With the start of each new year, I try to take a few moments to step back and plan out where and how my family and I can donate. Time we don’t have a ton of right now, but even in these tough times we can spare some dollars to help out. I like... Read more...

While the collapse of the print news business has been forecast for a long while now, it’s still shocking to see the speed at which it looks like it’s starting to happen. 2009 really may end up being the year of the apocalypse for the dai... Read more...

After reading Paul Kedrosky’s commentary today (The Twitter Lesson: No Business Plan Please) on how Twitter succeeded in securing VC money because of, not in spite of, their complete lack of a business plan, I was struck by a thought. Twi... Read more...

I’m noticing more and more bits of backlash against “shiny new thing” obsessions by many bloggers of late. Scoble is a particularly notable target, both for his audience size and the outsized nature of his enthusiasm for the latest ... Read more...

I posted the following comment to a post on TechCrunch, and am reposting it here given I’ve been meaning to say something for a while about this “OMG Facebook is the new Web!” hype storm that is swamping the blogosphere of late: @76... Read more...