I spent Saturday at Day 2 of BlogHer, an impressively large gathering of women that blog, podcast, vlog, code and pretty much kick ass all over the internet. Everyone is doing their own thing, whether a mommie blogger or blog entrepreneur, they are doing it with passion and zeal because it’s become very meaningful [...]

Molly, who you may know as the author of MollyGolightly.com or as my wife ;> has some big news. Today at BlogHer she released her newest endeavor MollyBloom.com, a style site for everyday people.
Molly’s the writer of the family so I’m just going to use her words to describe it:
Molly Bloom knows style. It [...]

From the SmithMag blog who clicked it from GrrlScientist you’ll want to see We Feel Fine. Made by Jonathon Harris and Sepandar Kamvar, We Feel Fine is a lovely data aggregation and visualization project which scrapes hundreds of thousands of blogs and websites looking for the term ‘I feel’. It then captures how they [...]

Check out this ball that was sent to me through the U.S. Mail Service. It’s addressed to me at my old address complete with proper postage.
There’s no return address, but I have to assume it’s the handiwork of the wonderful people ar Meerkat Manor. Supersnail and Jackie, know anything about this?

Ryan Junell and Brian Christian released version zero of a deceptively funny video serial entitled The Vlogger. Check out episode zero. I’m craving more.
Big props to Dabble for underwriting the endeavor. If you’re unfamiliar Dabble just launched a nifty service for sharing links to web video videos. You can find tedr there.

San Francisco company Odeo is creating so many impressive technologies and features it seems more like a web fun-factory than an under-the-gun VC-funded start-up. They’ve done a stellar job side-stepping the spotlight that comes when successful people start something new and focused everything on their customers .While everyone was wondering how a podcast directory could [...]

Friends Chris and Tara have left their jobs are starting a new business. Starting and managing a business is /very different/ than working for one and failure occurs more often than success. Since I had no idea how to run a business until I started the last two, I made them a list of tips [...]

John Vars, my long-term business partner and longer-term good friend wrote an excellent yet brief analysis of the inherent facets of passion-centric web communities. Dogster and Catster are both passion-centric web communities and our whole goal has been to reflect the passions and interest of the site’s focus as purely and completely as possible.
I [...]

“The Internet is not a big truck, it is a series of tubes”
“Just the other day an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.”
Ted Stevens, U.S. Senate, R-Alaska
Chairman [...]

I‘m at Gnomedex, a geek/hacker vageuly freewheelin’ conference in Seattle. There have been a couple highlights. Here’s one.
Dave Dederer, front man of the light-hearted 90s rockers Preseidents of the United States brought his guitar up on the stage for his presentation and gave his perspective as a musician who is paying close attention to [...]