Finding the chase and cutting to it

Twitter has easily replaced RSS as the communication channel of choice.
Only 5 years ago, RSS was seen as the most effective way to allow web viewers to receive federated content.

Two things changed this.
First: Firefox 2 and IE 7, launched within days of each other in October 2006, both chose to only render RSS (along with [...]

Mathematicians are not generally known for being team players.  Mathematicians are seen as being scary, clever in a sit down and think kind of way but definitely not team players.  You don’t think of Netwon in a lab surrounded by a bunch of fellow mathematicians or Einstein having a coffee with David Hilbert while discussing [...]

I’ve been a big fan of the smart phone ever since my husband came home with his Sony P800.
I hung on though and treated myself to a Siemens SX1: I never did get my mail to work reliably but we had browser email access, so in a real emergency, that was always an option.
Jon then [...]

there is no single correct answer for achieving a goal

Trust is vital in any open source community, although it is through absolute strangers.
This is an interesting concept though: can you trust someone you’ve never met and can you trust someone you know well if they’ve let you down?
It is often a lot easier to trust someone you’ve never met.  This is how friendships are [...]

or how cheap and easy tools make life easy
sounds good doesn’t it: write it, get it authorised and publish it.

toothpastefordinner.com
This is the whole basis of blogs - they do this job superbly.  Yet most businesses are still outsourcing this job through expensive packages and complicated processes.
But life really doesn’t have to be that hard.  Or [...]

money for God’s sake… The life of any web page has always been judged on three things:

accessibility of information
ease on the mind
ease on the mouse

anything else is a bonus.  Image my surprise then when Cuil was launched.  Black is the new white it seems…
I mean, Google won users by being empty - no garish logos, [...]

I’ve lost my broadband connection: I know, careless really. Given that fixed line broadband takes five working days to install, I was nearly going out of my mind. I was given a lot of help by my friends in how to restablish my status - thank you all but I ended up getting [...]

Hi, this is my first blog entry: so apologies if I don’t get it right this time round!
I want this tool to allow me to put up gut reactions and views and allow me to work on them based on comments I receive. So please make comments!
This entry is going to be about facebook…
I [...]