There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The first one is sometimes called the Great…

Andy Weissman’s blog has the tagline “Maximizing the serendipity around you.”  It’s a good philosophy.  I think one of the simplest ways to…

One of the most popular areas for startups today is “local.”  I probably see a couple of business plans a week that involve local search…

The other day I claimed that Twitter is supplanting RSS, and that long term that’s a bad thing.  Andrew Weissman had a very reasonable…

I’ve used Google Reader religiously since it launched.  I’m a few days away from quitting it forever.  Pretty much every blog I read tweets…

A commenter on my blog the other day (Tim Ogilvie) mentioned a distinction that I found really interesting between intent generation and…