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Why that blog post may not be worth the page views
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on January 27, 2008
One of the things about blogging that can be really irritating is the habit of posting before putting one’s brain in gear. I bet you are like me and have seen posts being published that either later turn out to be down right stupid right through to borderline irresponsible. Claims get made and accusations get flung all in order to be among the first to post about something or to get a reaction...
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Social media will never have society defining moments
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on February 02, 2008
When I was going through my teen years there was no such thing as the Internet; or even its predecessor AARPNET, and much of what we got for news of what was happening in the world came from magazines and newspapers. Even at that point television wasn’t the predominate method of getting news; although I think that really changed with the assassinations of JFK and MLK. For my family with the...
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Microsoft - the 10,000 pound chicken with its head cut off
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on February 03, 2008
All evening I have being trying to come to grips with this whole Microsoft, Yahoo and Google thing. I’ve been reading and rereading the puff type posts and the equally well thought out posts on the last events of the last couple of days. Everyone from MG Siegler with his twoexcellent posts on the matter, to Paul O’Flaherty who thinks Google is reacting out of fear and then to the typical...
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A few requests for my blogging tools
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on February 05, 2008
I don’t think that isn’t a blogger around that doesn’t have their favorite set of software tools that they use daily basis and would probably be totally lost if they were to one day disappear. I am no different as I have a few programs that I use all the time and for the most part I am more than happy with them.You’ll notice that I said for the most part because like everything else in...
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Yahoo you deserve to be bought out
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on February 06, 2008
I was never a willing Yahoo user before and I can tell you that if recent events with trying to use my MyBlogLog account are any indication I never will be a Yahoo customer. In fact I hope you get your ass bought out from under you because even Microsoft couldn’t possibly fubar stuff up the way you have.I will give credit to Ian Kennedy at MyBlogLog for at least trying to straighten out a...
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Google Apps provide a false sense of security
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on February 07, 2008
... practices is and how companies are having to react to this latest attempt by the US government to monitor our every move and action. Instead he uses an ambiguous quote from the Washington Post article to give a flyby endorsement for using Google Apps for all you business needs.All I can say is that Mr. Torkington is being short sighted in his enthusiastic endorsement of web applications that in ...
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Disruptive doesn’t always mean smarter or safer
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on February 08, 2008
Everyone just love to toss around the word disruptive these days as if it is the all fixing panacea for our software woes and nowhere more is is being used than in conjunction of another buzz phrase cloud computing. The combination of the two is creating a pie in the sky attitude that by relying totally on applications accessed via the internet we are traveling down the road of progress and that...
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Have we lost the essence of what reading really is?
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on February 09, 2008
There has been a growing debate over whether books have become passe in our modern day and age of e-books, web sites and blogs. News and information is either a click away or and RSS feed delivering a constant flow of new stuff to digest. His Jobness brought the discussion into even clearer focus with his quip about the percentage of people who even pick up a book these days to read rather than...
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Cross Knowledge - the added value of a blog
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on February 19, 2008
I always look forward to posts by Tony Hung over on his blog Deep Jive Interests even though there are dry periods when his real life profession requires his total concentration. Maybe it is those dry periods that make see fresh posts by him a high point when I see them show up in my reader; but that what I do know is that when Tony does post something it is going to be interesting to read and...
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