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#Spymaster: Tips for the Twitter Game

“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.” – Auric Goldfinger

image Chances are, if you’re on Twitter this evening, you just…

May 29 2009

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It’s Not About Best Practices, It’s About the Constitution [Blogola]

image After my post over at SiliconANGLE, I’m glad to see what I hope represents a softening position at Forrester regarding the new proposed FTC guidelines on blogging and disclosure…

May 28 2009

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Cost to Fence the US-Mexico Border? $11.8 Billion.

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Pictures are finally filing in from this vaunted fence that’s supposed to magically protect us from the evil Mexicans south of the border. The one above I found over at Zimbio. Part…

May 20 2009

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..in which I beat up on Silicon Alley Insider

image How hard it is to RTFA?

There are some folks over at Business Insider (recently rebranded from “Silicon Alley Insider”) that do some decent reporting. Nicholas Carlson was always…

May 19 2009

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Present.io Goes Live

image The presentation and live collaboration utility Present.io goes live this morning – and I must admit I’m pretty duly impressed.

The program works with the feature set common to most…

May 15 2009

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Texas Coworking Space Roundup

John Erik Metcalf on the podcast.

Coworking spaces are a mostly recent Texas trend I picked up on last summer during the SummerMash tour stop I attended in Austin. I got the…

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Hulu: Content Checks In, But it Don’t Check Out

image Earlier this week, MG Siegler over at Techcrunch took note of the fact that Hulu has gotten more anal than ever about geo-retarding their content, even going so far as to block access…

May 8 2009

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RSS Being Dead Makes as Much Sense as Steve Gillmor

“Apparently Rizzn hasn’t mastered the technology of escaping his ass.”  – Steve Gillmor

image Despite the fact that Steve Gillmor, host of the Gillmor Gang podcast on the TWiT network,…

May 7 2009

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Daisy Whitney Joins Beet.TV (and SiliconANGLE)

image It’s amazing how fast things work in today’s always on world.  I just happened to catch a tweet earlier today regarding TVWeek going to an online-only publication, and Daisy Whitney,…

May 6 2009

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The Cynical Bastards: No One is Safe [podcast]

image Last night, Sean, Steven and I recorded the inaugural episode of the Cynical Bastards show we call CobWEBS (i.e. Cranky Old Bastards on the InterWEBS).

The show is for our new…

May 1 2009

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Yowza: One ‘Heroes’ Star’s Answer to Coupon Clipping [GBTV]

I don’t tend to do a lot of iPhone app reviews, but local Dallas-ite Cali Lewis got a chance to sit down with Greg Grunberg, aka “not-baby Matt Parkman,” one of the stars of Heroes (a show I still…

Apr 24 2009

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NAB Attendees Excited about mDTV and Attendance

Chronicler of all things New Media and online video Daisy Whitney attended this year’s NAB conference, and reported on her general impressions of the event. In light of the prevailing opinion that…

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SearchMe Rolls Out New Features at Ad:Tech SF 2009

image My friends John Furrier and Nate D’amico from SiliconANGLE have been roaming the halls of Ad:Tech 2009, and one of the more interesting updates has been when Furrier caught up with…

Apr 23 2009

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Can I Be a Career Content Producer?

image A lot of people are thinking about blogging today, and more specifically, blogging as a business. It’s not surprising that this is a topic gaining grassroots traction, given the fact…

Apr 22 2009

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Pirate Bay Shut Down!

Update: The Pirate Bay as a website is not shut down, and I realize now my headline is a bit misleading – the individuals have been shut down and ruled against in court, which…

Apr 18 2009

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