The Modern: I’ve blogged in the past about my love of the Sonos digital music system, which I’ve installed throughout my home. As an avid music collector, over the years I’ve amassed a collection several thousand CDs strong. However, there are still gaps in my collection, and sometimes you just need to hear The Bangles’…
When I moved to Boulder, I found out that our house (and several blocks of our street) in Boulder, CO didn’t exist, at least according to Yahoo, Google and MapQuest. I filed a bug report with NAVTEQ, the provider of the underlying geodata and was told to not expect a fix for six to eighteen…
Jobs’ open letter, Thoughts on Music, published this morning, has brought the DRM-free music meme to the forefront in a way and scale that only Jobs can achieve. As Fred Wilson points out, perhaps Steve Jobs has had a change of heart when it comes to DRM. Or perhaps not. We should remember that Jobs…
Today as I arrived in Columbus, Ohio, I unwittingly found myself face to face with a bit of Americana: the original Wendy’s location. While I have been known from time to time to enjoy a nice Frosty, today all I took from Wendy’s was this picture, saving myself from the 430 calories in a medium-sized…
On Wednesday, after my partner Brad and I finished a meeting in Washington DC, we settled in for the long drive (during rush hour) from DC to Dulles International Airport. Sitting in the back of the car, we fired up my MacBook Pro, got online using my Verizon EVDO card, fired up my SlingPlayer, connected…
It has been a rough travel week. It started with my ill-timed journey from Denver to Harrisburg, PA on Sunday afternoon when the snow in Denver and Chicago conspired against me and trapped my plane on the tarmac in Denver for 4 hours while we waited for de-icing and runway plowing. Once I arrived in…
I was in Las Vegas last week with my partner Jason Mendelson for CES, my third or fourth (they sort of all blur together) trip to Sin City for this bit of consumer-electronic craziness. I just read Dave Hornik’s post on his trip to CES and felt compelled to share my thoughts as well. While…
Many blog pundits have predicted that blogs and RSS will ultimately kill the press release / newswire business. But as Mark Twain might say, “the rumors of the press release’s death have been greatly exaggerated.” At least thus far. The more accurate thing to say is that world of PR will be forever changed by…
As reported earlier this week, eBay announced it is buying StubHub for $310m. As a (small) individual investor in StubHub, I’m delighted by this outcome. StubHub is a great success story: the company was started by Stanford MBA students Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr in the dark days of the tech downturn and was able…
This news is a bit stale, but I’ve not been posting to my blog over the holidays. I’m waiting for snow tires to be put on my car (about time given the two blizzards that have hit Colorado in the last few weeks) so I had some time to kill. Time for a blog post….