Couples That Communicate

It’s often said that open communication is the key to a long-lasting relationship. I’m not sure how you’d classify this one, but tonight Laura and I communicated via email to plan our May 3 weekend. That’s not so strange except that I was on the third floor in my home office, while she was on the first floor in our sun room.… Read the rest

Giving Away Attention And SEO To News-Release Companies

A PR-agency rep for one of the major three news-release distribution services pitched me today on the success of his client’s ability to frequently make the homepage of TechMeme, the tech news aggregator. If you work in the tech and Internet industry, TechMeme is a big deal because of it’s influence in shaping and promoting the flow of tech news and information.… Read the rest

An Elegant Spam-Fighting, Widget-Breeding Superhero

I just had my one-year anniversary of hosting this blog with WordPress blog-hosting software. My experience has been much better than with Moveable Type — which I used prior. The primary reason? The WordPress’s Akismet:

Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

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I Finally Switched To Fiber Optic Internet

I’ve been Twittering the never-ending saga of firing my cable company and switching to a (finally) newbie competitor. I’m sure the journey’s far from over, but here’s a summary report — also my latest MediaPost column

I Finally Switched To Fiber Optic Internet
April 18th, 2008 by Max Kalehoff

Last October, I contemplated canceling my bundled Internet-television-phone package through my local cable company and switching to Verizon FiOS.… Read the rest