During all this Telus stuff, he seemed to be so calm, so level-headed, so sensible… But Derek has gone irretrievably to the dark side with his endorsement of the serial comma:

Unless you have a specific reason for a particular, single usage in an individual place in a document‚Äîone which you can justify logically in writing to picky editors like me‚Äîuse the serial comma (“pens, pencils, and erasers”… Read more...

blog remora, n., blahg reh-MOH-rah: One who attempts to increase the popularity of her or his own blog, or avoid the labour of blogging, by quoting the comments of more established bloggers.

e.g. – “Heyz, everyone. I’m kinda hung over after last night’s MeetUp, so if nobody minds, I’ll just be a blog remora today. OK – Scoble has something interesting to say…”

e.g. 2 – “Technorati shows… Read more...

From the Canadian Press, Top court refuses to hear appeal on MP3 players

The fight over a levy on iPods and other digital music players ended today when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear any further arguments on the matter.

That means there will be no levy applied to digital audio recorders such as Apple’s popular iPod and iPod Shuffle as well as other MP3… Read more...

Alex King, one of the premier plug-in developers for WordPress (the blogging software that runs this here corner of the Web), is getting pretty frustrated.

Every time he releases a piece of software, all of it free of charge, he’s deluged by support requests — often questions that could be answered if the users had just read the documentation that goes along with his code (a phenomenon… Read more...

Continuing the saga of the blocked web sites, Telus wrote to Derek Miller, and he has in turn replied, asking four superb and pointed questions:

Can you tell me:

(a) Whether you have contacted the website operator to see if the material you object to can be removed, if you consider it illegal?

(b) If that has not worked, whether you have contacted the hosting provider… Read more...

Since we’re on a revenge theme today, let’s take a quick look at consumers who are using blogs to take a swipe at companies what done them wrong.

The Hobson and Holtz Report has spent the past week discussing two bloggers who are taking on companies that have sold them lemons: one a computer, the other a car.

Disgruntled Land Rover customer Adrian Melrose has taken… Read more...

BBC News: New name for ‘war on terror’

Confidential focus group report
To: Karl Rove
Re.: Rebranding exercise

Note to Karl: This thing actually is confidential, okay? It’s not like the identity of a CIA operative; this is serious business here.

Focus group conducted
Tuesday, 26 July, 2005
Anytown U.S.A.

7:00 p.m. – Group assembles. Moderator distributes little sandwiches. Some grumbling from group, moderator… Read more...

They say living well is the best revenge. Others say the hell with that: revenge is the best revenge. A little software company may be about to prove both points of view right.

A lot of Mac users have a warm place in their hearts for Konfabulator, a program that allows you to run much smaller programs called widgets.

Widgets can do handy things like display a… Read more...