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After receiving multiple requests for a follow-up to my anti-Twitter rant a few months back, I've decided to try and do just that.

One of our clients asks why she's suddenly getting more spam, and what we can do about it.
For a few years, she got no spam at all, and then suddenly she's getting upwards of 80 a week. What happened?

George asks, why is everybody talking about Twitter?

So here's what I think happened. A bunch of attorneys got really ticked about their computers crashing all the time.

I just gave a presentation on Hacking Business Models and Open Source Business.
For those interested, here's my slide deck...
Cheers,
John
 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.