The last couple of days has seen a resurgence in the discussion about Feedburner and the growing dissatisfaction with the service – especially since it was sucked into the black hole known as Google Acquisitions. People like Chris Pirillo; who is actually thinking of leaving the service, and Allen...

Advertising dollars. The necessary evil for companies doing business and being able to sell more products to more customers. It’s a never ending cycle isn’t it. From the earliest days of newspapers, radio and television the rules have been pretty simple. Your ad department typically hires on ad ...

One of the more frustrating things when writing up posts; and nut just in Windows Live Writer, is the need to include non-traditional characters in a post. Whether it be the copyright symbol - © - or the trademark symbol – ™ – or the cent’s symbol – ¢ – or the British pound symbol or t...

This post has kinda been building up inside of me for some time now and every time I have tried to put my thoughts down in some kind of coherent stream of words I usually end up losing it about a quarter of the way through. Mainly because that while I am trying hard to write something that comes clo...

For as long as there have been web pages and people needing to pay hosting fees and potentially make a living at running their websites there has been ad networks of all sorts trying to place ads on those sites. In most cases the real winners in the early days were the networks who kept; and still k...

I know there are a lot of folks who suggest that it doesn’t matter who; or the numbers of people following you on social services like Twitter or FriendFeed are. They like to suggest that it is more about the number of people you follow regardless of whether or not those people follow you back. On...

One of the most talked about rules that just about every new blogger will hear being thrown around like it is some damn commandment is that you need to be original. the second has to be the one about linking out to other bloggers – especially if you want to build up any kind of rep. These are nice...

Being a Canadian I don’t have the questionable pleasure of dealing with Comcast; one of the biggest US cable providers and while that doesn’t mean we don’t have our own problems with providers up here it sure would seem that dealing with Comcast is a similar to dealing with the many faces of E...

There was a bit of an uproar after the recent MacWorld when Apple announced that the new MacBook Pro’s would ship with a battery pack that users wouldn’t be able to replace themselves. No - the battery will have to be replaced by qualified Apple Geniuses at your local Apple store. As insulting a...

There is always one thing you can always count on Chris Brogan to do. You can always count on him to write posts that make you sit back and do some serious thinking; and some times soul searching, when it comes to ethics for bloggers. Not only our own ethics but how that drives the kind of readershi...