Watch carefully, for it is a well known fact that Chris Pirillo may at any moment place a random shoe upon his head. If you are not careful it may even be your own. The real trick to Gnomedex’s success is not in Chris’s ability to disarm an audience with a shoe but in his […]

Photos have power. They can entertain, document, convey emotion, and form opinion. Without context the person looking at the photo may come away with emotions unintended by the photographer. Thus the beauty of art. Given context, photos can put a face to a tragedy that might otherwise simply be a distant statistic. That’s the power […]

The Associated Press thinks that Fair Use means it’s Fair to Use unless you’re a blogger.  They don’t like the blogoshpere’s use of too many quotes from AP articles and they want to set a policy of what constitutes fair use, as opposed to the federal government.
Check out this article’s coverage of the issue:
Jim Kennedy, […]

Today I received a MyPoints BonusMail email message with the unusual subject line “Tell Congress to Protect Seniors’ Medical Benefits.” That subject line immediately piqued my interest because of its political nature. I was, however, immediately troubled because I knew the focus of MyPoints is to award consumers points for their clicks and actions. Even […]

For those of you who’ve been around me and know a bit about my background, I used to be very politically active. While that activist streak has mellowed with my ever increasing age, every now and again I find an issue that is worth championing. When flipping though Techcrunch the other day, I saw a […]

Today was a slow day at the office. Of course one of the perks of this industry is the office is at home, or some coffee shop, or yes, even the beach. Things move so fast in this industry that I find myself thinking of slow sleepy days as a kind of luxury.
Fact is I […]