This is Jeffrey Walker.  President of Atlassian, an incredibly cool and successful company. Hacker artist and musician. And also Cancer Dude.  His words, not mine.  He wrote them two years ago: “In preparation for this upcoming surgery, I’ll be working out every single day. I’ll...

What is Glue? Definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 1  a: any of various strong adhesive substances ; especially : a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous...

I ran  CloudAve, my main Blog Editor gig through Typealyzer, a service that analyzes written text and guesses which Myer-Briggs Personality Type the author represents, and it found we were Rocket Scientist.  Ok, forget the Rocket part, just scientists: INTJ - The Scientists The long-range ...

This fart-fight is just … disgusting. And here’s what I really think of this monkey-business....

Two seemingly unrelated items: Today Hitwise reported on how Google Maps is catching up on Mapquest, which once was the king of online mapping.   Perhaps more important than just the numbers is the source of traffic:  61% of Google Maps traffic comes from links placed in organic Google Sea...

Feedburner started as a cool new blog feed management/reporting service a few years ago, and quickly became a de facto standard.  A quick scan of my Feed Reader shows hardly anything but Feedburner.  Since Google acquired the company almost two years ago, we haven’t seen a lot of new ser...

One down, one running better than ever.  Thanks to the irony of TechMeme, the two news are juxtaposed almost side by side: Stopping development on Google Notebook – as several blogs point out, this does not mean Google Notebook is dead.  You can continue to use it as your scratch-pad, just donâ€...

An older post, If Scoble Thinks He Found Bad Startup Marketing, He Ain’t Seen Nothing received several comments, all showing the same structure, pointing back to Twitter accounts – some are clearly spam accounts with only this one update, but others appear to be real users, although I am not fol...

If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 – says Ed Bott on ZDnet.  Windows 7: Mojave My Ass –complains Jason Perlow. Dwight Silverman confirms: Sorry, but Windows 7 isn’t a return to Windows XP, while others don’t refrain from some name-calling. Sorry guys, you’re all wrong...

Global warming. The U.S. losing its edge in science and technology. A growing income gap. And what are the best and the brightest working on? -asked Tim O’Reilly, Father-of-all-things-Web-2.0 at the  Web 2.0 Expo in September. Do you see a problem here?  You have to ask yourself, are we ...