Archive for the 'software politics' Category

Bloggers Other Cheek

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Bill O’Reilly today is bragging that he forced John Edwards to fire two bloggers who said bad things about Christians.  The other reporters say that the bloggers resigned on their own, but O’Reilly seems intent on proving that he’s a powerful man and not to be messed with.  Apparently the notoriously lecherous and sexist O’Reilly has now coronated himself […]

Intel Chip Fab: Goodbye Silicon Dioxide

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Let’s give this video some link love.  I liked the Bad Sinatra video better, but this is newsworthy.
Valleywag got the details wrong, twisted and distorted the truth.  Why is everyone still hating on Scoble?  70 interviews with CEOs in 6 months.  That’s incredible.  It’s like a crash course in Silicon Valley business.  Valleywag should partner with Podtech.

Brier Still Doesn’t

Friday, December 1st, 2006

When everyone beat me up for speaking the truth about pretexting, I argued that “it wasn’t clearly illegal when Dunn did it”.  I was, like many others, assuming that the hasty California law passage would take hold.
Who would have thought?  The law flopped.  It’s still not clearly illegal.
OK, we know that Brier doesn’t pretext, and neither […]

Yahoo! Peanut Butter?

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

Everyone is chattering about the Yahoo! Peanut Butter Manifesto.  Every BigCo has problems of overlap, lack of accountability, and people who think those problems are worse or better than they really are.
In this case, though, I’m a bit confused by the memo.  Everyone knows that Flickr and Delicious are tiny compared to the competing Yahoo! properties.  […]

Due Credit

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Don Park, you should know better!  Don comments on the “Add Live Search to Your Site” announce, saying “better late than never”, and “nice reactive move”.  Does he really think that we saw Google’s announce, and then real quick-like, implemented the feature and shipped it in response?
The fact is, both we and Google were working […]