EarthLink announced today that it was bringing back the MindSpring brand. One of the toughest days in my professional life was telling several thousand folks that had put their heart and soul into the brand that it was going away. Then six months nursing it into the grave. I have mixed thoughts about bringing it […]

I have know of Seth Godin since his Yoyodyne days. I have always thought that he was a little too cute and pretty much tuned him out after the Purple Cow thing. I am sure Seth does not mind because he most likely has not thought of me at all. Well I was wrong. The […]

I just took Guy Kawasaki’s Entrepreneurial IQ Test. I scored 70-89%. Not sure if that is a B+ or nearly a D. The results page just said my score was “Solid.” My highest score was in the area of Product Development. Give it a whirl and let me know the results. I do think I […]

I have had a keen interest in the online storage space for sometime. It all started in 2003 when I had a hard drive go bad and spent 24 hours frantically copying my personal files to CD. That only happens once to anybody. I now backup things across my home network using SmartBackup for the […]

I am a big Apple fan with a PowerBook, iMac, and a couple of iPods. The thoughtfullness and design that normally goes into the user experience is unsurpassed. How did they come up with the iPod Hi-Fi? What were they thinking? The Bose SoundDock has it beat on looks and design. I just cannot image […]

Dear Elena is one of the most powerful things I have read in a long, long time. Wow.

Yesterday Om Malik speculated that EarthLink might spin off its muni wireless business. Om is one connected guy, but as the person who started EarthLink’s wireless business I have a different perspective on what they might be doing. One thing you have to always remember about EarthLink. They are not in the technology business. They […]

At all started when I met Joe Reger. Joe has an interesting data blogging company called Reger.com. I was talking to Joe one day about my personal Web site. It recently had a facelift, and while the folks at Brandego that helped me did a fine job, it was lacking something. Joe told me to […]