Looks like the first salvo has been fired in what is sure to be an ongoing controversy over contextual advertising using RSS. Martin Schwimmer, a trademark lawyer, has asked Bloglines

Simon Waldman, Director of Digital Publishing for Guardian Newspapers, writes: "Gizmodo gets handed an interview with Bill Gates. Good for them, I say - and a smart move by Microsoft.

Thanks to a link from Robert Scoble (who is always looking out for his readers, bless him), my issue with Technorati not indexing my blog came to the notice of

What, my links not good enough for you Technorati? ;-) I say that with a wink, but to be honest I'm pissed off with Technorati. My main weblog, Read/Write Web,

There's a nice meme just started, asking people to list their Top 24 posts of 2004 (via). I decided to check out my web stats and dig out the most-visited

What if I told you that, starting 1 December, I will be paid US$800 per month for 3 months to write 1 blog post per week about a company called

To wrap up what has been a busy week, yesterday I finally got some momentum going in the blogosphere with the O'Reilly interview. Thanks to Jason Kottke, Robert Scoble, Phil

In a recent post I floated the theory that Content Creators need Media Companies to help them attract mass eyeballs to read their carefully-crafted content. It would be a symbiotic

This is about as political as I'll get here on Read/Write Web, but I couldn't resist posting this cartoon by fellow kiwi Tom Scott. It also reminds me of the

It's Friday afternoon where I live, so time for a less serious post. There's an art to creating good weblog post titles and most of the time I craft my