Technology

Here’s a pairing I really had never considered: WaPo and Suge. A transcript of a live chat from this last Monday between the founder of Death Row Records and randoms off the internet. My favorite snip: Rockville, Md.: Suge, From many of your employees, it sounds like you are a great and generous guy to…

Here’s an excellent example of the book industry staying relevant in a Web 2.0 world– Random House Insight Web Service. Amazon and Google have been eating publisher’s lunch with their Inside the Book and book search services. Instead of whining, Random House is putting out really well-designed widgets of their own that provide another way…

On Wednesday, August 8, I will be doing a webinar for intranet / corporate communication gurus Ragan Communications. Topic: Ten Web 2.0 Ideas You Can Implement Today to Keep Your Intranet Fresh. Some of the ideas: How to mine photo sharing sites like Flickr for free, relevant images for your intranet How to use simple…

Here’s a good take on why MySpace works. The same thing applies to all the other emerging stand-alone tools mentioned below. O’Reilly Radar > “remove the web developer and the web gets developed” In short, it seems that while many people thought of “blogging” as a thing that was understood and more or less set,…

The idea of sending microdonations to the Red Cross in times of disaster is a great idea. If you want to donate $5, along you have to do is send a text message to 24357 and it happens automatically. “Consumer group” Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights has a problem with it because it doesn’t…