From the monthly archives:

November 2005

Georgie Best, Superstar

November 25, 2005

George Best, former Manchester United and Northern Ireland footballer, has died at the far too early age of 59. I can understand the points of people who criticise Best for what happened in his later life. Like all of us, he wasn’t perfect – not a saint, not a martyr. He made plenty of mistakes [...]

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Computer frenzy

November 20, 2005

Today has been spent in a frenzy of computer buying, updating and installing, after myself and Kim went on a casual trip into John Lewis’ on Oxford Street only to walk out, a couple of thousand pounds lighter, with a Sony Vaio S5XP for me and some enormous desktop media centre-type machine for her. The [...]

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The Audible issue

November 14, 2005

Only someone with a position in academia could possibly be as cantankerous about people offering ways to make money as Dave Winer. Winer is dead-set against Audible’s attempt to provide a way for podcasters to make money directly from their work, which is fair enough given that (1) he has idealogical “issues” over this, and [...]

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Apple forces iPodder name change

November 13, 2005

Scoble links to a posting about how iPodder was forced to change its name to Juice Receiver, thanks to the attentions of Apple’s legal department.

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Jason Calacanis blows his top

November 4, 2005

In a post on his personal blog, Weblogs, Inc. founder and CEO Jason Calacanis points the finger at Creative-Weblogging, accusing it of “stealing our HTML code and design”, being “slime buckets”, and advising their investors that they’re “investing in a bunch of worthless lies and cheats. Whatever money you gave them is probably embezzled right [...]

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Nicholas Carr on MS Live

November 2, 2005

Nicholas Carr makes a very valid point about software-as-web-service: There’s a real rush right now to give software away and make money from advertising. The strategy is built on aggressive projections for on-line ad revenues as far as the eye can see. What nobody’s talking about is the fact that advertising is a very cyclical [...]

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