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Blogging is Spreading Like a Virus In My House

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Although there has been a drought of posts here, that hasn’t meant things haven’t been busy. Tracy, my wife of 11 years started a blog to support her hand-made baby blanket business, Snug-A-Bug Blankets. She has been making high end baby blankets from beautiful prints and the really soft minky fabric and selling them on [...]

Web 2.0 Revealed: Steve Rucinski is Wrong on This One

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

The Title Is All Wrong
Catching up on posts this morning I came across this post from Steve Rucinski (whose posts I go out of my way to read) at BizInformer. Steve wrote, “…this company (www.sitekreator.com) is actually integrating the underlying basic principles and technical capabilities to help businesses improve customer relationships by developing a better [...]

My Web 2.0 Poke, “A Gushing Piece of Love”

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Called Out Via TrackBack
After posting yesterday about Baekdal’s post. I got a trackback from here that talked suggested that it was content light and mostly “a gushing piece of love for the actual story”.
The thing is—is that it was the first time that I found someone who mirrored many of my feelings towards Web 2.0, [...]

Web 2.0 and the Ajaxalope

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

A Kindred Spirit
I came across a post today that reinforces my true feelings about the hype and flutter that surrounds Web 2.0. It goes on to argue as to why AJAX is often misrepresented and misused in application development.
The reason for my distaste for Web 2.0 is because it is a label that gets applied [...]