Google Reader Gets More Social
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 15. Jul, 2009 | View Comments
Google Reader has long been my RSS feed reader of choice, but using it was never much of a social experience. The earlier attempts at community, from shared feeds to comments, just fell flat. Good thing the solo experience (not to mention the iPhone version) was so solid or I would have given up a [...]
Google Is Heading For A Cliff; What Will They Do?
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Personal on 22. May, 2009 | View Comments
Google is the most important company to the Internet. Hyberbole? I think not! Without Google, the Internet that we all know and love would be a very different place, as would the business of IT. Along with Microsoft and the supporting community around LAMP, Google is the very foundation of modern computing. But the foundation of Google itself, its ability to rank Internet content and present relevant information to its users, is at risk. What will they do to fix it?
Introducing Gestalt IT, a New Web Magazine For Enterprise IT Infrastructure Commentary
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Virtual Storage on 25. Feb, 2009 | View Comments
Times are changing in the tech media world, so a core group of independent enterprise IT bloggers have come together to combine our writing into a mega blog or web magazine focused on enterprise IT infrastructure topics like virtualization, networking, and storage: Gestalt IT. The idea is that the best content from the best enterprise IT folks is brought together in one place.
Nine Blog Suggestions from a Grumpy Reader
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 20. Feb, 2009 | View Comments
I subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds, and read them religiously. According to Google Reader’s statistics, I read about 200 items per day out of over 700 posted to all of those feeds. As you might expect, I’ve got some strong feelings about blogs and news sites after reading that much.
So this message is aimed [...]
BackType Is Closing The Blog Comment Hole
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 13. Nov, 2008 | View Comments
I am an avid reader of RSS feeds, relying on Google Reader to keep me up to date with the latest industry news. But there is a hole in the world of blogs – comments are a dead end. I literally read hundreds of blogs and occasionally leave a comment, but I rarely go back [...]
My New All-Apple Feed
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage, Everything, Personal, Terabyte home on 22. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
With all the Apple-related content popping up on this blog, I decided to add an Apple-only feed to the mix. Now, if you’d like to follow my adventures with the Mac, iPhone, and other Apple junk, and don’t care about all the enterprise storage and general home computing stuff, you can subscribe to just the [...]
Get Your Enterprise Storage Feed Fix From FriendFeed
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 07. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
Serious tongue-twister of a title, right?
I just created a “room” at FriendFeed with many of my favorite enterprise storage and backup-related RSS feeds. So swing on over there and enjoy! You can interact at FriendFeed or just subscribe to the Atom feed in your favorite reader to keep up to date on the latest news [...]
I Want a Real Blog Aggregator
Posted by Stephen in Personal on 19. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
I love Google Reader. I love Friendfeed. I even like Plaxo Pulse. But here’s what I want: A one-stop blog aggregator that lets me do everything for everywhere in one place. I want integrated socialization, and especially threading and integrated commenting. And I think we can do it! [...]
Five Foskett Feeds!
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Personal, Terabyte home on 17. Aug, 2007 | View Comments
I’ve decided to add additional sub-feeds to my blog for those who don’t care about one topic or another. If you’re currently subscribed, this means nothing to you since the current feed is a super-set containing all posts. But if you want just a subset, read on!
There are now five Foskett feeds!
All [...]
