Category: linking

  • The Kindle is for readers, the Kindle is for readers

    Web marketing guru Seth Godin has a Kindle and he seems to like it but he’d also like it to be more revolutionary in a very Godin-esque way. Okay. He’s also incredibly sexist. Godin claims the Kindle is “for women” because 1. it’s ugly and 2. the top 10 best sellers are not tech-heavy and…

  • Paper notes, paper journals, paper scribbles

    Fabulous post (in a slightly obsessive, fanboy sort of way) today by Michael Lopp, aka Rands in Repose, about the qualities that make for a great notebook — not a great notebook computer, an actual paper notebook (cap tip to Gruber for the pointer). Lopp’s got a collection of at least nine different models, including…

  • Thanks for the linkin’, Mister Churbuck I presume

    Blogger par excellence and Cape Cod resident David Churbuck had me featured on his blog as a good read yesterday. Awesome. David’s own blog chronicles his experiences as a web savvy marketing guru for Lenovo, fishing in the deep blue sea and generally being an all-around 21st century techno dude. Thanks for the link.

  • More screen space, more caffeine, less paper, less noise

    I have recently been declaring my love for my Nespresso D290 coffee maker that brews up one quick & tasty espresso at a time, so I was immediately favorably disposed toward’s Mike Gunderloy’s post over the holiday weekend on Web Worker Daily. Gunderloy has four recommendations for improving productivity for work at home folks like…

  • Kindle reviews by folks who actually have seen one

    Amidst all the misinformation about Amazon’s new Kindle electronic book reader, particularly coming from people who have never touched or used it, here’s a list of reviews from the fact-based segment of techdom: Gizmodo checks Kindle in the bedroom, on an airplane and atop the porcelain throne. Not quite a home run, just a triple,…

  • Blogoshpere’s Vista verdict? Blech. VmWare Fusion? Yum.

    Apparently I’m not alone in finding Windows Vista a less than compelling upgrade over XP. Bloggers all over, including more than a few on my daily or weekly reading list like Philip Greenspun and Joe Wilcox, seem to be finding the same irritating flaws. Those pro reviewer reviews that come out on the first day…

  • In-depth review of updated Nokia web pad raves

    (Updated 1/25 with additional review) Mike Arrington’s little blog neighborhood is growing, as I noticed today that in addition to the gadget-focused blog added back in the summer (CrunchGear) and his original Web 2.0-ish site (TechCrunch), there’s now one about mobile stuff, too. It’s named — wait for it — MobileCrunch. In any event, blogger…

  • Everbody’s thinking about S3 for backup

    I can see today that I’m hardly the only one messing around with Amazon’s super-cheap S3 online storage system as a possible off-site backup strategy. Jeremy Zawodny, whose has been wanting/predicting solid online backup for a while, says he’s experimenting with S3, but doesn’t give all the details yet (like what software is he using,…

  • Speedy blogs, speedily updated on VoIP

    Once upon a time, I kept stacks of computer magazines on hand just in case I was suddenly in the market for some gadget reviewed months earlier. Now a days, of course, the Internet has completely subsumed that role and it’s usually not the web sites of big magazines that even run the best reviews.…

  • Sony’s promising Mylo gets a poor review

    I was intrigued by Sony’s announcement of a $350 mini portable device, Mylo, that could browse the web and play multimedia files. But the first review is in, by Tim Onosko, on Dave Farber’s Interesting People list and couldn’t be more negative: “Mylo, in my opinion, is a classic case of overpromising and underdelivering. It…