People You Should Know: Dave Winer

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

There are people in the tech world who have reputations, and then there people who have Reputations. Dave Winer is definitely the latter. He is one of the many folks responsible for the syndication, Read/Write phenomenon going on these days. He helped push RSS, CMS and blogging tools in the Web ...

Why Lifestreaming Sucks…

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

I'm all about aggregating yourself online. Right now, we just don't do it very well. There's not an open protocol in all services that allows me to pull feeds from all the different online activities that I do. Instead, I have to run from this application to that application in an ...

The Page View Problem: Gawker Sacks Editor

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Gawker Media fired one of its editors today because she wasn't bringing in enough page views, a killer for an online media company. I don't know the particulars of Gawker Media's business model, so I don't know whether it was a smart move. However, I'll be at their party next week ...