Some time ago I realized that I like to write about nerdy stuff that isn't really programming and it's not really personal stuff either. It's stuff that is more lifestyle-oriented. That's when I registered the domain NerdLifestyle.com, but never really did anything with it. I also never...

I talked for a little while with John Battelle today, the founder of Federated Media (and co-founder of Wired , Industry Standard , author). CoasterBuzz was recently accepted into his "federation" for ad representation, and I have to say that he really, really gets it. We talked about quite...

I talked for a little while with John Battelle today, the founder of Federated Media (and co-founder of Wired , Industry Standard , author). CoasterBuzz was recently accepted into his "federation" for ad representation, and I have to say that he really, really gets it. We talked about quite...

Some time ago I realized that I like to write about nerdy stuff that isn't really programming and it's not really personal stuff either. It's stuff that is more lifestyle-oriented. That's when I registered the domain NerdLifestyle.com, but never really did anything with it. I also never...

Robert Scoble annoys me. I used to enjoy reading his blog, but it has gone to a point where he really thinks he has all the answers and is the smartest blogger on the Net, masked thinly by the occasional self-deprecating comment or whatever. But now he got booted off of Facebook because he was using...

Frans had a really good post about some things he has observed in the "alt.net" world . Honestly, with all of the blog posts I see on this "movement" lately, you'd think there was a cure for cancer just around the corner. As if it's that important. I think the single most critical thing mentioned in...

I gotta say, this is the most excited I've been in awhile to travel. I checked in already and got a much better seat, up like ten rows from where I was. Yay! I'm genuinely excited about Mix . The first one in 2006 was fun, and I got a lot out of it. I like these kinds of cross-disciplinary conferences...

I didn't know they were doing it, but they're screening [i]King of Kong[/i] here. I figured I might as well hang out and watch it and surf for porn on Microsoft's dime. There's a Q&A after the movie... and if it's the guys from the movie (the "champ" is supposed to try and beat the record at the...

Only in Vegas, right? I just sat down for the first keynote, and they've got a Johnny Cash impersonator singing on stage to warm up the crowd. They figured out that breakfast need not be overly fancy the way they did in '06, but cold scrambled eggs are kind of the opposite extreme. During the Q&A...

I'm sitting here in Nikhil Kothari's session on ASP.NET AJAX, and he's going through some of the more basic stuff to start. So I'm reading e-mail and kinda scoping out the room. First of all, there's a guy with a MacBook Air sitting in front of me. It's very cool. I couldn't help but notice he was looking...