Here I sit blogging in my hotel room at the Renaissance in Austin, Texas before a full day of search and social marketing brain dump at Pubcon South. Immediately after that is SXSWi for a few days. A few days after that it’s NYC for a PRSA thing followed by SES New York.  I speak at 15 plus e...

[CrunchGear] OMG, Apple will burn in hell over latest iPod Shuffle Overzealous watchmaker vandalized Lincoln’s watch in 1861 A modest proposal: Radio DJs should ....

Younger, Cell Phone-Only Households Listen to Lots More Radio: Nielsen Media Buyer Planner, MD“The findings from the Nielsen pilot underscore the urgent need to include cell-phone-only homes in radio ratings.â€� Clear Channel president and CEO John Hogan made a dig at Arbitron, Nielsen’s co...

In these days of economic distress, it’s nice when technology companies add innovative features to the products at the bottom of their price ranges. So it’s notable that Apple’s cheapest iPod, the oft-forgotten Shuffle model, is getting smarter. In fact, the latest iPod Shuffle, an...

Cool: That it is small. That Apple’s speech synthesis now does a passable Swedish voice. Not so very: That you, too, can now get the unfettered Stephen Hawking-grade UI experience. That you are now confined to the Apple headphones (there’s a good model… which costs as much as the i...

New iPod Shuffle - Apple has quietly released a new, smaller shuffle with more memory. It’s about half the size of the 2G shuffle with twice the memory (4gigs). It is sleek looking with a few caveats. One is price ($80, considering cost of memory should be $50 or less), and another is control is d...

Two bits of mac news for the price of one! iTunes 8.1 "Coming Soon". Claims to have a speed boost for large libraries (yay) and to have expanded the Genius feature for movies and TV shows (meh). If you haven't seen the new iPod Shuffle you haven't read your RSS feeds yet this morning. Smaller form f...

As you probably know, the new Apple iPod shuffle can speak up the name of your songs, artists, and playlists. I initially thought it was a new text-to-speech chip. It is not: As you can see in this flowchart, the trick happens in your computer. Apple patented the process a while back, and it's going...

As my last foray into Apple rumour land states: I've been "predicting" a Mac Tablet for 4 years now. Today, it would be more like a super iPhone or iPod Touch, with a 7" screen. Now Om has been reading the tea leaves and finally thinks that a Mac Tablet / Netbook / Super iPhone is som...

Once upon a time... My friend Silvia asked what OH meant and this started us on the topic of Twitter-etiquette or should it be Twitterquette?  Silvia wants to call it tweetiquette. Anyway, below is a list of helpful tips and a dictionary for some terms that are being used on the Twittersphere a...