Badger Thoughts

“The nerd ego is a dangerous thing” It’s not all that surprising that Stack Exchange founder Joel Spolsky felt compelled to take to the company’s blog last week to ask people to make the site a “welcoming, friendly place.” It’s not going to happen, but it’s not a shock that he would write it. In [...]

  Community management matters because it’s the most reliable way for customers to tell a company what they think. Surveys would be fine if the people writing them didn’t have a bias toward the company (as opposed to the customers) and its goals. Companies invest in it for that reason alone, though; having a clear [...]

There’s a fine tradition among writers known as the puff piece. For the staffer, it fulfills the requirement that one produce something the medium can publish on a regular basis without requiring a lot of difficult investigation or critical thinking; for the freelancer, it is one more article one can add to the portfolio; and [...]

The virus-malware news over the last week or so has been all about the relationship between the Stuxnet attacks on Iran and the Flame virus that exploited Microsoft’s own updating system and then turned itself off without so much as a “by your leave”. The reaction can be divided into three distinct types. We’re pretty [...]

or If you’re so rich, why aren’t you smart?** We wrote, in our last issue, about why we thought Facebook’s IPO was going to turn out to be a pig in a poke, and after it was summarily hammered by the market — and followed with the predictable filing of a lawsuit by people who [...]