I’ve been thinking about technology adoption lately and trying to make a better connection between adoption theory and actual buying behavior. Classic marketing theory suggests that all new technologies go through a bell curve of…
BBC: "These bloody people. I can’t bear that man. I mean, he’s so awful, he really is." Prince Charles of BBC Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell.
Mike Manuel (Media Guerrilla) was kind enough to invite me to try out Yahoo! 360 (thanks Mike). There are already lots of detailed reviews available (here and here via Dave Winer) and I’ve only had…
Lots of chatter about Yahoo!’s new momentum with Yahoo! 360, the Flickr acquisition and Mobile RSS. Om Malik weighs in with some analysis and explanation. At the same time, Google seems to have lost the…
…slurps coffee on an overcast Easter Sunday, catching up on week’s flagged news while contemplating going for a run to offset impending chocolate overload…time to check out two interesting grassroots media projects which launched this…
The BBC quotes Dave Winer on the commercialization of podcasting: "No matter how you look at it, commercialising this medium isn’t going to make very much money," he says. "Podcasting is going to be a…
Wired: Much of the news and blog coverage surrounding the Apple Computer lawsuit has centered on the rights of bloggers versus those of professional journalists. While this is certainly an issue worth exploring, and something…
CNET: Bloggers should be classified as journalists and given First Amendment protections based on the function they perform, not the form of their transmissions. Properly understood, the First Amendment applies to all those who report…
The acquisiton of Flickr by Yahoo! still baffles me. Not the deal itself which was widely rumored and seems to be a good fit. No it’s the nature of the announcement. It was made via…
Papercasting: File under ‘Fantastically pointless but hilarious abuse of technology’ – write your blog posts on paper, scan them and post up the images. Call it a ‘plog’ – job done. Great stuff. Credits: CNET