Geek And Poke

Great Moments In The History Of Computer Sports - Part 1

Today's cartoon is just related to the history.

The XYZ-Is-Dead-Mantra

Not long ago Nicholas Carr was constantly declaring the death all new trends (see an old post of this blog).
Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble are still doing the same with the old trends.
I've never understood the purpose of all these XYZ-Is-Dead-Mantras.

P.S.: This is the second episode of my personal XYZ-Is-Dead-Series. See the first episode here.

Social Dangers Of Fatblogging(tm)

Since a couple of weeks Jason Calacanis is propagating Fatblogging(tm) (see e.g. Fatblogging(tm) is not a competition or 191).

That's wanton. Doesn't he know the social dangers of Fatblogging(tm)?

The Podnoses - Episode 20 - Twittering

Finally Michael Arrington is twittering too.

Working Class Heroes

As a reply of Deep Jive Interests Jason Calacanis denies the existence of a 2-class-blogosphere with A-List-Bloggers and Blue Collar Bloggers.
This picture proves the opposite.

ROI Of SOA

No ROI with SOA (see Joe McKendrick).

Bill Hood

Thank God there is one out there fighting for the poor (see Slashdot and Don Dodge - seen through Techmeme)

It's That Easy

Donna Bogatins's posts about the micro-community sites Ning and Cisco's Tribe.net
(see Andreessen vs. Cisco: Web 2.0 platform competition heats up and Web 2.0 Social Networks: Cool but marginal and unprofitable?).

But how many micro-communities can we stand? Have we still reached the point where producing is easier than consuming?