Google recently announced that they’d bought the company behind Blogger, which provides tools that let people build personal weblog-type sites.

The blogging community went collectively insane, and several near-histrionic posts followed. Most predicted that the purchase of Blogger by Google would spur a renaissance in personal expression or similar Utopian visions. I’m pointing to none of […]

Sometimes, TiVo-the-Company pushes low-bitrate advertisements to TiVo-the-DVRs when they make their daily call. (They really need MPEG-4 for this, as low-bitrate MPEG-2 is not pretty.) Recently, a one-minute “Switch-to-Series2″ ad was sent to all customers who purchased lifetime (your TiVo’s lifetime, not yours) service rather than paying by the month.

The deal is that TiVo will […]

Wired News had a brief chat with Marc Andreessen — for you youngsters, the Shawn Fanning of his time — about his thoughts on the tin anniversary of Mosaic.

He seems a tad out-of-touch, though. Demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the strategic purpose of Apple’s Safari, he says:

I think it’s so funny that Apple […]