A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
15 March 2005
One month til tax day and what are people thinking about?
* Andy Sack – it’s not competition that kills small companies, it is lack of monetizable demand… * Phil Bogle on walled gardens, social networks, and openness; on social networks as web services. Phil is one smart mofo, ignore him at your peril. * Johnza is feeling badly about his job – he’s been tagged as a liar, quack, and cheat. But you can catch him speaking at DMA World * Martin finds Gurley’s blog and Gurley is right in blasting the state legislators who are helping to reinforce old telecom monopolists. * Rich of course has a ton of tech pointers – decoding blue screen error codes (isn’t it amazing that google is a better way to get answers than the windows help system is?); Via’s Luke platform, another great small pc component; how to reset any flavor of ipod (mine is beyond a simple reset, it is time to go to the apple store); the latest mt plugins for antispam and other malposts * Michelle loves gardenweb as a source of household recommendations