A key part of marketing to the web is knowing what your audience is thinking. This is basic to any marketing, really. Consider a television commercial for beer. It might be a funny commercial. Fosters (we’re sorry to bring them up) advertises in America with a series called “How to speak Australian” featuring jokes based [...]

Oh, good! Slashdot recently gave us all a treat, when they posted an explanation of why their Bing search engine fails. We’re happy because the other shoe has dropped; we have our inevitable postmortem, and we can now return our attention to the one important search engine and leave the other stragglers for second-rate consideration. [...]

Interesting coverage of the BlogHer 5-year anniversary, where they take a look back at where women in blogging are now. “Where are the women in tech?” is a huge blog-buzz topic lately. It’s interesting, because you have to wonder what’s so special about technology that it must have 50/50 sexual representation? You don’t see front-page [...]

The story of the Internet has always been a battle between the old guard corporations and the new guard users. So, Microsoft has had to battle against Free and Open Source software, IBM had to battle against the PC clones, Apple had to battle against the PC, proprietary Unix had to battle against BSDs, and [...]

While Smashing Magazine is usually content to post lists about visual design, when they decide to roll up their sleeves and get into the code, they really make a post you can believe in. Here’s The Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript Implementation. There’s something here even for experienced scripters. For instance in Sin #1, it [...]

Our favorite blogger who specializes in the human side of technology, Jeff Atwood, has brought to light the distressing story of how many candidates who show up for programming job interviews can’t program. He, and many of the comments appended, marvel at this phenomena. But it’s not so surprising, when you stop and think about [...]

We never thought we’d be typing this in our lifetimes, but it looks like everyone’s finally serious about killing off Internet Explorer 6. YouTube should be pulling the plug on IE6 support about now. They’re giving IE6 a very nice funeral. Many web developers, who have had over eight years of torture trying to design [...]

In case you didn’t catch the buzz going around, the story of how an ancient Windows flaw was found after 17 years is pretty-well explained at the Inquirer. The news was particularly shocking because it was a simple hole that has been in existence since Windows 3.1 all the way up to the latest Windows [...]

We jumped when we saw the title of this post: How to be a good client, but then when we read the content, it wasn’t what we had in mind. Don’t get us wrong, it’s all good advice, but we’d really like to take this time to advise readers on how to get the most [...]