Author Archive for Christopher Mims
Blogging Polling software Reviewed, Plus The One Polling Solution You Should Use
Googling ‘poll software‘ or ‘blog poll’ is an exercise in futility, which has got to be frustrating for beginning bloggers who want to incorporate a poll into their blog. That’s because, quite frankly, most hosted polling solutions are terrible.
It’s not that there aren’t plenty of poll applications littering searches (and the accompanying adsense ads) — [...]
How to Make Money Stealing Other People’s Content*
One of the reasons that fudged statistics and even outright lies have a tendency to spread rapidly through the mainstream media is that the mainstream media does something that the blogosphere is only just waking up to: re-writing competitors’ stories without doing additional reporting.
In other words, one way to rapidly and cheaply generate content is [...]
More Free Content On The Web Could Hurt Your Revenue — Here’s How To Fight Back
With more and more mainstream outlets launching blogs and taking down the paywalls around their news, what’s a blogger to do?
As this trend accelerates, and these sites get wise to the traffic and revenue generating potential of service journalism (which is all a blog like Engadget really is, anyway) there is a very real potential [...]
Invasion Of The Inexpensive, Linux-Powered Laptops
Moore’s law is at it again, and the latest sacred cow to be slaughtered by this force of nature is the notion that a laptop need weigh about 8 pounds and do everything that a desktop can do.
OK, so the notion of an ultra-portable PC isn’t exactly new–hardware manufacturers have been chipping away at it [...]
How To Become Your Own Wireless Internet Service Provider
It’s rare for Google to invest in a company–usually they just buy them outright–but Meraki is a rather exceptional company.
I had the pleasure of sitting down with the CEO of Meraki a couple months back when he paid a visit to the New York offices of Scientific American, where I work. Prior to this particular [...]
