I’m sitting with Mike Arrington right now (the guy who does TechCrunch) and he and Jason Calacanis are starting a new “demo” conference. Here’s Jason’s writeup. Here’s Mike’s.

As Ask.com drops off some new Smart Answers for the month of February, they also let out a cry of “Tetsuoooooo!” which of course can only be answered with “Kanedaaaaaaa!”

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been relentless in its pursuit of those individuals found to be taking part in peer-to-peer music sharing. Numerous lawsuits have been filed by the RIAA, most of which are settled out of court for an arbitrary fee.

The buzz surrounding the announcement of Apple’s iPhone has reached feverish proportions throughout the blogosphere in recent weeks. Not wanting to be left out of the smartphone party, rumors are now circulating that Microsoft is working on plans to develop its own Zune branded cellular phone.

Mike Torres writes about a hidden Windows Vista option that gives you a much more powerful search in Windows Vista.

BIGResearch’s latest simultaneous Media Usage Study raises a big flag for marketers and PR practitioners: you’re operating in a new reality of a consumer controlled communication model.

In today’s episode of “bloggers take sides on some issue” I present the Flickr Old Skool Debate.

As I continue my journey through the terminology difficulties of modern IT management, one issue that keeps coming up (as recently as this week’s IQPC IT Governance conference, where I spoke) is the question:

Our favorite three-letter acronym has been adopted by Dave Sifry as the newest feature on his blog search site, giving it a little social media flavor by allowing people to write about current topics and others to vote on the best commentary.

Recently I was pointed to a new blog “Marriott on the move“, started by the CEO of Marriott Properties, Bill Marriott.

Just when you thought it was safe to write a check for stock investing, the options backdating scandal hits.

Google recently announced plans to open a brand new server facility in North Carolina, a move expected to inject new life into the local and regional economy. The company’s negotiating tactics, however, are now coming under scrutiny as state documents from the proceedings are now becoming available.

Finally Microsoft gets to snicker at Google a little. Both companies planned Sydney flyovers for Australia Day to snag aerial snapshots of Australians doing Australian things. But due to a miscommunication between Google and Sydney air traffic controllers, the search company ended up a bit late to the prom.

Penguin Books and De Montfort University have launched an intriguing new project that they’ve described as “an experiment in creative writing and community.” The experiment’s objective: for a large group of volunteer writers to create a single, preferably coherent novel. Oh, and the title of the “wikinovel” will be A Million Penguins.

SuperPages.com wants local business reviewers and is willing to pay any amount of vanity for them. The online directory unveiled its “Reviewer of the Week” program, an effort to meld local search and social networks.

Imagine buying a car before you have had driving lessons of any kind, and then sitting behind the wheel trying to figure out how to get you and the car back home.

You would likely fail. Not only that, but you would most likely have an accident by either running into another car, or into a wall or something. That’s not how to learn to drive.

Someone I met on the Internet went M.I.A. He recently turned up again, to explain he had been in a serious accident in which he suffered a life threatening injury.

Microsoft has announced that extended support for Windows XP Home will be extended five extra years, reaching all the way to April 2014.

MyBlogLog has been taking the blogosphere by storm the past few months, even before the acquisition by Yahoo.

TechCrunch maven Michael Arrington and former Netscape head Jason Calacanis will team up to run the TechCrunch20 Conference, where tech startups will be highlighted based on merit instead of fees. Their choice of venue to announce the new show just happened to be the first day of DEMO, a conference that highlights startups and charges a hefty fee for them to attend.

If you want to make your website validate the WAI or Section 508 accessibility guidelines, you have to separate adjacent links with more than white space.

I submitted an article written in 2005 to Netscape (for those of your outside of the social media world, Netscape a runs “submit and vote on news site” like Digg).

Like many of you, I suspect, I found Awaiting the Day When Everyone Writes Software (you may need to register) in the New York Times interesting.

I had this post in my drafts for over 10 days now.