When you start a business you love, you may be tempted to put 100% of your time and energy during waking hours into making it a success. Cali and I have done that with GeekBrief.TV. Even when we took time off from the show, we used the time to work on parts of the business [...]
Having personally done embarrassing things on the Internet, I can imagine what Daniel Brusilovsky is going through right now. According to Mike Arrington’s post on TechCrunch, an intern “allegedly asked for a Macbook Air in exchange for a post about a startup.” Cali and I thought of Daniel right away. Then Daniel posted an apology on his [...]
Most husband and wife stuff is private, but I disappointed my wife in a very public way and the only way to really apologize is to make it public.
One night last year, I think it was a Saturday, a tweet went out on Cali Lewis’ account about global warming being a hoax. It became a [...]
I ended my last post with a question: What can I do for you? Shamir Katsu asked what he could do to reproduce the “Geek Brief miracle.” If you already know the GeekBrief.TV Story, jump down to the last paragraph.
My wife and I used to do Web design and development during the time Internet culture was starting [...]
Coming back to my blog a few days after I wrote the piece about Yahoo!, the title struck me completely different than what I intended. Yahoo! podcasting site is closing sounds like the celebration of a Web site’s demise. I started thinking, in print, a negative story about Yahoo! can be a challenge [...]
Just read an article on Read/WriteWeb about Yahoo! closing it’s Podcasting site. I visited the site when it went live, but I didn’t sense a buy-in from Yahoo! There’s also this latent prejudice I have against Yahoo! that is kind of like the old prejudice against AOL…it’s for noobs.
It’s not bad that Yahoo! [...]
So Web 2.0 is about “user generated content,” right? Not really because bloggers in silicon valley and alley don’t recognize “users” who don’t publish from the valley.
We spoke at Gnomedex 7.0. One guy said he walked out on our speech because he thought Cali was pretending to be interested in tech so she could [...]
