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I’ve been traveling the last few days, so the media coverage surrounding the escalating violence over the editorial cartoons depicting Mohammed had largely gone by me. In between meetings in Manhattan yesterday, I stopped in a Starbucks to catch up on email, and caught this headline at CNN.com which (for me at least) seemed to…

Will sent me a link to the Freakonomics blog post about how Senator Obama drops his kids off at nursery school, and how lunch with the Senator at an upcoming fundraiser is expected to go for $20,000. One man who won’t be bidding? John McCain. Ouch.

I downloaded beta 2 of Internet Explorer 7 yesterday, and I’m stunned. In less than two hours, it had replaced Firefox as my default browser, and I’ve been a Firefox bigot for more than two years. In no particular order, some thoughts on what IE7 does well: Tabbed browsing. Firefox had this before IE, of…

Michael Cousineau asks me why I wrote about Christine’s Q4 numbers. Mostly to provoke a discussion, which, thanks to Rich Miller and Michael picking up on my comments, it has. (For better or for worse.) It is certainly not out of animosity towards Christine (quite the contrary, I personally like her and did work on…

Some of the numbers are in for the 6th Congressional Democrats. And while I’ve been a supporter of Christine’s in the past, I have to say these numbers don’t look good: Raised: $68k Spent: $77k Cash on hand: $39k Debts owed: $39k Once you subtract debts from cash on hand, the Cegelis campaign has $184.54.…

Very cool. Business 2.0 rounded up its top 10 business ideas of the year, and puts RSS on the list as the “smartest technology”, “letting RSS do for online media what the Web did for the Internet.” (Click for full-size screencap.)

Back at Gnomedex, Steve Rubel and his client (Weatherbug) gave a presentation about using the blogosphere to counter a negative impression of their company. It was a decent talk, and I was impressed that they handed out registered copies of the “plus” version of WeatherBug. As I wrote then: Jeff’s got CDs of WeatherBug Plus…

2006 is the year of reconnecting for me so far. First, I heard from Femke, one of my close friends from the year I spent living in Dijon, Frace (1991-1992) — Femke’s from Maastricht and we hadn’t talked since 1996. She looked me up in Skype’s directory, and a couple weeks ago, I got an…

Forgive the multiple company posts, but our latest announcement is one of those deceptively simple things that takes a while to sink in. And I’m hoping that by documenting why I’m so excited about it that you might play around with it and use it (if you’re not already). Last month, we announced FeedFlare. It…

While listening to or watching my iPod lately, I’ve noticed that if my Treo gets too close to the iPod, it has the ability to change the volume. This isn’t a random occurrence, I can reproduce it frequently. It appears to be when the Treo is exchanging data — like a send/receive in e-mail —…