The other day in World of Warcraft an Alliance player thought he’d be cute and PvP me. He was a lower level and he wouldn’t have won. Instead he hedged the odds in his favor so he couldn’t lose. He waited until I was in a fight, fighting multiple mobs, then used a spell to [...]
This is a topic I’ve been meaning to discuss for a long time and it applies since we are experiencing something similar with the new sites. Launches are important to the owner because it marks a milestone of a level of completion. Many companies, particularly online ones, make the mistake of putting too much into [...]
The internet is a place many come in hopes to become rich. It’s their ticket to the good life. A large amount of people not only want to be rich they want to be well-known. I always ask myself if they really know what they are opening themselves up to. I keep talking about this [...]
Dave Winer asks What is an unconference?:
It’s probably much worse than that. My guess is that if you swapped the people on stage with an equal number chosen at random from the audience, the new panelists would effectively be smarter, because they didn’t have the time to get nervous, to prepare PowerPoint slides, to make [...]
Dave Winer posted yesterday :
A friend confirmed something that I kind-of suspected. There’s at least one person who has told at least one conference organizer that he won’t come if I’m also invited. The person has name, of course, but I don’t think I should say who it is, at this time.
If you follow Dave’s [...]
Since my A-List Shuffle post, I received a lot of feedback along with a lot of questions. One question that keeps coming up is my feelings on Bloghercon.
I mentioned before that I feel niche conferences are a good idea, they foster discussion and culture. I have no problem with that. I do have a problem [...]
I read Dave Winer’s post about Chris Nolan (she said he’s stingy with links) and Dave responded he doesn’t think he is. I don’t care about that:its point #4 that I’m interested in:
If you want something read by his readers send an email with a link.
People still email with a link? That’s what Technorati and [...]
