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6 March 2009 8 Comments

In Washington They Ask, “What Can We Actually Use?”

As many of you know, I’ve spent the better part of the last three months looking for sustainable employment. Historically (in the past two years), I have focused on technology startups outside of my geographical region, but, as time has gone on I have seen increasing value in planting roots with a local firm.
In this [...]

2 October 2008 Comments Off

House relents on New Media, adopts updated rules for Web video

Congressional use of online video, (an issue that this site has covered since the beginning) finally got over its last hurdle today as the Committee on House Administration adopted new rules allowing use of outside websites by Members.

25 October 2007 5 Comments

Rant: Silicon Valley Fenetics

Yes, intentionally misspelled. Phonetics.
Phonetics and mashup are all the rage in Silicon Valley web 2.0 start-up naming conventions right now.  When it was Digg, FaceBook and Skype, this was different.  It was cool, fresh and neat.  You could not help but ask yourself, what’s that?!?
Now, it’s not cute anymore (’sup Pownce and Jaiku!). Instead it signals, “Oh, [...]

11 October 2007 Comments Off

Shifting Technosailor

Long time readers of this blog probably have been aware of the consolidation of the niche that I’ve been covering here. In the very early days, the topics were all over the place. At some point, that seemed to consolidate down to mostly technology related conversations. There was a definite focus for a period of [...]