The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy

Twitter is Dead

October 8th, 2009

Twitter is Dead

It’s been quite a few years since I was a regular reader of Robert X. Cringely in print. I recall when he had a regular column in InfoWorld that it was always good fun. In 1996 he published a book which I purchased, “Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle…

October 8th, 2009

Beware What You Share, You Will Get #twaxed

Twaxed.com: A fun site discovered today that clearly points to the downside of Tweeting. (1-1-2012 – now gone) According to the FAQ: Why is my Tweet on Twaxed.com? Your Tweet got #twaxed because it is absurdly ridiculous, completely inappropriate, or highly entertaining. What is this site? With your help, we post and then rank the…

October 1st, 2009

Adobe-Omniture, Part 3

What a great week this has been! I set for myself a tough task last Friday — produce a detailed, fair, informed and detailed report on Adobe’s proposed (and, I think, extremely likely to succeed) proposal to buy the web analytics firm Omniture — and publish my report by next Monday. I’ve received cooperation from…