Part of the research I am doing for the book involves trying to get my head around the concept of “Big Data,” given the premise that we are in a fundamental shift to a digitally driven so...
Dinner with friends and a night in the band room proved bountiful when it came to trying new wines this week. I tasted this Blackbird Vineyards Arriviste – a Rose that the gals had. They sure l...
A good push on a demo’d 29er Marin this morning. A few highlights: Mt. Tam, where I was headed, from Blithedale Ridge. Tons of folks at West Point Inn today, which is about 2/3rds up Tam. It wa...
TamWFall Courtesy Mt Tam this morning. Sorry if it takes a bit to load, this is my first video post. If anyone knows how to make it just play natively, I’d love the tip. I tried it from ...
The headlines about Facebook’s IPO – along with questions about its business model – are now officially cringeworthy. It’s an ongoing, rolling study in how society dige...
Last night on a whim I asked folks on Twitter if they had a home phone – you know, a “hard line” – the k ind of communications device that used to be ubiquitous, but seem incr...
Remember, Searchbloggers, I’ve got a new RSS feed that you can consume so as to miss these non-work related posts. A few pics from a 25-mile mountain bike ride I just completed with my son… On ...
Remember, Searchbloggers, I’ve got a new RSS feed that you can consume so as to miss these non-work related posts. Meanwhile, it was a busy week, with the CM Summit in New York. Here are a few ...
Last December I posted on “The Internet Big Five,” noting their relative strengths and the market cap of each. Since that time, the Five have only gotten stronger, adding a cumulative $27...
Penner-Ash Willamette Valley 2009 Pinot drank VERY well last week.
Pardon the site-specific interruption, but as part of my ongoing quest to keep my content here on my own site, I’ve begun posting pictures of stuff here that I’d otherwise put on Instagra...
The remarkable news today that, among other important board moves, Ross Levinsohn will take over as interim CEO at Yahoo may well mark the end of an era – should his tenure stick, perhaps we ca...
Last Friday Businessweek ran a story on Diaspora, a social platform built from what might be called Facebook anti-matter. It’s a great read that chronicles the project’s extraordinary hig...
A very happy Friday night with my wife, mother in law, and kids (and tomatoes, kale, wild rice, et al), made round by this MacRostie Pinot, 2007. Yippee, it’s the weekend!
The Soho Skylight, awaiting its incarnation as site for the 7th annual CM Summit. As New York City gears up for its annual Internet Week, the team at FMP has been diligently working away on creating ...
From our pals at Belle Gloss. This is reasonably priced and rarely disappoints. And I broke into my stash of Radio Coteau last night and tried the 2010 La Neblina Pinot. One word: Yep. My RSS ...
Larry Lessig is an accomplished author, lawyer, and professor, and until recently, was one of the leading active public intellectuals in the Internet space. But as I wrote in my review of his last bo...
Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget has been on my reading list for nearly two years, and if nothing else comes of this damn book I’m trying to write, it’ll be satisfying to say tha...
As readers are realizing, I’m posting photos here first, then using this as the basis for exports to other services like Twitter or Pinterest. It will be a few days before I have a “non p...
It’s all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead. Or put more accurately, the world of “boxes and rectangles” is dead. No one pays attention to banner ads, the reasoni...
In a previous post, I said I’d be posting pictures here, and it’s been a pretty good week in the world of wine. Two of particular note: These guys have all sorts of varietals and r...
SF from top of Mt Tam yesterday (a test of my remote photo posting skills)
A wine we enjoyed last weekend. I’ve become increasingly troubled by the “data traps” springing up all over AppWorld and the Internet, and while I’ve been pretty vocal about t...
Ever since the Pebble watch became an cause célèbre in tech circles for its kickass Kickstarter moves (it’s raised almost $7mm dollars and counting), something’s been nagging me about the...
I’m a bit behind on my snail mail, so to procrastinate from writing anything useful on the book, I went through a pile that’s accumulated over the past week. Perhaps the most interesting ...
Neon Indian at Coachella last weekend. Last weekend I had the distinct pleasure of taking two days off the grid and heading to a music festival called Coachella. Now, when I say “off the...
A few weeks ago I ventured to our nation’s capital to steep in its culture a bit, and get some first hand reporting done for the book. I met with about a dozen or so folks, including several sc...
(I promised a bit more color commentary on Larry Page’s 3500-word missive posted last week, and after reading it over a few more times, it seems worth the time to keep that promise. I wrote thi...
Waaaay back in January, I rolled out my annual predictions. Thanks to our pals at Facebook, a few of them are now pretty much in the bag. I may have to start doing these things monthly, given the pac...
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