I rant, Tony rants, Alan ranted. With surprisingly similar space-time coordinates. Our love of Facebook is duly recanted. We’re no longer Zuckerberg’s subordinates.
July 30, 2007 | Randomness, Rants, Tech News, Technology | No comments
Douglas MacArthur – “We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.”
July 30, 2007 | Startups | No comments
My bro (in the literal sense) Nick is on the home page of Reddit this morning with an article about the chopper crash yesterday. As always, it’s all in the headline: Can you Believe they are Charging the Fugitive Driver for the Deaths in the Press Chopper Crash? Writing headlines of pure genius like this […]
July 28, 2007 | Marketing | No comments
Once upon a time I was a Facebook addict. It was an awesome way to reach out to people I haven’t been in contact with for years, share photos, update your status 80 times a day, etc. But Facebook apps are getting a little out of hand… …and I’ve always hated that friend detail feature. […]
July 28, 2007 | Tech News | No comments
In my recent podcast we chatted about Linkbait. Linkbait is simply the act of writing a headline for a blog entry or page that will generate a very high click rate and then publicizing that page. If you’re not sure how to write great headlines, start with this page of 10 Sure-Fire headline formulas that […]
July 26, 2007 | SEO | No comments
I just updated my email address on Yahoo and got this: WTF?
July 26, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
A quick article about how to record a remote interview and how to fix the audio levels after the interview. I got a few questions about the equipment I used to record the podcast interview with Tony yesterday. I recorded it remotely using Skype – Tony was in West Seattle and I’m in Sammamish. We […]
July 26, 2007 | Technology | No comments
This is a followup post to “Think you work hard? Think again.” which generated over 5,000 pageviews in a short time and almost took down my blog server this morning. It’s an audio interview with Tony Wright, the founder and CEO of RescueTime.com. The interview runs for just over 17 Mins. Click here to listen […]
July 25, 2007 | Startup Hacks | No comments
I logged onto my blog this morning and it wouldn’t load. I tried to ping the server and it was still up. Then I tried ssh’ing into the server and it connected. I hit reload again in my browser and starting mumbling WTF. Then I ran ‘uptime’ on the server and got something like this: […]
July 25, 2007 | Technology | No comments
I just got back from the Naked Truth panel and party in Seattle. It was loads of fun. I met John Cook for the first time in the flesh – he’s interviewed me about 3 times and we’ve never actually met. Also met Michael Arrington briefly. The panel was so-so. I think the general consensus […]