by Rob Cottingham | Apr 20, 2006 | Blogging, Communicating
You didn’t have to look too far on April 1st to find examples of web sites playing practical jokes on their readers. And you didn’t have to look much farther to find examples of readers who were getting mighty tired of the practical jokes. 2006 may go down... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 18, 2006 | Blogging
Firefox just automatically detected a new version 1.2 of Performancing, the Firefox extension that gives you a word-processor-like interface for writing blog posts. Funny thing is, even the Performancing web site is still listing the current version as 1.1.1. Which... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 18, 2006 | Blogging
A few days ago, a visitor left a pitch for a new, anonymous blog as a comment on one of my posts. Here’s what ticked me off: It had exactly nothing to do with the post. It’s already been left word for word on at least one other blog (on an equally... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 9, 2006 | Blogging, Media Mix, Technology
Yes, according to the New York Times: [N]ews organizations large and small have begun experimenting with tweaking their Web sites for better search engine results. But software bots are not your ordinary readers: They are blazingly fast yet numbingly literal-minded.... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 8, 2006 | Technology
by Rob Cottingham | Apr 6, 2006 | Technology, Vancouver
Via Arieanna, the news came yesterday that Qumana – the blog editing software developed by Vancouver-based Qumana Software – will be distributed and co-branded by Lycos. Our little neck of the woods is increasingly an epicentre for the great distributed earthquake...