I was listening to Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles yesterday; if memory serves, Slusher’s was the very first podcast I ever listened to, back around October 2004.

Adobe Systems Inc. is taking their Macromedia Flash Professional 8 on tour. The free “Roadshow,” reaching Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York, will preview the software to creative professionals, and demonstrate how to use new features in the program.

Sun Microsystem’s acquisition of Cobalt Networks in September 2000 has made it back into the headlines, as Sun files a lawsuit against former Cobalt and current Azul CEO Stephen DeWitt over theft of trade secrets and violation of a non-compete agreement.

Internet Explorer 7 and the Windows Vista operating system will support RSS, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks RSS feeds will grow in importance to Internet users.

As AOL loses subscribers by the boatload, the company says it’s on “offense” as it plans to launch a VoIP feature for it’s 41 million member strong AIM instant messaging service.

A site reader recently tipped me off about globefeed.com. Some people look at this app as a google map chat, however, the developers feel its much more than that.

Online options exist for learning how to work with ASP.Net and Microsoft’s Visual Studio, with free and fee choices available.

Users of Google’s Personalized Homepage can add their reading lists from Google Reader as a module and view their feeds from the Homepage instead.

A piece just sent to me as part of the Poynter Institute’s E-Media Tidbits email distribution stopped me from working so I could gnaw on it a bit.

CNET has word that Google is being sued for making billions of dollars in advertising by allowing child pornography and other obscene content.

“Our central file system was getting hammered in a way it had never been hammered before. The NFS caches couldn’t go fast enough — they did not have enough RAM on them.” Greg Brandeau, Pixar

Podcasting is a great new medium, but creating a podcast is only half of the work. Promoting a podcast is equally critical to its success.

A worker in Delaware not only lost his high-paying job with a credit card marketing company over his iPod and telephone usage, but his employer wants to take $300,000 out of his hide.

A lawyer for the FCC found a Washington DC appellate panel skeptical of requests from the Bush Administration for easier wiretapping of online telephone calls.

The User Account Control blog explains some of the changes to be expected to UAC in Windows Vista Beta 2.

Today is May 4, and that means April, and its special offer for a year of OneCare for $20 is in the past.

AOL subscribers continue to jump ship like seaborne lemmings as Time Warner reports the ISP lost over 3 million customers last year. A string of disappointing years totals to 8.1 million lost subscribers since 2002.

A moderator at MSGShit has put up a download of Windows Live Mail Desktop, the closed beta desktop client for accessing Hotmail accounts.

European online retailers will be able to reassure shoppers of the safety of making purchases with them through the EU-backed Trusted Shops “Seal of Approval” for online retailers, formed through a partnership with online payment service ChronoPay.

All of Microsoft’s online properties will carry paid search traffic delivered by adCenter, which has been in testing in France and Singapore, and is now setting its sights directly on the United States.

As a marketer, I’m fascinated by television commercials. One commercial I saw recently talked about how no one grows up wanting to be “average.” That really shoved the right side of my brain into overdrive.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a business philosophy, not just a technology – understanding your customers’ needs enables you to build better relationships and increase sales.

When it comes to analyzing your web site statistics, what’s infinitely more important than the numbers themselves is the actual trend that they portray.

This past weekend, I did something that most normal people do. I met up with some people for a little soiree, then went out to some bars.