Brainnovate

I will happily admit, I am a huge Walt Mossberg fan. Walt is a journalist with the Wall Street Journal, and according to wikipedia, he has written the “Personal Technology” Column since 1991. In fact I think I remember reading his very first column back in 91, and thinking to myself… “this will be good.” And it was and instant hit with me at least.

His critiques are usually spot on, and he has helped thousands upon thousands of people solve their most pressing technology issues. I just enjoy his writing style.

I was starting to become concerned about a lack of activity on the official Personal Technology RSS feed, so I started poking around and discovered Walt’s site has improved since my last visit and has a new feed as well. 700+ subscribers make it apparent this didn’t happen yesterday. The perils of viewing the web through the narrow confines of an RSS feed reader I suppose.

The site is worth a look at http://walt.allthingsd.com/, and hopefully is indicative of an increased zeal for online publishing by the Wall Street Journal. Under a thousand subscribers for someone like Walt is just plain appalling.

So thank you Walt Mossberg, I look forward to many more great columns!

I already know from this blog’s stats that a large percentage of you are either 1- not using windows at all, or 2- not using IE. But nonetheless, I implore you to get in on making history when the new Firefox launches in June. The Mozilla foundation hopes to set a new world record for the “most downloads” in a 24 hour period. I sure hope they have a lot of servers and mirrors lined up. Here is the official badge:

So go ahead and pledge to download the new software the day it comes out (which incidently has yet to be announced, but it will be in June.)  And if you have a site, blog, myspace, or all of the above- by all means add the fox to your site.  This could generate some great press and further the reduction of the buggy, unsecure, piece of crap that is IE.

So I had an idea as I was writing the previous post for a “TwitterStumble” type site.

Like Stumbleupon but with peoples home page links in Twitter. It may (probably already exists so let me know if it does.)

What is interesting is that the audience on Twitter represents the 1 million earliest adopters, and crawling through peoples links you are bound to find something good.

It would should be easy enough to build using the Twitter API. I just added it to IdeaCV: