Yes­ter­day I put together a newslet­ter com­posed of recent blog post­ings from “voice” and sent it to many of my friends.  I wanted to remind peo­ple of what I am up to, and to give them a chance to share it with oth­ers.  I think that it was pretty well received.  To put it together, […]

I just com­pleted read­ing The World is Flat, by Thomas Fried­man, and I rec­om­mend it to any­one who is lit­er­ate.  This book is a fas­ci­nat­ing look at some of the most impor­tant trends and events of the last decade.  It paints a very dif­fer­ent pic­ture of the future world.  While Fried­man is not a doomsday […]

One of the worst things about being down­sized out of your job in the spring is that you miss out on the brack­ets for March Mad­ness. While I am no gam­bler, I love to fill out the brack­ets, and fol­low my pre­dic­tions to their dis­as­ter­ous end. Typ­i­cally I am done by the end of day […]

Thanks to Word­Press and other plat­forms like it, the line between dynamic blog site and sta­tic web site is dis­ap­pear­ing.  One of the great things about Word­Press, the con­tent man­age­ment soft­ware that I use to cre­ate this site, is that it allows you to build dynamic and sta­tic web pages very eas­ily.  It is also […]

I was shuf­fling through my Newsvines RSS feeds when I saw a name I rec­og­nized. It was pitcher Dave Burba. If ever you were look­ing for a sports hero to get behind, this is the guy. Dave is a 39 year old vet­eran base­ball player, and one of the best peo­ple you could ever meet. […]

Dur­ing my tenure at Reli­zon, I lob­bied hard for the com­pany to cre­ate a blog. I was unsuc­cess­ful. I am now no longer there, but that is unre­lated. So why am I writ­ing about Reli­zon? I am not. I am actu­ally writ­ing about blog­ging. My argu­ment to the com­pany was that blogs are pow­er­ful in […]

Recently I wrote a post about a Google buy­ing web based word pro­cess­ing appli­ca­tion Writely. Here is another exam­ple of a great web based appli­ca­tion. Thumb­stacks is a stripped down pre­sen­ta­tion build­ing soft­ware tool. It is very sim­i­lar to pow­er­point, with a whole lot less of the func­tion­al­ity. Why less? Some peo­ple would rather just […]