November 29, 2006
Reflections on Mentors
Ben Casnocha is hard at work at his book titled “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley”; which Jossey-Bass (part of John ...
Overview of NCWIT
As chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology, I’m enjoyed observing the regular evolution of how we describe the organization. My friends Larry and Pat Nelson just ...
I’m Really Tired of Alexa
Om Malik has a great post up titled Alexa can be injurious to your wealth that describes a number of flaws with Alexa as a ranking of a web-based service. ...
Taxing Carbon in Boulder
Matt Blumberg pointed me to a post about the Boulderites recent decision to raise taxes on themselves by passing a carbon tax. The feds can’t seem to get around to ...
Blog Networks Use FeedBurner for Advertising
I’ve become obsessed with “Networks” – I’ve learned an enormous amount from coordinating the FeedBurner Venture Capital Network and the Colorado Entrepreneurs and Technology Network. Look for lots of interesting things ...
NewsGator Go! for J2ME Mobile Devices
A few months ago NewsGator released a Windows Mobile feed reader called NewsGator Go! I’ve been using it on my T-Mobile Dash and it’s fantastic. Today, NewsGator Go! for J2ME just ...
More on Intelligence Amplification
My partner Ryan McIntyre has a nice, detailed follow up post on Intelligence Amplification. Stan James – founder and CTO of Lijit (one of our investments in the Intelligence Amplification ...
November 28, 2006
What Is Obvious?
Our friendly neighborhood Supreme Court is having some fun discussing the current legal definition of “patent obviousness.” It sounds like there were some entertaining snippets in the conversation as the ...
Mate In One
I got a bunch of great suggestions on online chess from y’all - thanks! I’ve decided – at least for now – to play on Red Hot Pawn (my handle is bfeld) ...
Intelligence Amplification
I hate the phrase Web 3.0. I’ve never really liked the phrase Web 2.0 either, but I didn’t notice that I didn’t like it until after it had become used ...
November 27, 2006
Tyson’s Renewable Energy
In the “if you can’t beat them, join them” category, following is a hilariously ironic story by Mark A. Stein from the 11/19/06 New York Times Openers section.
“Tyson Foods, the ...
November 26, 2006
Online Chess
The Immortal Game inspired me to play some chess again. I was having trouble sleeping tonight so I hopped online to find an online chess game. Not surprisingly, ...
A Great Book Week
One of my favorite things about going dark for a week is that I get to consume a bunch of books. Since we’ve been back from Alaska, my reading pace ...
My Friends Were Busy While I Was Gone
I just gone done with my quarterly week off the grid. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays – Amy and I spent it chilling out in Keystone. I had ...
Failing Gracefully
David Cohen has a great post up about the failure of one of his startup - iContact. Even though iContact failed, David and his partners still managed to return 78% of ...