Dooce as the Blogging Model

Monday, Dooce announced what we all should have seen coming: “The new dooce® community!” I read the post on my lunch break, clicked through a few of the brand new community pages, and signed up. It’s fantastic. It’s basically like a better Yahoo! Answers with added social networking features and the assurance that the people [...]

Yahoo! Mail’s Business Model: Charge for Basic Services

I’m feeling a little scandalized right now. I just tried to help my boss set up his Yahoo! Mail in Outlook. Should be no big deal, right? I envisioned taking the commonsense steps Settings -> Forwarding/POP/etc access -> putting in his Outlook email. Turns out this isn’t possible with the free Yahoo! Mail. You have [...]