The Republican Noise Machine : Right Wing Media and How it Corrupts Democracy was a depressing book. I first noticed it from a post by Jerry Colonna. I had it

The fourth of July weekend seems like a good time to clean out the brain with some fun summer reading. I recently read my first Stephen Frey book (Shadow Account)

A true story. From the flyleaf, “In early 2000, the bottom dropped out of the life of New Yorker writer David Denby when his wife announced she was leaving him.

Dan Burgin – CTO and co-founder of Finali – has just started a blog. Finali provides next generation customer care outsourcing services. I’ve been an investor since they were founded

Earlier this week Return Path announced that it has acquired Netcreations. As a result of this merger, Return Path now has over 1,500 U.S. marketers as clients, 500 top web

I’m up in Alaska and have been sucking down books. Following are five flyby reviews for those of you with different tastes. Chirunning – Good book on combining T’ai Chi

My wife Amy sent me the following Voltaire quote (via A Word A Day). It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers

Rally Software – which we funded with Boulder Ventures in October 2003 – just shipped their first product. Nine months from startup funding to v1 – not bad! Rally provides

NewsGator announced our investment last week. I received a number of nice notes from folks in the RSS world. I also received a bunch of questions about why we invested,

I’ve looked at thousands (tens of thousands?) presentations pitching new businesses since the mid 1990’s. The vast majority of them suck. Unfortunately, it’s not Powerpoint’s f