blogging

Why we removed on-site comments.

January 16, 2012

We’ve thrown this around in our head for some time now, and we finally decided to pull the trigger and disable site comments. There was no particular event that forced us to do this, and we weren’t encumbered by moderation problems like much larger sites are. So why bother nixing comments? Over the past several [...]

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Can’t blog on the iPad? Get your head checked.

June 3, 2011

John Gruber countered Jared Newman’s writeup defending Windows 8, and we won’t rehash the whole deal. But we will comment on Newman’s ridiculous statement about blogging on the iPad: While it’d be nice if Microsoft created touch-based versions of its productivity software — and don’t rule it out just yet — there’s only so much [...]

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Our iPad use experiment.

November 18, 2010

Lately, all the Apple talk has been around the MacBook Air’s ability to serve as one’s primary computer, but we say that’s not going far enough. When the iPad was released, we embarked on a revolutionary experiment: replace our 17″ MacBook Pro with a 3G iPad, and see if the much smaller, sleeker device had [...]

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Comment moderation is a sin.

April 14, 2009

For most web-surfers, one’s inbox is the focal point for spam, but let’s be honest: the internet itself is one giant hodge-podge of spam. The very ease of setting up accounts at most every portal and site out there makes for both convenience and interconnectivity, though it just as easily creates a spawning pool for [...]

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