My sister texts endlessly.  She’s eighteen.  Every second she’s popping out her phone and sending some message about something on her mind, her every thought.  Most of them are not groundbreaking, of course.  I’m sure they are extremely meaningful to her, since she took the time to send the message. I guess the interest of [...]

That first place you go is the most important place.  When you open your browser, your home page opens.  Sadly, many people still do not know how to change their home page and it opens to (curses!) AOL.  For those of us who matured, and chose another home page, it once was a competitive battle [...]

I appeal to all technology companies and services in the cloud: stop with the crazy naming. Why must we insist on giving services misspelled names? You are not doing your services or your brand much of a service by dropping the vowels in your name (flickr) or using tricky spelling (delicio.us).  I have no problem [...]

The new WordPress 2.7 looks different and allows much more customization.  I’m impressed.  There was something clunky about the last version, though it was perfectly useful.  This new version seems to offer much more functionality, including the ability to deny comments whatsoever.  I want to post and offer my thoughts on topics, but I really [...]

Official Google Reader Blog: Square is the new round. Google Reader is one of the Web 2.0 tools that I still use regularly since summer, and they recently updated its look.  They made it cleaner and more simplistic.  This is only a few weeks after Google added themes to GMail.  It makes me wonder why [...]