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Friday, July 18, 2008 10:49 AM/EST

The Tail That Wags the Dog

Om Malik says, "even Silicon Valley can't ignore what's been going on in the overall economy." It's an important post. The consumer-spending analysis is not pretty, and it resonates far beyond the tech industry. But something that jumped out...

Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:36 PM/EST

Archie Bunker Is Not The Problem

I know a woman of a certain age who is a straight-up bigot -- Archie Bunker with an expensive haircut and a charming Southern accent. She's an avowed homophobe and freely admits that she'd never vote for Obama because...

Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:18 AM/EST

Your Online Community Stinks

While you're coming to terms with the fact that your blog stinks, you might want to consider that your social networking effort is lame, too. Thirty-five percent of the online communities studied have less than 100 members; less than...

Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:57 AM/EST

Mighty Mouse

Gartner predicts death of the mouse. Count me among the skeptics. The mouse is too useful and too habitual to go away so quickly. I love the detail in the video below that the world's fourth-largest computer network in...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 3:53 PM/EST

Not By Web Alone

I'm going to keep going back to Zephyr Teachout's online-is-about-offline meme until I run out of pixels. Today's excuse is the grand opening of new Obama field offices in North Carolina (I guess the Greensboro office isn't on the...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:49 PM/EST

Apple's Walled Garden

Dave Winer on the iPhone: "[P]eople who believe in open systems who bet heavy on such a closed system are going to learn again why they love open systems." Dave references Nik Cubrilovic, who writes: "Geeks and enthusiasts wearing...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:08 AM/EST

Rebooting America

Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age is an anthology of essays put together by the folks at Personal Democracy Forum. The central theme is using technology to improve government and politics. The writers are...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:43 AM/EST

When "Not PC" Doesn't Mean You Prefer Mac

HP gets into the mobile data center business. I'm not a particularly PC guy -- I'm one of the half-dozen or so people who admits to liking the New Yorker's Obama cover, and I still call mobile homes "mobile...

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:40 PM/EST

The Dog That Didn't Bark

My hometown of Greensboro, NC, is not one of the smoking craters of the mortage meltdown, nor is it immune to the problems facing the larger economy. It's so much in the mainstream, in fact, that the New York...

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:12 PM/EST

No Sun in This Cloud

Salesforce.com, long the poster child for Sun Microsystem's software-as-a-service business, is ditching Sun's hardware and Solaris software for machines from Dell running the Linux operating system. The Register reports: "The move comes as Salesforce.com prepares to bring up a...



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