2nd UPDATE: Since this post came out, I have written a follow-up post digging deeper into my subsequent findings and explaining 10 Reasons To “Roll Your Own” TinyURL Using Wordpress, and have also created an “install instructions only, no rationales” version for your convenience.
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OK, haven’t posted in a little while, in part because I had [...]

Robert Scoble, self-styled "Tech Geek Blogger" and one of the main users and evangelists of Web 2.0 services Twitter and FriendFeed in 2008 (Robert supposedly spent about 2,500 hours  participanting on those services, prompting calls for an intervention from TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington – the post and its comment thread, on which I participated quite a [...]

GigaOM’s Om Malik yesterday posted "5 Trends That Will Separate the Strong From the Weak in 2009", where he smartly outlines technology industry trends for 2009, instead of getting into the game of making New Year’s predictions (which for just about everybody invariably turn out out to be off the mark).
Here is the one I [...]