Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Pownce Got Pounced On and Ejected

December 2, 2008 at 11:00 PM

in Unsorted

A Little Bit: Mentioned on Mashable yesterday, Six Apart bought up Pownce, but announced yesterday that the service is being shut down and the staff sucked into the rest of Six Apart to work on other projects. If you’ve been using Pownce, you may be considering Twitter more than ever… In their company blog post [...]

WordPress 2.7 Release Imminent?

December 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM · 1 comment

in Social Software

Jane posted earlier today that WordPress 2.7 will be “coming to WordPress.com” in two days. Here’s an excerpt of the beginning portion of her post that will clear up some of the confusion: As promised, here is the advance notice that WordPress 2.7 is coming to WordPress.com, and will go live on Thursday, December 4, [...]

The Guild on Xbox LIVE

December 2, 2008 at 6:16 PM

in Management,Meanderings

If you’ve been keeping up with the funny online short sitcom series known as The Guild, you’re probably in with the rest of the crowd clamoring for more. At this point, a couple of episodes for the new second season have shown up on The Guild site. Felicia Day and producer Kim showed up at [...]

To top it off (you’ll see what I mean), here’s an online reprint from my second Moleskine about yet another most curious (and disappointing) major event in the history of fast-food customer service: A Funny Thing Happened at McDonald’s… When I went over to a nearby McDonald’s for a late lunch today, I was shocked [...]

Daily Weirdness?

December 2, 2008 at 1:34 PM

in Meanderings

An odd day-of-days today… It seems that Barack took my challenge head-on by showing up at the National Governors meeting and announcing that he is going to step forward and get to work sooner rather than later. Of course, everything is in the execution, this time around, so it’s a matter of observation at this [...]