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In honor of the 4th of July, I went over to Wordle and created a word cloud out of the Declaration of Independence. Kinda cool: (Just in case you’re wondering, this is definitely not the geekiest thing I’ve done for the 4th of July. That’d have to be this.) Happy 4th of July!

Last night I was lucky to be invited to join a group of super smart people at an event hosted by Techdirt (and sponsored by Google). The event was provocatively (and with tongue planted firmly in cheek) titled “Techdirt Saves* Journalism” (see the disclaimer at the bottom of the page for more about the title)…

Just did a quick, unscientific sample of one blog – mine – to better understand where the stuff I write on my blog was producing the most engagement. Though I was peripherally aware of this, the conclusion was nevertheless a bit surprising: by a wide margin, there’s more interaction going on on Buzz than anywhere…

A handful of people have pointed out a glaring omission on the Google Profiles page. Here’s what the homepage for Google Profiles looks like today: That’s right, it’s missing one of these: Doh! I happened upon an extremely helpful post in Buzz today from Tom Sullivan. If you use Google Chrome, you can configure your…

One of the highlights of SXSW the past two years for me has been attending a dinner hosted by friends Rick Murray and Mike Krempasky of Edelman Digital. At this year’s dinner, I was chatting with Mike about politics — which is fairly natural for us, as Mike is a co-founder of RedState.com, and I,…

Fred Wilson has a good post up about how he approaches comments at his blog, A VC. The post was inspired by this weekend’s piece in the New York Times about news sites moving away from anonymous comments, and gives a great overview from someone whose blog regularly receives 100+ comments per day. Anonymous comments…

Update: GXG has a wonderful update to this approach, which includes Google Analytics tracking. See his post here. In case you hadn’t seen the news, the Buzz team announced the release of a set of buttons to make it easier for your readers to share your content with their friends via Google Buzz. You can go…

I’m excited to share the news that I’ve taken on the additional responsibility of becoming product manager on Google Profiles. Last year’s announcement about Profiles was the first step towards making it easier to find people on Google; my job will be to build out the next steps. What about Blogger? I’m not leaving Blogger behind;…

Visitors to the site will now see a new tab towards the top called “Best of” and I thought I’d document how I’m doing it in case others want to do the same. A couple of weeks ago I saw a blog have a link to a “best of this blog” page, which I thought…

Last summer, a former co-worker at Google joined Livescribe and sent me one of their Pulse smartpens. I was instantly in love with the pen, but then two minor issues sidelined it: 1) the notepad that came with the pen was a bit big for my taste making it a tad bulky to tote to…