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userfly is a new start up looking to help bloggers and companies understand their site...

“Animal researchers believe that play serves as a kind of...”
— Scientific American

Privacy has changed

No longer is it easy to be a hermit, not talk to anyone, or live a recluse life. And I suspect it...

“PR disasters mounted. One Comcast cable guy fell...

“Once you stop having to pay for movies individually, once...”
— Pogue, NYT.

“It’s a bitter duality: We scowl at those who decide to...”
— Mark Morford, SF Gate

Link: Silicon Valley’s Fork in the Road

“The survey of ten-year-old children found no evidence to...”
— Times Online Next we’ll...

Via Google Enterprise Blog. The post talks about the Spam...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25)

Wine vs. beer tweets

I’m surprised they are so close as I figured beer would get many more tweets. Perhaps wine is...

“Three things have happened, in a blink of history’s...”
— Nicholas Carr

Link: "Crap" iPhone App making $200/hr

blogging = thinking out loud

I was contemplating why I blog and among the obvious reasons, like to communicate or to express...

“Cuts in air pollution in US cities over recent decades have...”
— BBC News. For all the hype,...

“If you want to build a great consumer internet company you...”
— David King, former Google...

Live Streaming Obama Inauguration

There are two sites that I know of that are live streaming the Obama Inauguration: Hulu.com and...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18)

“Some 61% of those interviewed in the UK and US said setting...”
— Via BBC. I’m going to...

Work of Chris Jordan. Depicts 320,000 light bulbs, equal to...

Hate vs. Love as measured by twitter posts per hour today. ...

“Most people my age would like to just pay for the channels...”
— NYT article on Boxee. The...

My vote: disrespectful. I guess that’s the risk of...

twitter as idea exchange

My favorite part of work is ideation - the process of collaboration that leads to new ideas. ...

Paradox of the Web: Fragmentation &...

I was recently reading an article on Read Write Web about a proposed social media dashboard that...

“The Times Online suggests what might happen when technology...”
— NY Mag - The New Journalism:...

Random thoughts after viewing this video depiction of the history of the Internet… ‘Life...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11)

“Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can...”
— Time Online

Nine Inch Nails understands how to use...

I wrote recently that the Internet is a haven for fans because it allows such unique and exclusive...

Getting things done as a means to...

Why do we make lists, grind away at our desks and generally try to get things done? For most,...

“Folks, it’s not the ideas; it’s design,...”
— Comment on ask.slashdot...

David Pogue: Many Ways to Plug In to Tech...

Quality vs. Quantity: I want both!

With the avalanche of information coming at us from twitter and facebook updates, RSS reader news...

Best Places to Work (2009) via Glassdoor.com

“Internet users viewed 12.7 billion online videos during the...”
— comScore press release

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-4)

In this TED Talk, Benjamin Wallace explores some of the world’s most luxurious products all...

Ad Agencies Fashion Their Own Horn, and Toot...

“We spend so much time smoothing things out, we lose the...”
— Seth’s Blog

The curious nature of an insight

In order to do my job well I need to ask interesting questions of people and listen intently to...

A comedy group out of Chicago, The Vacationeers, made this hilarious, and all too true video. ...

“What we call “authority” is the right we give others to...”
— Doc Searls