Apple Bloggers Network

For those of you that haven't heard of it, there is an aggregated RSS feed for several "Apple" Blogs. The link is here. If you have an Apple related blog, or know of one that would like to be added to the feed, email me here, and i'll get you an invite.

It used to contain several popular blogs, but one of the biggest ones, fakesteve.blogspot.com has quit blogging. So that sucks.

I'd like to light some fire under this, so subscribe if you'd like, and submit some other blogs to me as well!

Welcome, Ryan!

I'd like to take this time to welcome a new addition to the team: Ryan!

He's a welcome addition with a fresh new insight and already has a .me account so you know Joel adores him. Kidding, Joel (no I'm not). Look for his submissions shortly and please continue to enjoy dearcupertino.com!

Warning: Soap Box Alert!

DC Readers; sup?

I'd like to first and foremost apologize for my lack of presence on the site. Personal and professional obligations have gone and kicked my ass. I'm back-ready to not suck once more and continue to give you some random speculative nonsense about Apple Inc. and the products we love.

Apology over, I've seen a lot of criticism on various blogs/comment logs about how we don't update frequently. I'd like to speak on that:

We update as often as we get solid material. Remember, we're the voice for you, the consumers. Sure, we could pepper the site with our own ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc but then it feels disingenuous. We can't stress enough that this site is as good as you all make it. So, criticize if you'd like, but only if you're willing to take up the effort to let us know what's on your mind.

With the DNS nonsense dying down and the end of the fiscal year approaching, those on the team who work in IT can get back to doing what we do best; slacking off at work while writing DC posts. Solid.

Thanks,

Chandler

A New member of the team

Today Chandler and I added a new member to the Dear Cupertino Team.  Benny Ling!

Benny runs a blog over at www.freshbytes.com.au, so make sure you check out his posts over there.

Thanks Benny and Welcome!

Posts

It's not that we haven't been posting because of lack of topics.  Chandler and I have been very very busy.

We are both security/network computer people at our day jobs and since this DNS vulnerability has come out, I know I have been working a hectic pace.

We'll get back to posting very very soon.

In the meantime be sure an enjoy the MobileMe status blog started by Apple.  Awesome!  

DearCupertino,

More Blogs.

Thanks.

Some more administrative stuff

Two quick things, 

First, I added another blogger to write with me!  Friend of mine by the name of Chandler Bassett. He's a fellow Mac guy as well,  he'll be writing articles and taking feedback.

I'm also interested in adding maybe one or two other bloggers as well, to get alot of different points of view.  Kind of a Gizmodo/Engadget style of writing?  If you are interested, please feel free to email me here.

Second, In all the moving around that took place with the domains..  The rss feed moved as well.  So I put the RSS feed over on Feedburner for syndication.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/DearCupertino is the address.  Please subscribe there with your favorite reader.

Digg and Digg Buttons

First off, as you can see, I added Digg buttons to all the articles.  That way, you can digg up your favorite story or submission.

Second off, someone kindly submitted the whole blog to Digg already.  Click here to go Digg it up!  Thanks!

Posts

Administrative newsy note.

I'm not always going to just post ideas submitted, I am going to provide alot of commentary and what not as well.  I realize that this is a new blog, but I have been blogging for about 4 years now, and am well accustomed to it.  

But since this blog started I've received about 200 suggestions and emails, and am just trying to filter through all the duplicates.  I've posted a couple that stand out a bit and will be drastically improving the commentary as well.  Right now, there is alot to wade through, and will be taking the awesome hundreds of suggestions I have received and consolidating the duplicates, making sense of the ones that don't and posting commentary on the products or ideas that I have received that I don't think Apple would make, and why.  Thanks.

Moved the Domain around a bit

Sorry about that for anyone that was trying to visit the site.

You may notice a bit of a change, I moved the blog from my .mac account over to blogspot.  That way I won't exceed my bandwidth stats, and I won't have to do funky stuff to get all the custom javascript code to work.

(I love iWeb, but sometimes it can be difficult)

So, now the blog is here.

My First Day on the Job

Well I started this blog this morning, and, as you can see from the front page, I already have over 3000 hits at the time of this writing. So THANKS for the awesome response.

(Yeah, and being posted on Gizmodo helps a bit I guess)

Anyway, I have received about 50 emails full of suggestions, (of which I had to write them all back and ask for manual confirmation of a disclaimer!

I also added some text to the front page that gives me permission to use the suggestions that are emailed to me. (The disclaimer) The hard part for me is going to be sifting through the duplicates, but I guess that’s what I get! I promise I won’t blog about the blog or about me on here, (I’ll save that for my personal blog) this will all be Apple stuff, but thanks for the response!

Oh, and to answer the question I have received about 10x already, why did I name the blog “DearCupertino”. Because DearApple, DearMrJobs, and DearSteve.com’s were all already taken. Parked.

Welcome

Hello, my name is Joel Esler, you may recognize my name from such things as the Internet Storm Center, the Internet Storm Center Podcast, or my main blog at www.joelesler.net

I started this blog, (and subsequent projects stemming from it) with the intention of writing down all the things I wish Apple would build, or features they’d place into their products.

I don’t know if anyone from Apple will read this, it would be cool if they did, hopefully take some of our suggestions and run with them.

I use the pronouns “our” and “we” because I want people to email me with suggestions. I am of the reality that eventually, I will run out of ideas. I’ll need some more from you guys. So please, email me at the link on the right.

I see various other websites trying to do the same thing, but they are essentially parked. No one is doing anything with them! So here we go!

See you on the email!