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Doing it right

After my rant about the eBay spoof auto-reply email, Jeff followed up with an example of a good response. Thanks, Jeff!

March 25, 2005

I’ve been duped!

What a difference an “s” makes… I posted about this seemingly clueless company. Turns out, it’s some sort of fraud. The real company is http://www.ibackup.net/ and

March 24, 2005

I've been duped!

What a difference an “s” makes… I posted about this seemingly clueless company. Turns out, it’s some sort of fraud. The real company is http://www.ibackup.net/ and

March 24, 2005

More Google Greatness

Google launches more cool stuff: Google Code What is code.google.com? Code.google.com is our site for external developers interested in Google-related development. It?s where we?ll publish

March 24, 2005

Homemade comics community

Another cool Boing Boing find: Our Parisian friends at Fluctuat.net and AEIOU are the creators of Gnomz, “a community that enables web users to create

March 24, 2005

The Rules

As you probably know by now if you follow this blog, I do community work for a living. I work day in and day out

March 23, 2005

eBay Spoof

Lately I’ve been getting a ton of those eBay spoof mails. You know the ones – some spammer sends you an email seemingly from eBay

March 23, 2005

Clueless Defined

Dear lord… this is bad. Really really bad. As Seth said, if I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes… NOTICE TO ALL IBACKUPS CUSTOMERS:

March 22, 2005

Tipping Point Primer

Regardless of whether you’ve read The Tipping Point or not (and if you haven’t, what’s wrong with you??), this Tipping Point Primer is a great

March 22, 2005

Earth to Sony – reality is a nice place

Yeah… it’s the P2P networks that are killing the music industry: Cory Doctorow: A Fiona Apple album that Sony decided not to release has become

March 21, 2005

Play some Skynrd

Hehe… I have to admit yelling this a time or two. Yelling “Freebird!” has been a rock clich? for years, guaranteed to elicit laughs from

March 21, 2005

Selling Community

Scott nails why “selling community” isn’t quite right. Here’s how it started: Last week, I got an mass email from There.com a virtual environment I

March 19, 2005