Just for fun

The last two days in Cambridge have been unusually warm – one of the “Indian Summers” we tend to get here in New England before… Read More »Around the world for $0.10 per kilo

I spent most of last weekend hanging out at FOO Camp, the remarkable conference Tim O’Reilly hosts for 200+ geeks in the backyard of his… Read More »Notes from FOO

I’ve blogged recently about projects like TalkToUS that try to bring voices from around the world into the conversation around the upcoming US elections. Betavote… Read More »Global competitions

In early 1998, Tripod, a company I helped founders Bo Peabody and Dick Sabot build, was sold to search engine Lycos for $58 million dollars.… Read More »Tripod, and the very early days of blogging?

I had a spooky experience with AT&T wireless yesterday. I’m in Berlin, with my cute new tri-band phone, designed to allow me to roam all… Read More »Those big, spooky telcos

Wired reports that a growing number of people are mistaking stories in The Onion for “real news” and reacting with predictable outrage, protest, etc. Of… Read More »The Onion, on Zambia