It’s an interesting term, “noob”. Sometimes it is used to mean lacking intelligence or common sense. Other times it is used to mean “new at something”. However, the term can’t be accurately used to describe someone screwing up at something they’ve been doing for a long time. For example, someone using the internet for over a year can’t say they are new, as an excuse for doing something inappropriate.

Let’s look at an example of how thinking before doing something or using common sense can go a long way in stopping embarrassing interactions.

Interesting move. I wonder how many others will have access to the archive, and I have a couple of other questions.

Site speed is important. Google will be using site speed to calculate Page Rank. If you have cheap hosting, load your site down with slow responding scripts…your site might be penalized (Page Rank wise) for it.

Apple recently announced their intention to start a mobile advertising network called iAds. One of the potential changes in policy would restrict existing ad networks from passing on information needed to serve targeted advertising, which is the main reason why companies are interested in mobile advertising. Targeted ads are supposed to be more relevant to the viewer.

I take a closer look at why I think Apple is making this move, along with other decisions Apple has been making recently.

Apple recently made the decision to restrict the applications that can be used on their devices. Most people are seeing the obvious diss to Adobe, who created software to convert other formats to iPhone/iPad/iTouch compatible formats. I think there is a larger problem Apple is trying to resolve.

If their current iPhone/iPad/iTouch applications became cross platform, that opens the doors wider for competition to take away their market share. The truth: the iPhone is Apple’s money maker and they have to do what they can to protect it.

Success is a beautiful thing but sometimes, it comes before the person receiving the success is ready to handle it. That is what happened, in my opinion, to Daniel Brusilovsky. Allegedly Daniel, a 17-year-old technology writer, tried to receive a Macbook Air as compensation in exchange for writing an article for TechCrunch. When the owners of TechCrunch found out what happened, they investigated, found the tip correct, fired Daniel and removed all of his content from the site.

Everyone makes mistakes, some bigger than others. How does one recover?

Google announced Chrome OS and of course, that brought the “Microsoft should be scared” articles. Let’s look at why that’s not true.

Rupert Murdoch said he was thinking about pulling NewsCorp content from search engines if they shift to charging for content. Of course, this got people’s panties in a bunch on the topic of content on the internet always being free. How moronic.

In World of Warcraft I have tons of stuff to do. I can imagine some people complaining their is too much to do. I read an article today about RSS being a burden like email (and unlike Twitter) and I couldn’t help but laugh. Amazing how people place unnecessary burdens upon themselves.