Backcountry snowboarding is one of my great pleasures. It combines a top-ten passion - hiking in the mountains - and a top-three passion - snowboarding. California’s High Sierras offer dozens of peaks that hold snow past Memorial Day and more than a handful that reach 12,000 and higher will have snow cover well into July. [...]

    
Dogster was choosen as one of Time magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2005. This is starting to get surreal. I feel like a looping mp3 track that keeps saying “I never expected any of this to happen.”
Of all the dog-gone dumb luck (and more hours than I ever want to count of unpaid labor) [...]

    
Today’s sessions were much livlier, offered more debate and more meat.

Supernova is a gathering of Internet-focused people from all sectors, from EFF to FCC, from HOTorNOT to SecondLife, from VCs to the ATT. I was hoping I could do something witty with that list, but, uh, really, it’s people from all sectors.
As is often the case panels and presentations are hit-or-miss based upon what you [...]

[02/18/06 UPDATE: We ended up leaving Revenue Science about 2 months after writing this entry due to plumetting revenue. We returned to AdSense and after much work have reached new daily highs which I wrote about on the Dogster, Inc. blog.]
Web-based contextual advertiseming will soon give way to user profile-based advertising. In fact, the [...]

Six weeks ago Molly quit her job after a long and patient preperation period and has started off on a whole new professional path. In the last eight years her skills as a sharp writier, being a copy editor’s copy editor, and having a near-encyclopedic knowledge of music had only generated her slightly better paying [...]

On Dogster and Catster we just launched yet another purely fun, whimsy-rich widget which could even help produce some deep biological data about the nature of dogs and cats.
We developed a list of the five most common characters types and now let members pick on a scale of 1 to 9 where their pet fits [...]

My pet project Dogster was awared a Webby for Best Internet Community and we went to NYC to pick it up. I know for certain there are better community site, many of them in fact, but if the judges wanted to pick us, we’ll take it! It was really nice being there and getting kudos [...]

              
Last year as a bright-eyed netizen I was able to attend the Supernova conference and this year I’m going to attend again. I’m really looking forward to it. Supernova is put on by Kevin Werbach, a highly sociable internet policy wonk who has straddled so many sectors of the internet economy for so long he’s [...]