Writing

A few weeks ago my partner Albert Wenger wrote about Facebook being unbundled: "Facebook's Real Mobile Problem: Unbundling" where he opined that "mobile devices are doing to web services what web services did to print media: they unbundle." Then I [...]  Read more

"Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right" What if the value your service or company provides may not be the one you originally or naturally think it [...]  Read more

And so, the ol’ cassettes have no value to me anymore. Do I toss ’em and let them become more landfill? That’s seems kind of wasteful and un-green. Try to find a home for them with someone who still collects [...]  Read more

Just read a wonderful essay in the New York Review of Books from Jason Epstein - "How Books Will Survive Publishing." Mr. Epstein looks at the current conflict between Amazon and books publishers and Apple, over the prices of e-books, [...]  Read more

Information does not want to be free; instead it wants to be distributed friction free. What that means is that information - content - wants to be in as many places as possible, with many options for access, and with [...]  Read more

In the past few days I've seen a few things happen that demonstrate that what were once tech concepts or principles have seeped into non-Internet world, and are being applied in places maybe they were not originally intended, but to [...]  Read more

My grandfather Nick lived what looks in hindsight like a cliched life. Born in "Turkey" in the 19th century, as he told us (we only later learned he grew up in Jerusalem, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire, [...]  Read more