I have never been to Chapel Hill, NC before, but I can tell you I am digging it already. I checked in at the Hampton Inn, and cruised out with Ryan Irelan for a great feast at 411 in downtown. Excellent food and great conversation. I also just checked out the PodcasterCon blog and saw […]

Typing from 35k feet on a flight from Las Vegas to Raleigh-Durham, I am on my way to PodcasterCon. Vegas was insane! CES is UNBELIEVEABLE, I could have definitely used another 2-3 days to get through the entire conference, but more importantly the Verizon Wireless V Cast Music announcement and events were excellent. Upon arrival […]

Back in action, the first podcast of 2006! This will indeed be a podcast filled week. This weeks first podcast comes from 35,000 ft,in the 15th row of flight 1224. Andy Mueller and I discuss our travels to Vegas for CES, our long conversation with former Attorney General John Ashcroft, Andy’s drive for sports betting, […]

We are here! After a gruelish flight that began at 6am in Baltimore, and ended in some lost luggage courteousy of Delta Airlines, we are finally in Las Vegas. We are chilling now at the Hard Rock, and waiting to knock out some interviews with the folks from Samsung. Then its time for some eats, […]

Dharmesh Shah co-founder of HubSpot a new startup based in Cambridge, MA has some interesting thoughts on the popular social networking site LinkedIn. Specifically, why he thinks Google or Yahoo should buy them.

I think LinkedIn is missing a major, major opportunity. It seems they are experiencing all the downsides of a “Web 2.0” […]

I have never done an end of year wrap up post before. You know, summarized my predictions for the year to come, or even analyzed the year that is ending. That being said, I can tell you personally, that I am glad to be seeing the end of 2005 and am welcoming with wide open […]

I was doing some basic housecleaning on the blog this week, and noticed that if you tried to subscribe to my weblog’s feed using Bloglines, you were faced with the option of subscribing to 4 different RSS feeds. To be clear from the start, the only feed you need for my weblog is the following: […]

Its now official, I am booked for CES in Las Vegas next week. Verizon Wireless will be making some very big announcements surrounding new products and services for 2006 at a press event being held at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino the morning of the 5th. We will be there to cover the excitement […]

I have been itching to play around with one of the new video iPods, in fact I was planning on picking one up this week. Needless to say I was blown away when I received one as a Christmas gift this past weekend. I am psyched, and can’t wait to break it out and start […]

Steve Rubel on the growing trend of RSS consumption:

“The reality is that millions of online users are already reading feeds. They’re just not aware of it. This is because RSS has been seamlessly embedded into the core “foods” we consume every day as part of a healthy online diet. It’s like our juice was spiked […]