January 25, 2008
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How Microsoft could kick some Google ass
It’s amazing to me that Microsoft doesn’t make live.com search any easier. Take the maps side of live.com. It beats the crap out of Google Maps in at least one hugely helpful area: “bird’s eye” views — from four different direcitons. But man, what a frustrating UI. Maybe it’s better for Windows/IE users, but if… Continue reading
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Change the label, not the goods
Change is in the air at WUMB is a story ran ran in the Boston Globe yesterday, about trouble the U Mass Boston radio station is having with the label for most of its programming: folk. And perhaps the programming itself. It begins: Money changes everything, at least for WUMB-FM (91.9). Thanks in part… Continue reading
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Faustian bargaining
Here’s a terrific post by Rex Hammock, explaining our common cause in a losing battle against the eggregious overuse of the word “content”. Continue reading