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It’s fun bitching and sniping, and believe me I’m not about to stop.  But it’s easy to bitch and snipe about the wrong things.  We need to stay on message, the same as Barack and everyone else.
The Galloping Curmudgeon: Buckling Down and Paying Attention

Starting Monday, five major areas of MySpace will receive a major redesign and feature upgrade: navigation, profile editor, search, and MySpaceTV player. MySpace says it’s hoping to improve usability and introduce more engaging features to build community. From the press release, we also sense a strong undertone of nudging users towards cleaning up what many [...]

1. Try to be original. No one cares if you do stuff the same way the rest of us do. If you haven’t got something new to say, don’t bother.
2. Unless it’s about opinions, keep them to yourself unless you’re an expert on the subject. You have a right to [...]

Facebook can ruin your life
Social network sites have brought unexpected pleasure to millions. But if present trends continue and users fail to wise up, the sites could soon be bringing them some equally unexpected shocks….

In his message for the Catholic Church’s World Communications Day, Benedict said that while the media did much good, it was also often used for ideological reasons and tried to create reality rather than report it.
“When communication loses its ethical underpinning and eludes society’s control, it ends up no longer taking into account the centrality [...]

For those of you who’ve been wondering where you could put a free blog that will accept all those photographs from your vacation in Patagonia — and Antarctica — and Africa — and China — and… — you need look no further.  As of Monday, WordPress is offering 3 Gigabytes of free storage for all [...]

While Trojan 2.0 may sound like the latest in a long line of terms that have attempted to piggyback on the market recognition of Web 2.0, Finjan’s decision to refer to the emerging generation of Trojans thus has some merit because Trojan 2.0 code exploits Web 2.0 systems and software.
As Finjan explains in its report, [...]

…and I’ll be taking the day off. But, in the spirit of the season, please accept this greeting.
Bill

Last month, Kristin Sloan, a comely member of the New York City Ballet, began appearing in a television ad for the iPhone, one in a series of Real People telling slightly implausible stories against a black backdrop. Ms. Sloan’s tale—that she runs a dancers’ blog called The Winger, and sometimes mobile-blogs backstage on her iPhone [...]

WordPress is now the No. 2 most-visited blog host, passing rival SixApart’s TypePad last month, according to the latest tally from Nielsen Online. WordPress-hosted sites drew 11.4 million unique visitors last month, representing 444% year-over-year growth, while TypePad-hosted sites drew 10.6 million uniques, up 20% year-over-year. Google’s (GOOG) Blogger is still No. 1 with 34.1 [...]