The Internet Is Like Your TV – Explaining the Internet to My Father
My father is 84 years old and grew up, for obvious reasons, without computers and the internet. So I sometimes get requests from him that I can’t accomplish because he does not [...]
Facebook is For Family and Friends
I have recently made a change to how I use facebook. I think it is a good change that I needed to do but I feel bad about it. I get friended [...]
Classmates.com – Community at a Cost
I just got an email from Classmates.com that someone has left me a greeting. And if I will pay them money to upgrade to a premium membership, they will tell me who [...]
Think You Know Everything There is To Know About Google Search?
I can google with the best of them… at least that’s what I thought before I saw this interview by Patrick Norton of Google’s Matt Cutts. I knew how to: do a [...]
LiveBar – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to a Demo
LiveWorld (where I am the EVP of Engineering and Operations) announced a new product called LiveBar today. LiveBar provides a simple way to add community to a content page, but we have [...]
Safari's Web Inspector
I was just trying out the script debugging in Safari version 4 developer preview tonight and got more than I bargained for. I was trying to find out if I had a [...]
Impossible
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C Clarke Watching this video of trick pool shots left [...]
"What is this website about?"
I have changed the slogan for the Amateur Traveler to: “Amateur Traveler – The Amateur Traveler is a travel show that helps you find the best places to travel to. It includes [...]
Brands Learn New Media – Hampton Inn Video
Hampton Inn has published a clever video to YouTube that shows that they are one company that has some understanding of this business of new media. It is a “Ballad of a [...]
The Past and Future of Television
At the end of June I had the opportunity to spend 3 days at the Socrates Society at the Aspen Institute discussing “Media and Our Conflicting Values” with a group of 25 [...]








