Is something other than Twitter inevitable?

I hate Internet outages about as much as power outages without a deck of cards, but even worse is when that one Internet service you rely on is unavailable. You can check the scores at TSN and you can get the weather, but Twitter is down… again.
I haven’t been on Twitter for nearly as [...]

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Communicators better get wired

I like the Internet because it has a lot to offer. It’s an avenue for communication, it breaks down geographical boundaries and it’s fast. I came across an article recently by Om Malik called Big Growth for the Internet Ahead, Cisco Says and the graphic caught my eye.

For an Internet enthusiast this is [...]

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Building a super forum: Episode 4

Bookmarks were great for everyone until the inevitable happened; the price of computers went down, every student got a laptop and before you knew it your day consisted of working on one, two and maybe even three computers. It’s a real hardship for tech junkies, I know.
I looked around a while for solutions to [...]

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Are you satisfied?

Getsatisfaction is a community based website that is based on representatives of companies and consumers coming together in a constructive Internet space to share ideas and problems. It seems limited in company participation at this time, but has the potential to be quite powerful to give consumers a voice.
Is Getsatisfaction worth our time?
Once registered on [...]

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Noodle Code

When I first tripped over this ‘blog’ idea on the Internet, there was ‘the good’ and there was ‘the bad.’
Blogs are good in that they allow anyone to become a publisher and share their ideas with the world. They also allow anyone to, at least mentally, have their own website.
How are blogs bad? [...]

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