Author archive

‘The Decline and Fall of E-mail’    (2010.12.20)

A veteran like Cringely must surely be aware that what corrupted E-mail was top-posting

The story J‑Source wouldn’t run    (2010.12.20)

J-Source commissioned a story on gay money, then ignored my ass. So here it is!

Millionaire celebrity author puts out ‘tip jar’    (2010.12.17)

A-list humorist David Sedaris, who used to live in the south of France, used to put out a “tip jar” that raked in four grand

‘Yahoo is a company that…’    (2010.12.17)

Mark Norman Francis wrote an excoriating sequence of Twits about Yahoo, preserved for posterity here

Freako covers fago    (2010.12.17)

Freakonomics actually covers my work on gay money. Funny how no one else in the mainstream press, including gay papers, has

Canadian Word of the Year 2010    (2010.12.16)

G20

Hacks & Hackers Toronto II    (2010.12.16)

At the second Hacks & Hackers event, only two of the demos were journalistic. And why are we still doing demos?

I’m not the only one who thinks comments are harmful on news sites    (2010.12.14)

Ask Ben Hammersley: Chasing “the conversation” is “actually almost a cultural crime”

Microsoft: ‘We were incompetent on this’    (2010.12.14)

Why isn’t Windows Phone 7 accessible to blind people? Ask Microsoft. Somebody did, and here was the answer: “We were incompetent on this”