On the face of it the Blogging Code of Conduct proposed by web elder Tim O’Reilly is one of those little Miss Sunshine ideas that seems so sensible and necessary that it defies easy disagreement.   It’s like being opposed to, say, the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.”  What […]

Speculation about Apple’s highly-hyped “It’s Showtime” marketing event tomorrow is running about as feverish as a third-grade classroom during a chicken pox epidemic.  Everyone agrees that a download distribution deal with Disney will be announced and probably a larger capacity video iPod, but after a rather lackluster performance at the last Apple hoopla a couple of months ago and the lingering […]

The people have spoken and they love their Google.  Despite having senior executives who have recently made public fools of themselves in certain matters of luxury aircraft design and…shudder…genericide, Google is tops for the fifth year in a row in the e-business category of the cross-industry American Customer Satisfaction Index, run by the University of Michigan.  […]

Further proof that when cool companies get big they behave just like the other jerks.

Senator Stevens Makes an Ass of Himself…Again 
“I have a letter from a big scientist who said I was absolutely right in using the word ‘tubes’.”
US consumers losing trust in online banking 
U.S. consumers are not as enamored with online banking as they once were and are citing online security as their top concern, according to a […]

The Wall Street Journal (subscription-required) has an hilarious story this morning about Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page squabbling over the size of their beds on a Boeing 767 they were having turned into a “party airplane.”  Seems Sergey wanted a “California king” and Larry didn’t–a dispute that had to be arbitrated by CEO Eric […]