I’d want to go private too.

Just watched the markets go down between 3% and 4% today, in response to “concern about a possible slowdown”. This is newsworthy, insofar as it’s the largest single-day move in a recent memory, but those who pay attention to investing are probably of one mind that day-to-day moves are not to be closely watched.
That being [...]

This is Video is Worth Four Minutes

This was posted a few weeks ago by a professor of cultural anthropology. It’s a creative, somewhat dramatic way of thinking about the web and our use of it. Take a look.

Aiming for the Middle

If you’re reading a blog (probably via RSS) about tech entrepreneurship, you probably know all about Twitter. You probably have used NetVibes or MyBlogLog or have a heavily personalized Google Reader. You install FireFox extensions and maybe write Monkey Wrench scripts to tweak your gmail settings or other parts of your web experience. The people [...]

Problems with Patents

The internet has really exposed some flaws in the patent system (and has just generally overloaded it). The theory behind patents (and intellectual property generally) is pretty sound: Offer the inventors of technology a window of exclusivity so that they are propertly incented to innovate. If no such protection is offered, an inventor will incur [...]

The Need for “Network Effects”

If you pay attention to the blogosphere you probably hear about a dozen or more new, potentially useful websites every week. The low cost of entry, the presence of increasingly sophisticated tools and the emerging ubiquity of the web have led hundreds of entrepreneurs to create sites, web applications, mashups, plug-ins and widgets that do [...]

New website for entrepreneurs

A few feeds I read recently pointed me to a new site called Startupping. I just checked it out and it’s an interesting foray into a very specific kind of online community, namely one focused on startups. If the site fulfils its vision, it’ll be a place to swap ideas, meet like-minded people, connect with [...]

Thinking About Music

I’m a big music fan. As painful as it is to admit, I got my first CD player twenty years ago and have been collecting music ever since. Piles of cases gave way to towers gave way to binders, then bigger binders. In about 2003 I had a big enough hard drive to rip them [...]

Initializing

To those who may choose to stop by once and to those who may linger a while, here are a few thoughts on why I’m going to spend the time putting up yet another blog, the value I hope to get out of it and the incremental value I hope to generate for those who [...]