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Category Archives: Commentary
(Short Term) Exclusive Phone Agreements Are NOT Anticompetitive
I’m breaking internet geek rules by making the statement above. But hear me out and I’ll explain why I think Fred Wilson is wrong on some things but gets a few things right. To begin with, exclusive phone agreements are … Continue reading
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Tagged at&t, iphone
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Can You Be a Thought Leader Without a Blog?
First off look at blogging for what it is, at it’s deepest core, it’s writing. It’s conveying ideas using words. Before the internet this was done on paper, before that stone. People who have been thinkers always wrote down their thoughts and captured them using whatever medium was available to them at the time. In some cases that was just telling a person, who then told another person, who then to..you get the idea. Continue reading
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State of Wireless in Linux Distros
There in lies the problem. Wireless is now an important part of computing. While my main concern is my desktop, none of the CDs I tried had my wireless working without major hoops on my work provided laptop either (Dell Latitude D830). And wireless is pretty much standard on laptops these days. Wireless has to work and it has to be painless. Continue reading
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Tagged debian, fedora, Linux, wireless
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Will Crowdsourcing News Online Kill The Newspapers?
So if I can subscribe to the RSS feeds of these aggregaters main pages, I can essentially only see news items that a large number of people deem important. I’ve cut out the newspaper, CNN, BBC, almost completely (one would assume that links to these things would pop up on these aggregaters). This means that I get real news and avoid the fluff. Continue reading
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Why I Uninstalled TweetDeck From My iPhone
Last night after trying to use it for an entire day, I uninstalled TweetDeck from my iPhone. The app, in case you haven’t used it yet, is gorgeous. It is incredibly simple to use while retaining much of the power that can be found in the desktop version of TweetDeck, most specifically tabs. But it had it’s share of problems. Continue reading
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Tagged iphone, tweetdeck, tweetie, Twitter
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Michael Koby 
Gun Control – Lets Get Something Straight
There was big news today about the Senate voting against the right of concealed weapon license holders being able to carry their weapon across states (essentially turning a CHL into something resembling a driver’s license, in that a license granted in a single state is considered valid in another). While I’m not going to argue the right/wrong of the issue’s outcome, I wanted to point out something that really eerked me in a LA Times article on the subject (article here). Continue reading →