Alex Barnett blog

Chris Messina's post is one of the best things I've read in a long time:"And that is where we are today — in the middle of an uprising from within — lead by folks like Kim Cameron, Ray Ozzie and others — on the opening lines of Web 2.0. What’s lead us here so far has only been the precursor in what will be a ...

After Guy Jackson, Electronic Publishing Manager at Macmillan Dictionaries, left a comment on my post about the OED/KB917422 issue...

Dean Hachamovitch has just announced - well, you know the rest.

Christopher Carfi threw out a interesting idea yesterday..."When an organization puts out a product, the organization defines and publishes a particular tag that they will listen for in the blogosphere when there are customer questions (for example, "office2007question" would have been a good tag the MS could promote with its Office ...

According to the BBC:"A video game depicting playground violence has been banned from some UK shops"...practically guaranteeing that every kid will try to get a copy from the shops where there aren't banned. What great free publicity! Brilliant.

Skimming through R/WW's review of Firefox 2, Microsummaries caught my eye. What are Microsummaries? "Microsummaries are regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. When you bookmark a web page that has a microsummary, you can choose to display the microsummary as the title of the bookmark. Then, when the page changes, the title ...

Nathan asks: "Apple: Is it so hard to own up?"

The rise of the bottled water market is a great example how marketers can make people want something they don't need into something they feel they do need and want and then charge for that something accordingly. To marketers everywhere, be reminded: if bottled water can be charged for at more than the price of gas, then ...

Raymond Chen at his best:"Help text is not the place to put logic puzzles."

Jason Matusow has a piece of news to share regarding Microsoft's interop efforts:"As of today, we are extending our commitment to interoperability by announcing that our Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) Image Format is becoming an open specification under the open specification promise (OSP).  VHD is the file format for storing ...