In September of 2006, I wrote a piece called The Future of White Boy Clubs taking to task Ryan Carson for putting together a speaker lineup for his Future of Web Apps conference made up entirely of white men (for the record, Tantek resents being lumped in as “white”; he’s says he’s T...

Carsonified, creators of the chain of Web Expo’s “The Future of…” have placed Amigo the Newsletter Ad service - one of its oldest yet currently crumbling services - for sale on Ebay. The company, lead by Ryan Carson, recently sold Dropsend, probably it’s most popular ap...

I find myself often going back and forth between working to live and living to work. As a freelancer you have the ultimate flexibility to just work when you want and not work when you don’t want, but at the same time you see the direct finacial benefit to busting your ass. It is not only what ...

When I bump into someone I haven’t seen for a while, I am often greeted with a remark along the lines “Oh, I’m surprised you’re actually in the country.� Har-dee-har-har. That’s my cue to point out that because going to foreign climes is different and exciting, that’s when I’m more l...

I’m at the Future of Web Apps conference today and tomorrow in London.  Here are a few summary notes from this morning. Note: this gets pretty technical in places. The mornings’s theme seems to have been about operations and development isuses. Digg Recommendations Kevin Rose, from Digg...

[fr] Mes réflexions sur l'expérience vécue lors de conférences comme LIFT08, LeWeb3, SXSW, BlogTalk, à la lumière de ma lecture du livre The Paradox of Choice. Surcharge cognitive et sociale, trop de décisions à prendre. Evolution également, entre les premières conférences où je ne conna...

Notes from Future of Web Apps (FOWA Miami 2008)… taken as a flow of consciousness while listening to Matt Mullenweg (founder of Wordpress, on which this blog is built).  Side note: Miami was a lot warmer than FOWA London 2007… but both drew equally awesome crowds and speakers.  Photos ...

Lots of buzz @ Future of Web Apps Miami when Kid Rock showed up with Eric Schoenfeld to announce his new TechCrunch column: “Str8 Out the Trailer.” Kid implored RDF & microformats nerds to overcome their tedious differences, just get in the pit and try to love someone. Share This...

I am in Miami. First off, I would like to apologize to the citizens of Miami for bringing the cold weather with me. It’s been cold (relatively) and windy since I got here yesterday. Second, I would like to apologize to my readers because the coherency of the following post will likely reflect ...

It’s Monday morning and I’m sitting here at Reagan National Airport awaiting a flight to Toronto. This is my last business trip of 2007 and… when I return home on Wednesday, I’m only looking at another two business days before I entirely knock off for the year. I’ll pro...