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    Clive Thompson returns to blogging started by mathewi
    I’m not sure how many people noticed, but Clive Thompson — one of my favourite technology and science writers — returned to blogging this week. Clive writes regularly for the New York Times magazine, and his most recent piece was an excellent look at Twitter a
    Andrew Baron vs. Jason Calacanis started by mathewi
    Even if you don’t spend a lot of time on FriendFeed, it becomes apparent after not too long that Andrew Baron — the co-founder of Rocketboom, the pioneering video-blog starring Joanne Colan (and formerly starring Amanda Congdon) — has a real hate on for Ja
    Blogs, PayPerPost and new media started by mathewi
    Tony Hung has a great post over at Deep Jive Interests looking at the new media landscape, jumping off from the flame war going on between Stowe Boyd and Andrew Keen. I would summarize it, but why not just go over there and read the whole thing.
    clipped from www.deepjiveinterests.com
    When base-jumping goes wrong started by mathewi
    This video more or less speaks for itself. Base jumper Hans Lange jumped off a mountain in Norway in a specially-designed winged suit, but towards the end of the freefall his parachute failed to open and he plunged down the mountain towards the rocks and lake below, until a tree broke his fall.
    Wordpress pays homage to Twitter started by mathewi
    A Twitter post (fittingly enough) caught my eye and sent me to a Wordpress post in which newly-enriched founder Matt Mullenweg announced a Twitter-style group blog theme for Wordpress called Prologue. Although I’m sure some will see this as Automattic going after Twitter, I see it
    Comments more like slander than libel started by mathewi
    Shane Richmond at the Telegraph has news of an interesting ruling from a British High Court judge, in a case that involved allegedly defamatory comments posted to an online discussion group about investing. In his decision, Mr. Justice Eady said that even though some of the comments on the inves
    How many searches has Google done? started by mathewi
    Google’s birthday is coming up — although it’s not clear exactly which one, or when it will actually occur, for a whole pile of reasons — and it occurred to me that the company must have done an awful lot of searches by now. After all, the most r
    Jim Clark: In a hot tub in Italy somewhere started by mathewi
    Marc Andreessen, the guy who designed the very first Web browser, co-founded Netscape and helped take it public and now runs Ning, showed up for an interview at the Churchill Club, where he talked to Kevin Maney from Portfolio magazine about a number of things, including Google’%3
    Joost to euthanize desktop client started by mathewi
    My friend Om Malik says that he has it on good authority that Joost — the much-hyped P2P online video startup run by the founders of Skype and Kazaa — is planning to kill its desktop client. This news was likely met in many quarters by a resounding cry of “What to
    Inside R.E.M.’s Web strategy started by mathewi
    There’s a great series of guest posts over at Hypebot by my friend — and mesh 2008 keynote interview subject — Ethan Kaplan, the vice-president of technology at Warner Brothers Records, who provides a detailed breakdown of the online strategy behind the releas
    Disqus: Blog comments just got better started by mathewi
    I’m late on this news, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention today’s update to the Disqus hosted-comment service, which I’ve been using on this blog for some time now. As I’ve said before, I think Disqus is one of the best comment
    Virtual newspaper has 6.7 million readers started by mathewi
    From the Los Angeles Times (via a post at Wired) comes the news that a little-known “newspaper” called the Club Penguin Times apparently has almost 7 million subscribers, many of whom read the paper at least once a week. And where is this newspaper published? Inside C
    Google’s Chrome is great, but… started by mathewi
    If you’re looking for more than the typical “Chrome is great” response to Google’s new browser, here are some of the ones I’ve come across that I think make good points and/or go into some depth. For whatever it’s worth, I
    Delicious 2.0: Who bookmarks any more? started by mathewi
    When I saw the news about the launch of Delicious 2.0, I can’t say I felt a huge wave of joy, despite the fact that I am what most people would probably consider a hard-core Delicious user, with about 10,000 webpages saved since I started using it. But not only didn’t
    How many does registration keep out? started by mathewi
    (cross-posted from my media blog)

    The answer is inherently unknowable, of course, but my friend Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 had a great post recently about the ROI (return on investment) of registration systems — something he only thought of when he got prompte
    Chrome may be great, but will it matter? started by mathewi
    As I said in my post yesterday about Google’s new Chrome browser (and as a number of others have also noted, including Kara Swisher and Mike Arrington) Google’s real target isn’t Microsoft’s Internet Exploder, or even Mozilla’s Fire
    Chrome: Do we need a Google browser? started by mathewi
    The reliably excellent Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped has what appears to be pretty solid confirmation of a Google browser — known currently as Chrome — that is apparently in development at the Web behemoth. Phil got an email that included a comic from Scott McCloud,
    Hey kids, let’s drive into the hurricane! started by mathewi
    I’m really hoping this is some kind of sick joke, but it looks to be a video of a couple and their three young sons, who have apparently driven their car straight into the path of Hurricane Gustav. What’s next for the Heene family — exploring a bomb-testing ar
    The Internet rewards the charitable and punishes the greedy started by mathewi
    Nicholas “The Voice of Doom” Carr has another one of his periodic columns about how the Internet is ruining everything, and in it he manages to somehow yoke together the evils of GPS navigation systems (because they send people through small villages, apparently) and
    Psystar wants to force Apple to open up started by mathewi
    According to an article in Information Week, the Apple clone-maker known as Psystar Systems is counter-suing Apple, claiming that the computer company uses illegal tactics to protect its market share in personal computers, including anti-competitive measures that are prohibited by the Sherman
    Omnidrive sinks beneath the waves started by mathewi
    According to Josh Catone over at Read/Write Web, the “cloud storage” company formerly known as Omnidrive is no more. The domain now goes to a hosting provider’s standard “parked page” message, and users who have commented at RWW say t
    Has OmniDrive joined the deadpool? started by mathewi
    One of a number of cheap online storage services — a group that includes Carbonite, Mozy and JungleDisk (which uses Amazon’s S3 storage system) — Omnidrive.com appears to be having significant problems, and according to some reports may be heading for the
    Anderson: Would you like to play a game? started by mathewi
    I’m with Mike Arrington on this one: I think the news that Tom Anderson was a teenaged “War Games” hacker is pretty darn cool. According to old news stories that TechCrunch came across, as well as reports from a source close to the MySpace co-founder, he was
    Freshbooks: 7 Ways It Almost Died started by mathewi
    I’m a little late on this one because I’m on vacation this week, and my blogging and Twittering metabolism has slowed down, but I wanted to take note of a great post that my friend and fellow mesh organizer Mike McDerment wrote the other day, entitled “7 way
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