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, …more

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 …more

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 …more

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 …more

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. …more

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 …more

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 …more