I’ve been lamenting the state of Canadian telecommunications for quite a while now, but today marks a real significant step backwards for this country’s telecom industry. Rogers, a major Canadian internet service provider, has decided to limit their once-unlimited service to 60 gigabytes per month, and charge users a fee of up to $5 for [...]

On every post I write, I use Ultimate Tag Warrior to insert some Technorati tags, which show up at the bottom of the post. I’ve been thinking lots about metadata lately — and started wondering how useful those tags actually are (and how much traffic they actually generate). Wikipedia describes metadata as “‘data about data.’ [...]

At the end of a particularly insightful post on ClappingTrees, J.K. asks why the huge backlog of submitted sites can’t be opened up to everyone, Digg-style, in order to get sites approved (she’s referring to the DMOZ and Technorati backlogs here). She also points out some flaws with the Alexa ranking system (as I pointed [...]

I always enjoy anything that has to do with memes (in case you’re not familiar with memes, here’s a definition). I also happen to enjoy things that turn the conventional way of looking at things around. In this case, it’s Technorati. Quick Online Tips has a post about the so-called ‘Z List’, which was created [...]