While terrorists couldn’t seem to bring down Jack Bauer, the writer’s strike seems to have nailed him.  Oh well – at least there’s a back to the future version of

The ClosedPrivate Initiative made an appearance on Techmeme last week. Look for the release of the API in the next week or so. Many interesting people have collaborated on it, but

I woke up this morning to Northeastern sues Google over patent. Northeasten University and Jarg Corp have sued Google over a patent granted Professor Kenneth Baclawski in 1997. According t

You hear a lot about successful companies on most VC blogs. It’s a lot easier to talk about success than it is to talk about failure. Several weeks ago, The Enthusiast

Even though I thought Season 6 of 24 was a dud, I am still devastated by the news that 24 is on hold this season due to the writers strike.

If you have been following Defrag from a distance, Sean Ammirati at Read/WriteWeb has an awesome summary up titled Five Themes From the Defrag Conference. The Attention Economy Next-Level Discovery [&

That got your attention, right? Actually I am in a place called “The Palace” – a hotel on New Montgomery Street that I always think of as “the Sheraton Commander” [

Every now and then I read a book that is so delicious that I savor it. Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union was one of those books. I finished it over

If you aren’t at Defrag but want to follow along at home, there are two solid summaries up on the web. Jeff Nolan (NewsGator): Live From Defrag! Dan Farber (ZDNet):

Debbie Weil grabbed me at the New New Internet show and made me answer a question about blogging. Even though it is only 60 seconds long, I did manage to