Alaska, Ho!

We’re finally aboard the Holland America cruise liner! Yes, right now – on a wireless Internet connection. Thanks again to Pluggd for providing the ability for us to get online and post updates. I’ve only been aboard for a couple of hours, but… I’m beyond impressed. Our room is absolutely amazing – and we’ll be [...]

The SEO Industry is Full of Snakes

Steve Gillmor and Marc Canter at Gnomedex 6

Steve Gillmor, Dave Winer and Marc Canter have been affectionately referred to as the Crazy Uncles of the Blogosphere. Here we get two-thirds of the uncle triad, first with Steve Gillmor talking to Alex Williams at Gnomedex about the label. Next Marc Canter talks about being communist and how software is the tool for his [...]

Our Alaska Cruise Schedule

As noted in my cruise ship report, we have a general schedule for our Holland America [ms Oosterdam] cruise: Sat: Arrive at terminal at 1:00pm Sat: Depart from terminal at 4:00pm Sun: At sea all day Mon: Juneau from 11:00am to 9:00pm Tue: Hubbard Glacier from 12:00pm to 5:00pm Wed: Sitka from 7:00am to 6:00pm [...]

Ryan Wood on UFO Crashes and The Majestic Documents

Ryan Wood got interested in UFOs growing up with a father who worked for Lockheed. As an adult, he’s compiled many hours of research, digging into leaked government documents and presumed leaked documents to verify or invalidate their authenticity. Along the way, he’s researched data on dozens of UFO crashes through some 3500 pages of [...]

Social Bookmarking Button Madness

Okay, I understand the need to make it easier for your visitors to bookmark sites on their favorite Web service(s), but enough is enough. I keep finding Digg and del.icio.us icons on sites and pages where they just… don’t… belong! Seriously, Answers.com has deployed a set on every single page. Yeah, because Answers.com answers are [...]

Mark Vena of Alienware on the PC Landscape

Alienware is arguably the sexiest computer manufacturer in the greater OEM space. With their recent acquisition by Dell, it remains to be seen whether they retain their edge, but so far the new machines continue to instill excitement. Mark Vena, VP of Marketing for Alienware, talks with Chris about the computer industry, the Dell acquisition, [...]

Corey Dennis of IODA, Dermot Waters of CNN and Werner Vogels of Amazon at Gnomedex 6

Corey Denis of IODA talks about independent music, promoting songs through podcasts and the Promonet service. Dermot Waters of CNN talks about having his dog on the CNN website. Werner Vogels of Amazon talks about what he likes and doesn’t about conferences, specifically the open space approach to conferences. Alex Williams helps facilitate the conversation.

Hacking Netflix, Intel and Melodeo at Gnomedex 6

If you’re a movie junkie, you probably can’t live without your Netflix account. There’s one guy who knows Netflix better than anyone – Mike Kaltschnee of Hacking Netflix talks with Alex Williams at Gnomedex 6. Alex follows with a conversation about Intel. And this Gnomedex segment closes with Bill Valenti of Melodeo talking about the [...]

Tara Hunt, Kris Krug and Mike Arrington at Gnomedex 6

A collection of three interviews by Alex Williams of Podcast Hotel from Gnomedex 6. This collection starts out in a conversation with Tara Hunt of Citizen Agency. The second conversation is with Kris Krug, talking about what made him decide to undress on The Great Wall. The final interview in this group is with Mike [...]

Outlook Evolution

Evolution finally runs on Windows! Looks like they released something a few months ago, although it just hit my radar this afternoon (in an email from Matt Hartley). “Evolution is an incredibly versatile email / calendar / PIM that took the Linux world by storm a few years ago.” I’m excited that there’s been some [...]

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud – EC2

Don’t ask me what I’m doing up at 3am – but I’ve gotta tell you about an email I just received from AWS (Amazon Web Services). The message didn’t say that I was under embargo, so… This is a short note to let you know about a limited beta of our newest web service: Amazon [...]

John Mark Karr Eats Candy!

Ponzi’s returned from her hiatus, it seems – aided by a desktop publishing tool (no, not Windows Live Writer – which I believe is still at the “barely noteworthy” stage). She’s really upset about this whole John Mark Karr situation – not because of what he may have done, but because of the way the [...]

The Politics of Security

Online Security is important. Flickr users in China, Iran, and Iraq feel the same way I do – though Microsoft employees in Lebanon and Israel don’t (since they’re all on the Mac). An Online Search for the keyword yeilds few results, so perhaps we’re in need of more Education – or more Firefox Advertising from [...]