Awakened Voice

I was initially very happy to see that Micah Sifry of TechPresident.com chose to stand strong in the face of a challenge from Mike Arrington and TechCrunch. I’ll try to make a long story short here.
A few days ago the gang over at TechCrunch launched their Tech President Primaries. I got wind of this [...]

It is my observation that the tech community in the United States likes to think of itself as much more influential than they really are. Tech is a cog in the system but its not the whole system. That’s why I don’t give generally too much credence to causes that petition for a so called [...]

This has been an interesting week for the social web. There’s always lots of news to pick through but this week there were three items that I feel are quite telling as far as where we stand vis-a-vis ventures that aim to capitalize on the social web.
Facebook Is Not All Powerful
The controversy over privacy with [...]

File this one under annoyances that need to go away now!
There’s a service out there called Snap that I despise with a passion. Snap enabled websites have links that display a preview image with a search box when you mouse over an item. These preview images are utterly useless and can actually be damaging to [...]

This post will surely elicit some controversy as it dives into the social media hornets nest known as statistics.
I started thinking about stats again after seeing that the FeedBurner stats for TechCrunch indicated that blog eclipsing 100K readers. Interestingly enough that number has dipped to around 87K as I write this post.
First off, I want [...]