Archive for December, 2008
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Meat Clouds and Serverhuggers
About a week ago, I posted my roster of The 2008 Cloud Computing All-Stars (I’ll be updating this shortly with new players and possibly a poll). Botchagalupe followed it up this week with his inaugural 2008 Cloudies Awards. My favorite category is his Best New Cloudy Terms (of which his... Continue Reading
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Picture This: I’m a photo contest winner
About a month ago I came across a post in my RSS reader about an annual photo contest the guys at A Good Beer Blog were running. I’m an amateur photographer and, on a whim, decided to submit a couple of shots I had lying around on my hard drive.... Continue Reading
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The 2008 Cloud Computing All-Stars
One of the most talked about technologies of 2008 was unquestionably cloud computing (okay, maybe not unquestionably…this is the tech industry, afterall). Cloud computing — from consumer-level apps such as Facebook to big company entries such as Microsoft’s Azure — dominated a good part of the tech conversation over the... Continue Reading
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Taking the First Step: RSS Readers
ReadWriteWeb blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick quoted me in a post earlier this evening highlighting a number of social media tools those in the industry (read: early adopters, geeks) first introduce new users to: PR pro Mike Maney says he starts with an RSS reader (specifically, NetNewsWire from Newsgator) because it’s “amazing... Continue Reading
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