Brazen

RSS, FlipBoard and Me

Recently I privately declared RSS bankruptcy. I had managed to tame my feeds in such a way that I could usually get through everything and some days I’d just clear out my low value feeds in order to keep up. Then on June 30th as part of The Dojo I attended an online webinar “Escaping [...]

Amazon’s being reasonable with publishers over Apple ebook pricing

I read an article today on Silicon Alley Insider Amazon Tells Small Publishers It Will Stop Selling Their Books If They Join Apple which if that was the case would clearly be big news. However I read the quote and I’m left scratching my head. It actually doesn’t seem from what they print in the [...]

Managing Feeds Part Two

I previously talked about reordering my Google reader in order to make my life less overwhelming. A little over a month has gone by and I thought I’d post an update about how it’s worked. Things have been a tremendous success. By simply re-categorizing my feeds into Low Volume, High Value and Low Value I [...]

Managing Feeds

Today I logged into Google Reader and saw that I had 230 unread items. This is not unusual, nor it is particularly difficult to get through. However, that is what’s in my “inbox” between when I checked it last night and when I woke up this morning. I’m not sure how many items I get [...]

How to Lose Customers

Ever since I got my TiVo back in 2006 I’ve been a huge fan of it. True, it’s frustrating to have to attach the little infrared lights to my cable box, and although the DVR functionality works amazingly, many of the other features leave a lot to be desired. Last year before I was preparing [...]