Did you see the sweet article in the Times about Fake Steve, the blogger who pretended to be Steve Jobs?
Two wonderful posts just in the last week:
1. He fesses up to getting caught, and twits the blogerati for having been unable to ferret him out for 6 months, when the Times did it in [...]

Word of the day: gobsmacked.
One of our new clients, a successful entrepreneur in the gourmet food business, was very concerned about working with people so far from his office in New York. Although he is well-traveled and has done business all over the world, his core team was always local.

“How can [...]

Word For The Day: Proxenetism
A few days ago, I watched the Republican Party lose the U.S. Senate, in large part because people were disgusted with Montana’s Conrad Burns’ and Ohio’s Mike DeWine’s cosy relationship with influence peddler Jack Abramoff.
Americans got sick of it (finally).
Now, with a cheery ignorance that the lies, deceit, [...]

Unaffected - check
Honest - check
Excited and passionate - check
Knows his subject - check
Curious - check
Cares - check
He works at Sun. He designs important software.
He’s reporting, bemusedly, on the ultra-serious people being ultra-serious at the Web 2.0 Conference.
He’s finding his voice and hitting his stride over at his new blog.
He’s my little brother [...]

New proposed legislation would make it a crime, punishable by four years in jail, to anonymously send email, join a chat forum, download content, or write a blog.

The bill states that every user must fully identify herself before using the Net, with full name, current address, phone number and… Social Security Number. [...]

Why do you waste your time and money on things like music and computer games?
Your money, because you’re persuaded by emotion. Your time, because part of your brain thrives on complexity.
Susan Crawford, my favorite ICANN Board Member, writes in a recent post about how people are drawn to complexity, especially as they get older. [...]

This morning, I began to read my RSS feeds with Google Reader, where I was invited to “manage my subscriptions.”
Good idea! Time to cull some stuff I was reading out of a sense of duty:

Joi Ito’s Web today features a photo of him (in a suit and tie) next to [...]

This morning I began to use Google Reader. I was invited to “manage my subscriptions.”
Good idea! Time to add a few great blogs that deserve to move from “occasionally” to “frequently”.

Clublife is written by a bouncer at NYC clubs. He hates the customers. He can barely stand the people he [...]

How many world-shaking ideas have you had in stop-and-go traffic, meditating on those Pennsylvania license plates URLs that seem to change every year? I’ve had 53 — but I can’t remember any of them.
Enter DictaBrain.
DictaBrain gets World-Shaking Idea #54 out of your head and onto your blog (or your book, or your [...]

The Wall Street Journal today, in a long article about book publishing on the Web, completely blew Names@Work’s cover as the producer of “Pulse.” There’s a long expose, in which we are accused of doing “innovative marketing.” Take that, Red Baron!