Kathy Sierra, a well-known blogger and author of books on Web design and programming, has abruptly canceled a speaking engagement after a rash of death threats began appearing on her blog as well as others.
"As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference," Sierra wrote Monday on her blog. "But I'm not. I'm at home, with the doors locked, terrified."
In a telephone interview, Sierra accused some of her fellow bloggers of conducting a terror campaign against her. She also said that the...
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Robert Scoble, former strategist on Microsoft's evangelism team, now has his own video show, www.scobleshow.com where he interviews people like Sun Microsystems' CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Printing for Less CEO Andrew Field, JotSpot CEO Joe Krauss, among others including a cool photo walk with Thomas Hawk.
Robert Scoble has had some fun “auditing” Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. In “Is Microsoft really the largest blog vendor?” Scoble challenges Microsoft’s assertions:
Microsofties take it on face value that they host the most blogs. They even love shoving it in your face… So, over the next few hours I’m gonna do some analysis and see if I can find out how much overcounting there’s going on.
In “The Elephant in the kitchen” Scoble discusses the results of his "audit":
What does Microsoft do when it says 'we have...
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