And I thought I was the only one who jumped when the phone rang thinking “What is that strange sound? Oh, the phone!” I definitely prefer e-mail and IM to phone calls. My wife and I IM between my and her home offices. The phone is great and I often “resort” to it when the…

Follow up to the previous article posted here. Bad web forms can kill a very good e-commerce site faster than you can say close window. Part 1 is here Do Your Web Forms Show Good Form?, Part 2

Great interview. Worth reading all three pages. Clearly this blog is “Blogger Powered”, but the ideas presented here are important. I'm not chearleading for Blogger. I like Blogger and all, being free is important, but I would like to try other open-source or GPL blog software in the future. Google's Blogger Boss Focuses on the…

Webfeeds and blogging must be important if Microsoft wants to get their figures into. I'm sure they'll use their money to launch a free Blogging site to complete with Blogger and link it to MSN. Then they'll add interesting features, but will only work if you use IE…then the marketshare daemon will raise it's ugly…

If you write for the web read this article. Ms Dwyer makes excellent points (many of which I am going to apply to my redesigned site soon), the only one I am waffling on is writing in first and second person. Common business practice is to write in the third person for things like “Larix…

An interesting move, given MoveableType's recent licensing changes. I haven't tried Radio Userland. I did try using Frontier in my by-gone Mac days and met Dave Winer at a MacWorld in 1995. Even though some think that blogging is now passé, I think it is actually starting a renaissance. With the explosion of RSS and…

Although this blog is powered by Blogger.com, at some point I might like more control and flexibility. I had investigated MoveableType and thought it seemed a little pricey. Robin Good makes some good open-source suggests. Worth checking. Movable Type Too Expensive? Check Out The Alternatives – RG News

I can't count how many times I've “Googled” someone. I concur with the article in that is it a great way to learn a little more about someone or a company and to see what old e-mail posts from a long forgotten mail list lurk in the depths of Cyberspace.You do have to be careful,…

An interesting piece from Internetnews.com. Firstly it made jump right the the Trillian website to look for the plugins mentioned. Then there is my opinion. I see IM going a lot further. Granted Yahoo, AIM, and MSN are probably going to stick to some basic features, maybe add some new things here and there, but…

There is huge potential in this. TV signals, as we all know, can travel tremendous distances and aren't limited by line of sight. And, of course, can go through walls. Consumer applications of this might be interesting. First go to your TV and see what channels you don't get, set the hardware…That probably would be…