I was startled by this phenomenally wrong-headed editorial in the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond exposes his insecurities by arguing that Craig Newmark’s work in Craigslist doesn’t build communities because it threatens the business models...

I guess I should have caught this back on the 20th of last month, but I’ve been blogging here for six years. And living in San Francisco for a year now. I don’t think I could ever have imagined how much life could bring me just by me taking the time...

A few weeks ago, I had started an entry with the phrase, "Though I work in the weblog industry…" and I had done so mainly as a tongue-in-cheek joke about how seriously the blogosphere takes itself. I was talking to Matt a few days later and...

So, yeah, everybody’s gonna be buzzing about Google buying Pyra, but my take is that it’s not really that great a fit. Of course, Google bought Deja, which is the closest parallel as far as their acquisitions go. But Deja archived everything in...

So, we all know that diamonds are intrinsically worthless stones whose popularity and value are a recent creation, the result of a concerted marketing efffort by a monopolist cartel whose control on its market makes Microsoft look like amateurs. And...