
Is Anyone Else Tw-ired of Twitter
I consider myself a pretty tech savvy kid, you may even call me a mid-term adopter of all things tech. But there is one project that has offended me more over the past few months that has finally pushed me to post a blog against it.
Ask Freelock: Shared hosting, managed hosting, dedicated hosting, what's the difference?
Ksenia asks, how difficult is it to move all our stuff from Media Temple to SliceHost? I want to be able to make changes on site any time myself.
Reinventing Business
We have a fundamental problem with the structure of public companies in our business economy. For too long, public companies have been held accountable to one single standard: its stock price.
[OO]pening MS Office
So one of my biggest issues with using Open Source technologies here at Freelock comes with perhaps the easiest task most business people do on a day to day basis, and that is using a piece of office productivity software and sharing it with someone else.
Ask Freelock: How do you stop spam?
We get a lot of questions about how to fight spam. For the most part, it's too late when it reaches your email program--but on the mail server, there are several tactics we employ to minimize what reaches your inbox.
Small Business, Big (missed?) Opportunity
On my drive to work, I see businesses up for sale, big stores closing left and right, and people looking for work on the corners.
Drupal vs. Joomla
Dan Knauss of New Local Media wrote up a nice comparison between Word Press, Joomla, and Drupal last summer, which I came across last weekend.
Ask Freelock: Symfony?
No, it's not a misspelling. Symfony is a framework for rapid development of PHP web applications.
Jim asks:
Network neutrality or bulk rate discount?
Just read a crazy article trying to inflame people to be against network neutrality. Study: Google uses 21X more bandwidth than it pays for.
Pet Peeve: A**wipes in intersections
Ok. Generally I avoid off-color language, but I've got yet another rant to get off my chest. And while it's mostly off-topic for this blog, I promise to connect the dots...
Car companies: too big to fail, or too big to survive?
For a time, "economies of scale" meant that the key to success was making a business bigger, and focusing on nothing more than profit. Sell more products however you could, and cut costs as much as possible. This is no longer the case.
Socialism, individualism, and open source
I just heard a Republican pundit on the radio talking about how Republicans are supposed to stand for individual efforts over taking care of others, and small government rather than large. He posited that Republicans had lost the election because they hadn't adhered to these core values.