I love it when my dad writes about personal history on his blog.  He's a great storyteller and is extremely articulate about living and growing up in a generation...

Fred Wilson - my friend and co-investor in Zynga - titled his post on Zynga's $29 million financing Raising The Stakes so I couldn't resist titling my post Doubling...

Since last summer I've been talking about comments as the Dark Matter of the Blogosphere.  I use Intense Debate* for the comment system on my blog and have learned a...

Having just finished reading George Soros's latest book The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What It Means my brain is now full of his...

I've got some fun things for you to do this Monday morning (or at least to put on your schedule to do.) Want to learn how to run?  How to Go From Sedentary to...

My friend Larry Nelson who with his wife Pat runs w3w3.com interviews me periodically.  I'm always happy to talk to Larry - he's a tireless reporter on the...

My Sunday morning online scan of the New York Times turned up an awesome Op-Ed by Frank Rich titled It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid.  It's a scathing (er -...

It's unusual for a founder to write a long thoughtful post on the failure of his company.  Roger Ehrenberg - the co-founder of Monitor110 - which shut down earlier...

Who said the magic of Facebook is wearing thin?  Nah.  Cynics. One of our investments - Zynga - helped a nice young couple (Tyler Richardson and his (now)...

One of the questions I've been asked numerous times since Gnip launched a few weeks ago is "when is Gnip going to start working with Twitter?"  The answer...

Wallstrip 2.0 is out.  Fortunately, channeling the voice of the founder Howard Lindzon, they announce it very sarcastically on the homepage.  Welcome to...

It's time for another quick list of interesting things I found this morning on the web along with my occasionally witty commentary. Harmonix Party: Rock Band owns LA...

Last week, Me.dium released its Alpha version of Me.dium Social Search.  This coincided with Yahoo!'s launch of BOSS - Me.dium was one of the initial launch...

My partner Ryan McIntyre has an excruciating story up titled Sharp's Dull Service / My eCommerce Nightmare about his experience buying a snazzy new 52" Sharp...

While Amy assures me there is no correlation between "books" and "sun appearance", I have been reading a book each day and there has been no sun since...

Amy and I woke up at 5am this morning (which was still several hours after dawn here in Homer, AK) to head the big city of Soldotna, Alaska (population 4,087) to run the...

I've ranted about the TSA plenty on this blog - I travel a lot and find dealing with the TSA one of the more amusing experiences in my life.  So does Patrick Smith...

I've heard from several people that NetNewsWire on the iPhone is awesome.  While I'm not a Mac user, I'm anxiously awaiting my new iPhone (Ross promises that I'll...

If you follow me on twitter, you know I've been whining about the lack of sun in Homer this year.  We've been here for a week and didn't really see the sun until...

I've been really pleased with the way NewsGator's widget business has taken off.  Two years ago I regularly got questions from people about "how would NewsGator...