Sep 30, 2008 Posted by john

Barfly’s Love ORBlogs!

Kyle Ritter, of Barfly Magazine has taken it upon himself to resurrect the ORBlogs aggregator in an effort called Ignoregon. Jack Bog broke the story faster than I and Kyle were prepared, so I wrote a quick post on the ORBlogs blog with the details. Check it... read more

Sep 25, 2008 Posted by john

Twitter hijacked. Is it Chi.mp, or something worse?

Not really sure the scoop, but with Twitter closed, I had a minute to at least spout off half cocked about what’s going on. Within a half hour of setting up my new Chi.mp account, Twitter failed- and the Fail Whale was no where to be found. Instead, when logging into the Twitter website, I was greeted with this: Production-Staging Access – Employees Only?” What’s this? Not... read more

Sep 23, 2008 Posted by john

Searching might just be cool again

Or Cuil, as the case may be. Looks like Google may have competition on search front. The question: Can a few ex-Googlers and something like $33 million kick-start a rival to Google? Given that Anna Patterson, the internet’s foremost search engine rockstar, is on the case, that is very likely. Of course, even with $33 million dollars, Cuil is the equivalent of a tiny little yappy dog who’s... read more

Sep 22, 2008 Posted by john

Blogging on ORBlogs

After being up for over a week, I thought that it would be a good idea to announce here that there is a blog about ORBlogs over at http://blog.orblogs.org. That is all. read more

Sep 11, 2008 Posted by john

Talking with Paul Bausch about ORBlogs

Paul is one of those people who you talk to and just feel thoughtfulness flowing off of him. I learned a lot of important lessons during my talk with Paul Bausch about ORBlogs. I wanted to get a feeling for how he felt about the current excitement, and about the possibilities for the future. Most of all I wanted to make sure that the excitement wasn’t getting out of hand to him, and if he wanted to... read more