Sol Young

Most of you know I rarely go out of my way to publicly voice such a negative opinion as I’m about to issue. Especially against a company for which: a) I hold stock, and b) I believe is one of the best large companies in Silicon Valley.
Today I signed up for Yahoo! Merchant Services for [...]

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Yesterday I asked the question, “Random House DRM-free a hoax?“ The question was based on Cory Doctorow’s post announcing a big move by Random House towards DRM-free MP3 audiobooks. The PDF on his site links to a letter by Madeline McIntosh detailing the move to Random House’s partners.
Since my post both Cory and Madeline have confirmed the validity of the [...]

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It used to be any male able to convey more knowledge than octane numbers to a Jiffy Lube salesman would avoid upselling. Not any more. I haven’t become such a geek I can’t hang with grease monkeys. Those tactics are sending me elsewhere… The dollar votes.

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So I got to thinking the other day about all the peeps on Twitter who have slick, short, names. Most I follow on Twitter follow this convention (ev, al3x, jack, biz, dick, iofy, to name a few). It’s not just a status symbol on the service, but also a matter of resource utilization.
I switched from solyoung to sol. Easier to remember and less to [...]

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