Web 2.0 Bloggers

You can get to the podcast right here, and there is a lot of humor here. Really if you want a laugh, you gotta listen to this. Go screaming to minute 45 to get to the fun bit, it is great hearing pundits swear on a pod cast about “hiding behind a shroud of privacy while pushing their business forward” when it comes to Facebook agreeing to play in Google’s playground on the whole open ID single sign on hoopla that is infecting the tech elite this morning. There is some humor here listening... Read Full Story

The NYTimes is running a post on how three of the bigger names in blogging have suffered heart attacks and medical issues since they started building out their blogging empires. They compare the work that bloggers do as a “sweat shop mentality”, in that the pressures to be 24X7 eventually lead to the demise of ones health. I have been blogging now for 3 years, and I have lost 50 pounds, cut back on cigarettes, and am generally in better health now than I was when I started blogging. If you... Read Full Story

This ought to start off some conversations this morning, if not a bitch meme or two. Techcrunch has gone through Techmeme’s head lines to figure out who the top bloggers are since the beginning of the year. The good part, we read most of these folks, the bad part, if they have an ego, it just got seriously inflated. For now we thought we’d show a teaser - below are the top 100 tech bloggers/authors, based on the total number of headlines they have had on TechMeme from January 1, 2008 until... Read Full Story

One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, blog, Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, blog, Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, blog, We're gonna blog around the clock tonight. An article published in the NY Times Sunday suggests that blogging may be bad for your health. In fact, it cites the deaths of two well-known technology bloggers, Mark Orchant, who passed away at age 50, and Russell Shaw, who died just a few weeks ago at age 60. The inference is blogging contributed to their... Read Full Story

Arrington reminds me of Gargamel from the smurfs. He’s a total dictator by the sounds of things. Does this guy ever learn from his mistakes? I picked up a story about his latest victim from Sam Sethi, who also found himself on Arrington’s evening menue. Oliver Starr is the latest guy to fall victim at the Arrington dinning table . Michael asked me to stop writing MobileCrunch after I agreed to accept a position as Senior Mobile Analyst for Chris Shipley’s Guidewire Group as Mike feels that... Read Full Story