Archive for January, 2006

Is the Web Breaking You Down?

Saturday, January 28th, 2006

Dave Pell posts about a question we should all ask ourselves, at least those of us who are immersed in technology, and the web a little more than some of the other people we know. “Did the Internet Destroy Me?”:

Did crack turn me into an addict, or did I just have an addictive personality […]

Verizon V Cast Music Podcast

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Verizon Wireless just went live with their second podcast. In this podcast I cover the annoucement of the new V Cast Music service from CES in Las Vegas. We recorded everything at the uber cool Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Check out the VZW podcast page to listen to the show or download […]

Brain Trip

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

My brother just sent this to me, its pretty whacked. Give it a whirl for yourself:

1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand.

3. Your foot will change […]

The Yahoo Strategy

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Frank Gruber offers some interesting insight into what Yahoo! is up to. He is right on with the social themed aqcuisition spree that Yahoo! is on, as well as what it could bring to the table for them. Check it out.

“…Yahoo might have another direction planned for its search offering that incorporates a social or […]

Domain Pimpage

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

The domain pimping business is still booming. Alarm Clock reports that Stanford MBA, Gary Kremen just sold the domain sex.com for $15m. Kremen was apparently scooping up domains back in 1995 and has already made a ton of cash pimping them off to other buyers. He also sold match.com to Cendent for $6m.

Gmail’s Delete Button

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

I never thought I would ever been saying this about a mail client, but those of you who use Gmail have had to have thought the same thing as I while you were initially getting used to the application. That thought would be, “where the F*~k is the Delete button?” Look no more, thankfully I […]

The Thinking Inbox

Friday, January 20th, 2006

I am proud to finally annouce that my company, Blue Sky Factory, Inc has launched a weblog dubbed, “The Thinking Inbox.” I’ve been looking forward to this for a while, and its always great to see things manifest. I used to write a blog called Media Mind, which served as more of my […]

Guidelines for Meetings

Thursday, January 19th, 2006

Ian Landsman links to Christopher Hawkins great post on guidelines for meetings. Talk about some good stuff. I think we can all agree that “meetings” can easily turn out to be great wastes of time, in fact ALOT of them are just that. It really doesn’t matter what you do for a living, chances are […]

Writing: A Year Ago Today

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

I came across an interesting find in my archives today. A year ago today, I posted (in a very “note to self” fashion) about how to keep myself writing and why I blog. I linked to a checklist entitled “50 Strategies for Making Yourself Work”, targeted towards writers, naturally. I found it timely since I […]

Recordings of PodcasterCon

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

For anyone who is interested in hearing some of the sessions at PodcasterCon, you can find a chunk of them on the blog. Here are a few links to check out. There is some really interesting stuff here:

Dave Shepard, recorded 3 sessions that can be found here.

Ray Moore sent in a link to the Copyright […]