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Archive for September, 2006

Replacing the Page Views Metric

Page Views are Obsolete by Evan Williams (CEO of Odeo) is the post I wish I wrote when I wrote this piece on page views. Thanks Evan; I wish I had seen your post first, it would have saved me the time of writing mine.
The key quote from Evan’s post: “There’s a big opportunity [...]

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Will Surfer Rosa ever get old? I’ve been listening this album about twice a month for 3+ years. To say it was “ahead of its time” is a disgrace on so many levels:
1. The triteness of the expression.
2. The understatement of how far ahead of their time the Pixies were when they recorded [...]

I have been an avid reader of Dead 2.0 ever since Scoble’s first link. I like the way he (or she) attempts to cut through the crap, and he has a sharp, quick-witted writing style. Unfortunately, in his recent interview with Rapleaf CEO Auren Hoffman, Dead 2.0 misses the most important and hard-hitting question [...]

Berry Bloglines

I have to give a quick shoutout to a new CrackBerry app I’m a fan of: Berry Bloglines.
I have 82 feeds in my Bloglines, and each feed is quite active (as a general rule I kill feeds that don’t update at least once a week). So there’s a lot of information there; yet Berry [...]

Growing Pains

I apologize to anyone having problems viewing my blog lately. I have been tinkering with a new template. I’m excited about the 3-column Anaconda theme I found, but Dreamhost FTP has been giving me trouble (typical Dreamhost these days), and I’m slow to get all my javascript snippets and tracking copied over.
Anyway, if [...]

NY Tech Meetup

I attended the New York Tech Meetup last night. I attended one in the Bay Area when I lived there, so it wasn’t my first meetup experience, but it was my first time seeing Scott Heifernan in action, which was entertaining. The line-up was generally weak, but nonetheless, I was entertained by Ether [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post wondering if Digg could ever be a competitive and comprehensive search engine.  Jason Calacanis has taken the first step by incorporating Netscape News results on top of Google results in the Netscape search page.  It’s worth a look, but it isn’t even close to being a Google [...]