I’ve got a story to tell but I am too caught up in it now to tell it accurately. It’s that whole forest and trees analog. I would be accurate in saying that it’s a story about the American Dream, but that is a far too limited way of looking at it. More correctly, it’s a story...

The norovirus is an RNA virus of the Caliciviridae taxonomic family, it is marked by nausea, vomiting, muscle pain, loss of appetite and other, uh, even less pleasant gastric symptoms. The norovirus is responsible for up to 90% of the non-bacterial outbreaks of gastroenteritis (the stomach flu) in t...

Baher Al Hakim of CloudAppers is always developing really interesting pieces of software, that’s why I am happy to give him some time to talk about his latest release, an entrant in the data portability market, TxtGet. TxtGet allows you to make textual information like blog content embeddable ...

“Once upon a time, there was a caveman named Fred. (I refuse to name him “Oog” or something, just on principle.) Fred was a very bright guy, but he had absolutely no knowledge of the laws of nature. Please don’t ask how poor Fred managed to grow up this way: it’s a sad ...

Earlier this week I was talking to a friend of mine about why, practically speaking, we work. I don’t mean why we do whatever it is that we really do, I mean why we keep up our day jobs. Underneath it all, it comes back to a very simple precept — you need money to buy food. It got me thi...

Earlier today I mentioned on Twitter that out of the nearly 100 feeds I subscribe to and the 1000s of posts that are pushed to me every day, I was having a hard time finding five daily that I really wanted to read. This is a 180 degree shift from last year around this time. The content hasn’t ...

Dawn Douglass is one of my favorite entrepreneurs. She has been working hard on projects based around the idea that the web can be a force for good for creative professionals, looking to make money off of their talents. For me, she has been a lesson in how perseverance and hard one came help to brin...

It’s that time of the year again, the stockings have been torn down, the snow is falling gently over a pile of used wrapping paper, and we are all digging in for the last leg of the journey from the end of one year to the beginning of the next. As a blogger, I only have one choice at times lik...

Fight or Flight? Whether you are about to by hit by a car or by a lawsuit the human body’s reaction is just about the same. Our heart races, adrenaline flows free and in a split second we make a decision whether to stand firm or run for the hills, “It’s evolution, baby.” This...

Once a week, as a part of Startup Reactor, Mark Hager will provide us with a working journal of what life has been like working on his startup, Age In Place. All feedback is greatly appreciated. Our latest newsletter went out this past week and marks the debut of our first published submission from ...