Dylan Tweney

Blog comments are like drive-by shootings: Someone fires off a comment, then disappears, never to be seen again. There’s no follow-through, and it’s hard to engage in a sustained back-and-forth shootout, I mean, conversation. Subscribe to Comments changes that. It’s a free WordPress plugin that acco

The old grade school puzzler goes like this: Which is heavier: A pound of bricks or a pound of feathers? If you’re eight years old and you’re not paying attention, you say “bricks.” JP Rangaswami, who writes the IT blog Confused of Calcutta, used a similar analogy in a discussion I had with him last

The videonet is here. Data point: People upload 50,000 videos to YouTube every day. In turn, the site delivers 50 million video views each day. That’s huge. One of the most useful panels at Supernova covered “the rise of the videonet.” One of the panelists, Mary Hodder of Napsterization, quoted some

How real is the Net advertising boom? “Only about 6 percent of all advertising spending in the United States went to the Internet in the first quarter of the year … but it was clearly the fastest-growing category — up 38 percent year over year.” Waiting for the Dough on the Web

It’s a stellar networking event. The presentations were way too long, and too many of them were packed with empty platitudes about collaboration, change, innovation, “user generated content,” the “long tail,” blah blah blah. I nearly fell asleep several times. There was a lot of wit and intelligence

Conversation at Supernova today: Big podcaster: We had over one million people listen to that podcast! Intel exec: Yeah, we got about 200,000 downloads from people you referred to us. So that was pretty good. Not, you know, millions, but pretty good. Me: Is there any way you can tell whether people

I’ll be at Supernova 2006 here in San Francisco, tomorrow and Friday. If you’re going to be there, drop me a line and let’s see if we can meet up: Email dylan_tweney at ziffdavis.com (or just post a comment here). PS I’m also going to try to spend some time at Bloggercon, although it looks […]

Gol dang, Shane, them rustlers keep bustin’ through our fences. We gotta protect our property: Intellectual Property Prosecutions Double, Says Justice

Now I can let you know what I’ve been beavering away at for the past month. PCMagCast’s first Security & Mobility Virtual Tradeshow will be happening August 23 and 24, with a full lineup of presentations and other goodies on computer security and mobility for businesses. We’re trying to replicate th

Amazing but true: Madeleine Albright can leg-press 400 pounds: Madeleine Albright and the Leg Press: Controversy Settled, Once and For All – Wonkette

I loved my Leatherman and used it nearly every day, but after less than a year one of the clips that lock the tools into the “open” position broke off. It just wasn’t built that well. I took the thing back to REI a few months ago and exchanged it for a slightly more expensive […]

If you’re a parent, the “hygiene hypothesis” (that filth improves your immune system) is very reassuring: Wired News: You Dirty, Healthy Rat