Category: blogging

2 September 2008

SSPR? Blackholed.

Filed under: blogging, pr - 02 Sep 2008

SSPR pulled the same stunt on me as they did on Ken, for exactly the same company that Ken got spammed, I might add. I am not going to bother reprinting the email–it’s the same as Ken’s for the most …

26 August 2008

With Jaiku Still Down, What Are People Doing?

Filed under: Services, blogging - 26 Aug 2008

Jaiku, Google’s social networking service it acquired last year, has been completely offline since Friday …

25 August 2008

Lessons About Writing From Ray Bradbury

Filed under: blogging - 25 Aug 2008

Famed Science Fiction author Ray Bradbury recently celebrated his 88th Birthday. Perhaps one of my favorite …

11 August 2008

The PhoneBoy Blog Now Mobile Friendly

Filed under: blogging, mobile phones, phoneboy - 11 Aug 2008

If you access phoneboy.com from a mobile phone, you should automatically be presented with a mobile-friendly version of the site. If for some reason, that detection fails, you can also manually get into mobile mode by entering one of the …

Announcing Joy of Gadgets

Filed under: blogging, gadgets - 11 Aug 2008

Since I parted ways with Creative Weblogging, and I liked some of the fringe benefits of writing for a gadgets blog, I decided I had better start my own: Joy of Gadgets.

If you visit the site, …

9 August 2008

Twitterfone Version 2: Listen and Reply To Tweets, Too!

Filed under: blogging, twitter, voip - 09 Aug 2008

TwitterFone - Now you can listen too from TwitterFone on Vimeo.
Twitterfone provides the …

8 August 2008

PhoneBoy’s Rule on Press Embargos

Filed under: blogging, business - 08 Aug 2008

Jeff Pulver had an interesting post about embargoed press releases being sent unsolicited to bloggers. The general point he raised was: don’t send unsolicited embargoed information to him. The comments on this post helped …

27 July 2008

A Few Less Blogs To Tend To

Filed under: blogging, business - 27 Jul 2008

I wasn’t planning to post at all during my vacation, but I felt this needed to be posted, especially since I mentioned this on Twitter, et. al.

As of now, Creative Weblogging and I have parted ways. This means I am …

22 July 2008

Coming To Terms With Disclosure

Filed under: blogging, business - 22 Jul 2008

Pat Phelan followed a story about video blogger Sarah Austin, who was getting paid by Flixwagon and there was no disclosure about this fact anywhere. There was nothing in the contracts that forbid disclosure, but she did not want …

16 July 2008

WebbleYou Closing Its Doors

Filed under: blogging - 16 Jul 2008

WebbleYou sent me an email today letting me know they are closing their doors at the end of this month. I was writing (very) infrequently …

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