10/07 Now I am getting nervous… Cramer wants me to sell everything? — Check out this post Henry Blodget: Should You Really Panic And Sell Everything Like Cramer Says?: > "On the Today Show Monday morning, Jim Cramer told investors to sell everything and get out of the stock market. A Wall Street friend described this as the market’s "Munchian scream moment."" (from: from Huffington Post: Front Page) …

10/01 Esther Dyson on the Coming Ad Revolution — Esther Dyson wrote this very interesting Wall Street Journal article about how online advertising is changing. This article is very relevant to my new product, SWIFT, which I have hinted about ...

09/28 Big Numbers — Like everyone else, I’ve been following the drama on Wall Street, Main Street, Washington DC and so on. Bless their hearts, they have posted a document called“firstdraft.pdf” to allow the masses to examine the bill which will authorize the bailout (a bit of irony?) It’s way over my head, but a quick scan does reveal some rather  large numbers being bandied about… Wow!!!!

09/19 A couple of interesting articles — A very interesting article in Edge.org (by the way, an always interesting site.) This one is called Moral Psychology and the misunderstanding of religion: > “I study morality from every angle I can find. Morality is one of those basic asp...

09/17 Surprising and against conventional wisdom: Americans still love to buy DVDs — Interesting article about the sale of DVDs in Silicon Alley Insider: > “Just a reality check on the video download/rental business: There really isn’t one yet. At least not compared to good old-fashioned DVD sales and rentals.” (from “Forget iTunes: Americans still love to buy DVDs“) Interesting article. I wonder, what about music CDs?

09/10 iTunes 8 Genius is calling home — I just downloaded the new ITunes 8. It has this new thing called the iTunes Genius which seems like it is going to help me create play lists or something. Maybe it’s gonna out Pandora Pandora or Last.FM. Don’t know exactly what I am getting but I pushed the big red button and got it enabled. I got c...

09/09 Sign the letter! — Maybe this is one more of the futile petitions that we send around and to each other, but the goal rings true to me: > “It is critical that our policymakers turn their attention to our deteriorating financial health which, if not addressed responsibly and quickly, will cause severe economic hardship for our nation and its citizens, especially the young and future generations.” (from “Letter to Candidates”) Read the whole thing here, and if you like, sign it!

09/08 Ambient Awareness: on being ‘digitally’ close — A good article in the New York Times Magazine about the so-called ‘ambient awareness’ phenomenon: > “Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much ...

09/05 Indeed, the new Microsoft/Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ad makes no sense! — Gizmodo shows the first ad, and even though I love Jerry and like Bill, it, indeed, makes no sense. Maybe I am just to literal minded.

09/05 Beware of Freeconomics — The quote below is from this post from ReadWriteWeb > While we are certainly seeing more and more examples of products being given away for free, it is **not necessarily a good thin...

09/05 Where can I find non-shrill political coverage? — I read the New York Times, and magazines like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, and web sites like Salon. Each of these, IMO are relatively thoughtful and interesting and a good way to keep...

09/02 TSA and photo IDs — An interesting article from Bruce Schneier about why he believes that TSA requirement of photo IDs is a waste of time: > “The problem is that it is unverified passenger names that get checked against the no-fly list. At security checkpoints, the TSA just matches IDs to whatever is printed on the boa...

09/02 So it’s true: Google is releasing a new browser to compete with IE and FireFox — (updated at 12:08pm Sept 2) > “In a posting on a company site Monday, Google indicated that a version of the software, called Chrome, would be available for download on Tuesday. It said the software is designed to make it faster to browse the Web and easier to run applications without downloading ...

08/30 Good news for Australian single men? — An analysis of new census figures has shown that Australia is suffering from an unprecedented “man drought”, from BBC.

08/30 Cloud Computing case studies — I’ve written about some of the considerations that go into the choice between physical infrastructure and new SAAS services such as Amazon’s S3 and EC2. I also covered [why the fact that you are comfortable relying on a hosting provider for rack mounted...

08/30 Two examples of great Web 2.0 by USA government — Who said “your TSA don’t dance and your USPTO don’t rock and roll?” (One free copy of BlogBridge for all of you who get the reference without using Wikipedia) Here are two cool examples. First up, the TSA ([Transportation Security Administration) now has a blog that seems to be much more than a ...

08/25 Heard of Yandex? — From TimesOnline, a good reminder to not forget that we do live in a USA bubble sometimes, and don’t pay enough attention to the rest of the world: “A little over two decades later, Arkady Volozh is the chief executive and one of the founders of Yandex, Russia’...

08/22 Mac OS X Virus? — Take a look at that very weird looking Mac menu. I didn’t (knowingly) do anything to get it and yet every time I launch a new application it’s menus are corrupted that way. All of its menus, and with fancy animated graphics. Anyone know what’s going on? I just told someone today that Mac’s NEVER have viruses!

08/22 5 things to keep in mind when relying on S3 and similar SAAS services — On a project I worked on recently, I asked myself whether I should make one or more of Amazon’s awesome web services (AWS – Awesome Web Services) a mission critical part of the infrastructure of the product. I wrote yesterday about the [considerations that go into deciding to rely on services like A...

08/21 Democrat vs. Democratic — I wonder about this. Why is it considered a slur to use Democrat as an adjective? For example, “The Democrat plan is to …” vs. “The Democratic plan is to…” Oddly enough, do my ear or my mind, Democrat does sound harsh and evil, but I can’t put my finger on why. Just wondering…