Blogs have reached the pont where, like e-mail and websites before them, they are a powerful tool for moblizing people in grassroots campaigns. Is this because they are better grassroots tools than e-mail or websites? To some extent yes, they do have the give and take of discussion board, but really I think their power…

On Thursday, while watching CSI, I wrote about MS buying Lookout Software and that I downloaded the application to try. Now to be honest I haven't had the need to find a something since I installed. So I don't have the “holy smokes it saved my butt” kind of review. This is pretty basic. The…

Creator of the web turns knightSir Tim! If there is one man in this world who has changed it so much in so little time (only ten years!), Tim Berners-Lee is the man. This is an honour well deserved. All because Berners-Lee is dyslexic and wanted a new way to organize information in a way…

Now isn’t this interesting. I was just looking at this tool a few days ago. Google is making a tool. Apple is working on a tool. X1 is a hot tool. I’ve just downloaded Lookout to give it a whirl. If I were MS, I would give the tool away for free. Just have it…

Earlier in the week I wrote about trying Macromedia's Breeze and Convoq's ASAP today I had the chance to put ASAP to the test. As it turned out this test not only tested ASAP but LiveMeeting and proved again why Boy Scouts are on to something. My meeting today was scheduled to be held over…

Feed Readers: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been Amy's article isn't compelling for her reviews of different feed readers, it's compelling because it talks about another person leaving the Windows platform. I'm not a huge fan of Windows. I use it for necessity, really. I wonder if Amy isn't alone. Leaving IE, then leaving…

This is news! This is an amazing step for corporate users to be able to use one client to access all their friends and contacts. While this could be looked on as making it easier for people to goof off at work, I know that many people use IM, public IM, to chat with vendors,…

This is an odd sort of post for this blog, but it is a good read. Think about how you develop ideas. How do they get going? How many are all set on the drawing board, but then don't get done? Just think and read on… Idea Analysis and the Parabolic Weenie RoasterJuly 15, 2004…

Maybe my hopes for avoiding a Blubble have been dashed. Here is an excerpt from the most recent Blogger Knowledge post: What If?What if building a web site were as easy as surfing the web? What if it were free and it you didn't have to learn about HTML? What if you could build web…

Blogging must be picking up steam if companies have started buying each other. My only hope is that a “Blog Bubble” (maybe a “Blubble”?) doesn't form then there will be all the hype and such that fueled the Dot Com bubble. Six Apart Blogs in EuropeWeblog tools vendor Six Apart has announced the acquisition of…