We have a bunch of cool companies. One of my new favorites is Sling Media who makes the ultraspiffy Slingbox. My collegue Ryan McIntyre sits on their board and has a

Amy and I arrived in Homer today. Yippee. Everything in the house works except the hot water. Oops. Guess we’ll have to figure that out tomorrow. Following is the v

I was recently asked the following question by email by a reader of my blog. Rather than respond with a one-off email, I figured I’d post my answer here since

I’m on the board of the Colorado Conservation Trust. I think it’s currently the most impactful environmental conservation based organization in Colorado – I am so enthusiastic

I’m at MIT all day at a symposium run by Eric von Hippel on Democratizing Innovation. It’s a classic “drink from a fire hose” type of day – short (15

Matt Blumberg – CEO of Return Path – posted a job description for a new VP of Marketing on his blog. Jennifer Wilson – Return Path’s long standing VP Marketing is [&

I hate Spam. Fortunately, one of our companies – Postini – does a remarkable job of eliminating it (turn on Postini, magic happens, Spam disappears.) Recently, I’ve been

As I wander around in summer school, I’ve been working my way through Brian Harvey’s Computer Science Logo Style 2/e, Vol. 1: Symbolic Computing. So far I’m finding Harvey to [

When I read James Frey’s first book A Million Little Pieces, I thought it was the most intense book I had read in a long time. Frey’s second book –

I’ve just agreed to be a judge for the finals of the Microsoft produced Imagine Cup Programming Competition. This is a college programming competition that now has over 15,000 students