Bob Lefsetz posts a scorching response to the underperforming U2 album: I saw U2 on Letterman, and what struck me was it was Dave’s show. It was like U2 were members of the peanut gallery, brought up on stage at the end of the telecast to perform for the children. How the fuck did we get here? How...

Schneier on Security: Privacy in the Age of Persistence "Being constantly scrutinized undermines our social norms; furthermore, it's creepy. Privacy isn't just about having something to hide; it's a basic right that has enormous value to democracy, liberty, and our humanity."...

I have heard that Bookmarks is experiencing its own, painful credit crunch at the moment, and needs to raise approximately ten grand in a very short period of time. Bookmarks is one of the few socialist bookshops in the UK, contains a lot of material that you would otherwise find hard to get hold of...

I’m doing some tests on my blog right now where I import delicous.com bookmarks using feedwordpress, in an attempt to find interesting and automatic ways to present my wonderful interweb finds. When I started blogging alot of my posts where classic web-logs, often just a link or two and perhap...

Ryanair: "Lunatic bloggers can keep the blogosphere" | Media | guardian.co.uk hard to believe that the exchange was real and not a parody.. (tags: socialmedia blogger ryanair travel airlines pr) MacBook Air hinge defect not covered by Apple's warranty? - Engadget very bad, my hinges a...

A couple recent items caught my eye with regard to the issue of employee adoption of social software. In Reversing the Enterprise 2.0 Pricing Model, Julien le Nestour argues that pricing per user for social software should increase as more employees use it, because the network effects of higher part...

I stumbled onto this great useful site http://sphere.com How do you find good blogs in a specific topic? We open Technorati or Blogdigger etc and search for blogs dealing with a specific topic. But Sphere is not just a blog search engine but offers something significance.This is a search engine cum ...

If Apple knows how to do anything, it's take tech you've already seen and make it flashier and more fun to use. The new Safari 4 public beta is no exception. Apple says Safari 4's 150 features are "leading the way with innovation," but in reality they're all things we've used before in other browser...

I don’t know how many of my readers are habitual users of one or more of the many social bookmarking services available out there … I am one of those and until a couple of weeks ago I’ve used del.icio.us (sorry, I’m a fan of the old “spelling”) and ma.gnolia. For ...

Delicious, a powerful social bookmarking tool, has been around for what seems like forever, and while it may not get as much press as Digg, it still has an extremely active and loyal group of users. There are a number of tools out there that cater to these users, some of which still even stick by t...