Monthly Archives: March 2007

Bad behavior in the blogosphere

Posted on March 30, 2007 by

Great piece in the SF chronicle today by Dan Fost about the recent firestorm related to vitriolic comments against Kathy Sierra (BTW she is great and I love her blog). The threats against Kathy Sierra, an author who promotes the … Continue reading →

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Who Owns Your Image on the Internet?

Posted on March 28, 2007 by

Recently heard aprogram on NPR, called the talk of the nation, about people who have had to deal with internet stardom/notoriety because of starring in a popular YouTube videos. Its an interesting program that highlights what happens when users really … Continue reading →

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5 ways to get more comments on your blog

Posted on March 23, 2007 by

Fascinating survey post at the Freakonomics blog (Thanks Indus for pointing it out) asking users why do or why don’t they comment. (I love these guys not just because of the book or because they write intelligent/insightful stuff but also … Continue reading →

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Nasty Discourse or Incentives

Posted on March 21, 2007 by

Fascinating article on MSNBC.com today, related to the decline in public discourse because of the web. When a California woman recently gave birth to a healthy baby just two days after learning she was pregnant, the sudden change to her … Continue reading →

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How to build a $50M online company?

Posted on March 18, 2007 by

Updated revision is also available at RWW Interesting post over the weekend by Dan Mitchell at the NYT. He took the cue from Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed, who pointed out a few weeks ago the scale a business has to … Continue reading →

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A-List Bloggers Vs Blue Collor Blogger

Posted on March 17, 2007 by

There an interesting argument going on in the blogosphere. Its captured nicely in the exchange between Tony Huang (deep Jive Interest) and Jason Calacanis: Blogging is damn hard work, and harder still when you have kids to feed and are … Continue reading →

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Digital Love

Posted on March 13, 2007 by

Recently, I heard this fascinating youth radio program about how MySpace is changing the way kids interact/hook up with each other. It also discusses how kids deal with like commercial characters like Jack (of Jack in the box), who have … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Vs Open Source Community

Posted on March 11, 2007 by

There was a great piece on CNet news.com about Higgins project waiting Microsoft’s approval for creating a Windows CardSpace’s open-source equivalent: Higgins awaits Microsoft’s blessing An open-source rival to a Microsoft identity tool has been in limbo for months, awaiting … Continue reading →

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Improving Online Communities

Posted on March 9, 2007 by

An online community, or for that matter any community, is built upon shared experiences of its participants. In the real world, people in a community typically interact with each other by gathering at same physical location, at the same time. … Continue reading →

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Patent reform: Use social networking

Posted on March 5, 2007 by

First USAToday and now the US Patent office…It looks everybody is trying to leverage social networking to improve the services they deliver. In the case of US Patent office, following are the details: The Patent and Trademark Office is starting … Continue reading →

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