Well, whatever wayward process (be it Google’s or SuccessfulHosting’s) that allowed Google to write files to my domain as the ‘root’ user has been corrected, thanks to some timely support by the folks at SH. Unfortunately, since Blogger doesn’t have…

Techdirt:Japanese Newspaper Says No To Google News Techdirt’s got a post, “from the short-term-stupidity dept.”, about a Japanese newspaper publishing co blocking Google from displaying their content in Google News (i.e., not allowing deep linking). Mike goes on to say:…

Ah, it’s nice (in a “it’s not really nice” kinda way) to see that scale has finally brought many of the challenges we faced at PointCast back in ’96-’97 to the RSS aggregator world. For a while there, it seemed…

Well folks, I apologize for my appearant blogging lethargy… but all is not always as it appears. I’ve unfortunately been battling with Blogger for the last couple of weeks. After successfully moving my blog from the BlogSpot domain to my…

John Battelle’s Searchblog: Skrenta: Intent or Content? Battelle (and his commentors) discuss how “…all the majors punted on the presentweb – the fresh stuff that’s being discussed *right now* via blogs, feeds, and pings…” Let’s be honest here… if you…

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Home Page Been a long while since I’ve blogged. My personal reality hasn’t been all that good as of late, some circumstantial, some my own doing. It was with that mindset that Diana and I chose to…

BBC NEWS | Business | Potential hitch for Google float Does failing to register options/shares that you granted to investors and employees, then offering to buy them back at pennies on the dollar, qualify as DOING NO EVIL?! How is…

Susan Mernit’s Blog My friend Susan Mernit, whom I respect, expressed her perspective on what it would take for online advertising to eclipse magazine advertising. Unfortunately, her argument is based on two key points: 1) demographic data is necessary for…

Blogger crashed (losing all of the changes to the template format) while trying to republish ~600 blog posts to our domain. I’ve restored much of the template changes, but there’s still some tweaking to be done. Fortunately, that won’t stop…

As I get serious about taking some time to pursue a few consulting engagements, I’ve put some effort into reworking my site (www.buzzhit.com), and have decided to move my blog to my domain (which I probably should have done soon…