This past week has been a weird one in terms of technology. First there was some issues (perhaps residual) from Twitter’s downtime and then Google had issues with Gmail being down for at least a day and FourSquare having trouble yesterday and now WordPress is reporting a major security issue with its self-hosted option?
In all [...]

In my weekly encounters, there are typically one or two events that I will peruse and maybe even a few conferences here and there. Often I find myself with my camera snapping photos and posting them onto Flickr under Creative Commons, specifically non-commercial, non-derivative and atrribution licensing. To see where these photographs appear, I enlist [...]

Okay, I must confess that there’s a secret that I’ve hidden away from everyone. It’s not a life-altering secret, but I’m afraid that I need to come clean: I don’t read blogs on a regular basis. There’s no need for me to do that. Allow me to explain…
While I have a lot of blogs listed [...]

I ran into a good friend at this year’s Web 2.0 conference & expo here in San Francisco and while talking to her & a couple of her friends, I was asked about my thoughts on whether it’s a good thing for Google to be acquiring Twitter. My response? It should not happen.
Just why would [...]