There was some controversy surrounding Twitter's non-reaction to dealing with some allegedly harassing posts recently , with the noise being made by a user who is reasonably well known in certain tech circles. (The fact that she works for competitor Pownce I think is irrelevant, but some are making noise...

I love Ars Technica, but I think they're slipping. While the articles they post in the legal realm are fascinating, when they get down to writing about bits, they get the most uninformed jackasses they can find. Check out this steaming pile of crap on why .NET is a failure , and count how many times...

It's weird how bloggers, gossip types and "Web 2.0" company founders and execs have developed into this strange pseudo-celebrity sphere, where many of them are constantly stroking each other. What's unfortunate about it is that the podcasts, blogs and other media I've consumed from the tech world are...

For the love of God, please, if you do screen casts or live demos, please try to let go of the "gonna go ahead and" verbal crutch. I've noticed countless people who otherwise do amazing demos in person and in video screen casts say this over and over and over and over and over and over (see, it's annoying...

After reading this post from Dan Hounshell (via Rob Howard's post ), I'm drawn to more questions about "what's wrong with the ASP.NET community," and I'm still convinced that people are asking the wrong questions. To really understand where we are, I think we need to look at where we've been. There's...

I was listening to TWIT #136 and, wow, Leo Laporte is totally out of touch. Patrick Norton is not far behind. Listen starting around 36:30. I've found that lately these guys are hanging out in Pundit Valley and completely missing what's going on in the rest of the world. He's actually got the balls to...

I'm sitting here in Nikhil Kothari's session on ASP.NET AJAX, and he's going through some of the more basic stuff to start. So I'm reading e-mail and kinda scoping out the room. First of all, there's a guy with a MacBook Air sitting in front of me. It's very cool. I couldn't help but notice he was looking...

Only in Vegas, right? I just sat down for the first keynote, and they've got a Johnny Cash impersonator singing on stage to warm up the crowd. They figured out that breakfast need not be overly fancy the way they did in '06, but cold scrambled eggs are kind of the opposite extreme. During the Q&A...

I didn't know they were doing it, but they're screening [i]King of Kong[/i] here. I figured I might as well hang out and watch it and surf for porn on Microsoft's dime. There's a Q&A after the movie... and if it's the guys from the movie (the "champ" is supposed to try and beat the record at the...

I gotta say, this is the most excited I've been in awhile to travel. I checked in already and got a much better seat, up like ten rows from where I was. Yay! I'm genuinely excited about Mix . The first one in 2006 was fun, and I got a lot out of it. I like these kinds of cross-disciplinary conferences...