How to Use Google Wiki

Nov 27, 2008 | One Comment

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed When you need to find something, you likely Google it. I’m sure you probably have a Google account. If you’re logged in to it and search for just about anything, you may have noticed new icons in your search results. Google [...]

Google’s Knol is Knowledge

Jul 23, 2008 | 3 Comments

Google unleashed Knol today, which is essentially aiming to be collection of authoritative articles written with attribution. Knowledge is certainly everywhere these days, but I believe Google is trying to add wisdom to the equation – doing it somewhat differently than the competition. Just about anybody and everybody is welcome to contribute, and even if [...]

Shopping Wiki from Overstock.com

Feb 6, 2007 | One Comment

Via Judd Bagley from Overstock.com: As you may know, I’ve spent the past few months as director of social media at Overstock.com creating something we’re calling Omuse, which is an open environment for people with similar interests to find one another and jointly “write the book” on the activities that most inspire them. We’ve just [...]

Stephen Colbert is a Media Hero

Aug 2, 2006 | 9 Comments

I love social hacking. I tried pulling it off on a smaller scale at Gnomedex (TechMeme Hacked). It’s taken me a while to get into the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, but I have to admit that his latest move has made me a fan. Check it out, as reported by Corey Spring on Newsvine: [...]

Vista ReadyBoost

May 24, 2006 | 31 Comments

So, one of the nifty new features of Windows Vista is ReadyBoost – a feature that enables you to plug in a USB 2.0 Thumb Drive and have it show up as physical memory in your system. I wanted to give this a shot, so I rushed out and picked up the highest capacity USB [...]

Unperfectly Cromulent

Oct 28, 2005 | 8 Comments

Nobody wants to be told that their baby is ugly, especially when it takes a village to raise that child. Xeni reported the cold, hard truth about Wikipedia, and hardcore Wikipedians probably didn’t want to hear none of that. I’d need more fingers and toes to count up how many outrageous errors I’ve found on [...]