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Hope for the Future

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Regardless of what happens on the national political stage, things are coming back on the business front. Particularly the future of the Internet and computing in general.

I went to a venture conference: People were positive again.

I go to the blogs: There’s new products aplenty, many with environmental and social progress built-in.

I go to the stores: [...]

The Real State of the Union

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

While Georgie spoke last night, it became obvious that he and the Republican Party are aware of what America wants done. The speech addressed those things (with a few notable exceptions) and contradicted only a couple things (like Iraq).

Problem is: that’s been true all along. Problem is: they say what we want to hear (mostly) [...]

Visions of Dot Com

Monday, January 30th, 2006

I went to a venture conference last week, the first in quite awhile. The last time was depressing. No talk of web or internet, except in a negative sense, no vision, and a generally a complete lack of awareness or imagination.

This time was different. The TechCoire (pronounced like “tech-choir”) conference in Rancho Cordova was full [...]

Visions of Dot Com

Monday, January 30th, 2006

I went to a venture conference last week, the first in quite awhile. The last time was depressing. No talk of web or internet, except in a negative sense, no vision, and a generally a complete lack of awareness or imagination.
This time was different. The TechCoire (pronounced like “tech-choir”) conference in Rancho Cordova was full [...]

The Secret Value of Business Blogs

Friday, December 16th, 2005

The Secret Value of Business Blogging

Those who followed the meteoric rise in the number of websites in the ‘90s will
see parallels in the similarly stellar growth of blogs. By some estimates, the number of blogs doubles every five months, and is approaching 15 million blogs worldwide — Which makes blogging the buzz, everywhere you go. [...]

My New Blog on WordPress

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Welcome to my new blog, same as the old blog.

I started this blog the easy way: using Blogger.com. But Blogger is weak in several key areas:

a) most important: categories!
Categories applied to articles result in named archives. This is critical for finding articles later, and for accumulating Google cred.

b) Pages: static pages that don’t appear on [...]

It’s a wondrous thing! The Worst President, Ever is helping a poor person!

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Well, I’m not THAT poor, but it is the holidays, and the web design business is always spotty for a freelancer, so the extra $400 and counting that I’m making from selling the “Worst President, Ever” merchandise through CafePress.com is very welcome.

If I go past $500, I’ll donate half the additional proceeds to a good [...]

Thank you all… and especially BoingBoing

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Thanks for all your comments, including the angry ones!

Yes, I am a bit of a hippie, raised in Northern California. I haven’t smoked pot since college, but some of my best friends do. I find it hard on the lungs. I miss the giggles, though. It also helps with anger management, so maybe some of [...]

People are Catching On

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

You still have to worry about the 37%, but the trend is in the right direction, Bush is in trouble.

Keep in mind, people, that Bush has not vetoed a single thing out of congress, and that means that any blame that goes to Bush, goes to the Republican Party as a whole. Bush may be [...]

10 Tips for the Business Blogger

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

Here’s some useful tips for business bloggers via Lifehacker.

And, on a related note: Ten Blogging Hacks from Micropersuasion.