http://www.wambooli.com/blog Thrice weekly high tech commentary Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:01:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Print media is not dead. Printed material will always be with us, primarily for the reasons of permanence and portability. Newspaper publishers specifically need to understand what business they're in now that the timeliness factor is owned by the Internet. Better still, they can exploit the power of the computer ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/27/how-newspapers-can-adapt-to-the-internet/ In the late 1990s I attended a convention where the keynote address was titled (in part) Roadkill on the Information Superhighway. Nearly 10 years later I can proudly declare one species as roadkill: the newspaper. But they weren't killed. Instead, they ran out into traffic and got squished. The key to ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/25/and-the-newspapers-will-be-the-first-to-go/ Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC. And, dang it, this ad campaign has been successful! Apple's Mac and PC guy campaign has worked so well that Microsoft is fighting back. Apparently they've hired Jerry Seinfeld to lead a series of new, pro-Microsoft ads. The project is being funded with ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/22/do-you-update/ I have an unhealthy obsession with computer keyboards. It all started back in the 1980s. I don't recall where or why, but I was using a terminal on a large computer system. I loved the keyboard. The keys where mechanical. They made a pleasing click as I typed. I could feel ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/20/im-a-keyboard-snob/ This is my 100th post on this blog. Wow. I didn't think that I would make it, but persistance pays off. What do they say? Do something at least 20 times for it to become habit? If only losing weight were so simple. Having hosting the Wambooli site since 1997, I've always ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/18/post-100/ I had one of the very first computer radio talk shows in the known universe. Back in 1988, I was editor of ComputorEdge magazine in San Diego. The publisher purchased an hour block of weekend time on a local radio station, KVSD. The station was located in north San Diego County. ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/15/radio-active/ What is the nature of space? No, not outer space. I'm speaking of the spaces between words. It's the typesetting nature of a word processor that makes it necessary to press one space after a sentence instead of two; two spaces are a typewriter thing and help to make monospaced, typewritten ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/13/spaced-out/ A hyphen is a minus sign is a dash, but that's not entirely true. There are different types of dashes available for your writing pleasure. Before the media releases a panicked news flash, know which is which and how to use them in Microsoft Word. No one wants to be a ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/11/an-en-and-an-em/ Almost immediately after succumbing to the seductive personal networking web site Facebook, I joined another, similar social networking site, Twitter. Yes, as with Facebook, I expressed reservations upon joining Twitter. That horrid MySpace experience was coming back to haunt me. But Twitter isn't exactly a social networking site as much as ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/08/im-all-a-twittercom/ I've tried to resist for a long, long time. But I've failed. A few years back, my son's girlfriend alerted me to a MySpace post made by the lad. She as freaked out and told me to read it. I discovered that I couldn't read the post unless I signed up ... http://www.wambooli.com/blog/2008/08/06/social-networking/