Last fall, I spoke at the Internet Summit on a panel with Richard Jalichindra, the CEO at Technorati. They had recently relaunched Technorati, and his continuation of founder David Sifry’s “state of the blogosphere” was a good take on what was new on blogs. His data mirrored what we see at Blogger: there are more…

I don’t upload a lot of video to YouTube, but that’s going to change. Two nights ago, as we were preparing to launch the FTP Migration Tool, I wanted to do a quick video walk-through to show users how it would work. The video’s 8 minutes long, and I was excited to get it done…

Kevin Kuwik, one of my brother’s best friends from Notre Dame, is a remarkable guy. He’s currently a basketball coach at Ohio State who served in Iraq (more on that here), but that’s not what I’m writing about today. Last year, on the day before his brother’s wedding in Buffalo, Kevin’s girlfriend was flying to…

Almost exactly four years ago (crap, seems like yesterday!) Fred wrote about his first experience with Sonos. He summed up the experience pretty well: [The Sonos system] delivered a premium experience for me and if you are looking for a simple, elegant solution for integrating digital music and music services like Rhapsody and Internet radio…

When I ran the publisher team at FeedBurner, I made it a habit to watch for any discussions about FeedBurner. Back in those days, there was a fair amount of concern about using a third party to syndicate your RSS feed – would we force ads into every post? Would we start charging? What if…

Reading Marc Ambinder’s recap of President Obama’s “question time” at a GOP event today, it reminded me of one of my favorite West Wing scenes: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT0AP3Nqvuo&hl=en_US&fs=1&&w=480&h=385] I’ve refrained from discussing politics on this blog for a long time, which surprises many who followed me through the 2004 and 2006 election, and to a lesser…

Several years ago, I put my CV online as a wiki. It started as a way to just catalog the speeches I’d given, articles I’d written, etc., if for no other reason to have it all in one place. As I noted at the time, one of the most popular pages on my blog was…

Just finished posting on Blogger Buzz about a fairly significant product decision: we’re shutting down FTP publishing at Blogger. For the vast majority of Blogger users (99.5% of them, to be exact), this is a non-issue. But for the .5% who continue to use FTP, this is going to be a non-trivial issue. Once it…

We’ve been hinting at these for a while, and we were this close to getting Pages out before the holidays… but at long last they’re here. To say that most Blogger users wanted stand-alone pages on their blogs would be an understatement. I created a couple pages tonight – in addition to the obvious About Me…

A number of people have asked about my Nexus One – did I like it, should they get one, any tips… figured it was a good time to jot down some thoughts. Big, honkin’ disclosure: I received this phone for free, and I work for Google. Bit of background: as is now well known, Google…