Why Aren’t More People Excited About Government Data Stories?
Government data as a platform for innovation is something I find exciting. Unfortunately, every time we write about it at ReadWriteWeb, very few people read our articles. Consumer data from private...
View ArticleI Don’t Care What You Say – I Think Foursquare is Awesome
I wrote about a really cool new feature on Foursquare today, called it “must-have,” and now am seeing a fair amount of cynical backlash. People get upset when you get excited about Foursquare – they...
View ArticleMy Thoughts About TechCrunch Selling to AOL
I wrote a blog post on ReadWriteWeb this afternoon about AOL’s acquisition of TechCrunch. As the first hired writer at TC years ago, I’ve got some very personal thoughts and feelings about it. I...
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Well Socialized Analyst Merv Adrian Goes to Gartner
Data analysis and business intelligence analyst Merv Adrian announced on his blog today that he’s going to giant analyst firm Gartner and his discussion of the decision is really interesting. He just...
View ArticleData: Making a List of the Top 300 Blogs about Data, Who Did We Miss?
Dear friends and neighbors, as part of my ongoing practice of using robots and algorithms to make grandiose claims about topics I know too little about, I have enlisted a small army of said implements...
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How to find good blogs on almost any topic (Updated)
People come to my site every day to find out how to find good blogs on a topic of interest – and I just noticed that this article about it was written more than 5 years ago! It’s time I update it. Five...
View ArticleWhy I’ll Never Redirect my Personal Blog to Google Plus
A number of prominent web personalities have announced that they are going to redirect their personal blogs to their Google Plus pages – because they get so much more interaction with readers when they...
View ArticleA First For Me: I Found News on Google Plus Today
I found my first news tip on Google Plus today, that Google had acquired Fridge. Dain Binder of Computer Sciences Corporation shared a link to the Fridge blog and that’s how I found out it happened. I...
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Sharing Secrets With Strangers in Startups
From the conclusion to an email I just sent an entrepreneur and incubator seeking coverage. Seems like a really cool startup and I’m not going to be mean about it this time – but I don’t think I’m...
View ArticleThe Next Era of Tech Blogging: 3 Things That Could Make it Better
Leading tech and marketing analyst Jeremiah Owyang wrote a blog post today that has inspired some interesting conversation; he argues that with the recent departure of a number of the key big names in...
View ArticleLet’s Talk Tech on Facebook
After years of resistance, I have decided to take the time to create a Facebook Page. It’s here. If you are interested in all things about the future of the Internet, and you use Facebook, I hope...
View ArticleWhat a tech blog post about a startup should include, according to me
I just read a really good post about a startup that felt unfinished, because there was no mention of critiques of the company’s product or business. I’m not blogging about startups these days, I’m...
View ArticleWe’re entering a golden age of news geekery
Jason Calacanis announced a new proof-of-concept site called Launchticker today. At first glance it’s just an overloaded Google Doc with a bunch of tech news summaries and links streaming down the...
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Blogging is alive, well and very inspiring
Above, WordPress founding developer Matt Mullenweg speaks to a full house at WordCamp Portland. I posted this photo on Instagram along with a note about how publishing used to be the exclusive domain...
View ArticleCould personal blogs be like the bullpen, to warm-up in for the big league game?
As social network publishing platforms get bigger and better, it gets harder to stay focused on publishing on your own piddly little blog. Could there be a symbiotic relationship between the two,...
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Life After Blogging?
I used to blog every day. Heck, I used to write 4 posts every day for AOL, 6 on forex as a subcontracted writer for a CMS company and 3 long form interviews (with people like Mark Cuban) per week for...
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How Some People Blog Every Day
I used to write, no joke, 12 to 15 blog posts every day. For a few years, when I was just getting started, I was prolific. Blogging has led to millions of dollars for me to get my business started. But...
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About this blog (Q4 2017)
Blogs deserve love. As simple self-publishing technology, they have the potential to transform the world. This one’s helped transform my life – but I’ve been neglecting it. I’d like to try to change...
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How to be valuable online in 2018
You know what kind of year-end blog posts are most valuable? In my mind, it’s ones highlighting the best or most successful content someone’s published throughout the whole year. That editorial...
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New project: Exponential View climate future
I’ve started contributing to a new collaboration that I couldn’t be more excited about. Azeem Ahzar and Marija Gavrilov have asked me to curate and summarize each week’s stories of climate change...
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