to disrupt Hotmail and Yahoo… or at least force their costs up.