Dan Fost of the SF Chronicle starts off his article, Web 2.0 has a local address, with Rubyred’s cereal bar. Here are some of the juicy bits:
The unofficial meal of the Internet comeback is a bowl of Kellogg’s Crispix and some fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice - served with pleasure at the Monday morning “cereal [...]
Congratulations to our friend and office-mate, Maggie Mason, who just re-launched her famous blog, Mighty Girl with a fresh, peppy design and new functionality. I’m honored to have worked with her in putting it together.
She’s a sharp girl, that Maggie.
How annoying are those web form Turing tests* that make you copy illegible characters into a field to prove that you’re an actual human. There’s a new solution: kitties.
The KittenAuth Test prompts users to distinguish between the feline cute and various other shades of cute (e.g. owls, donkeys, hamsters, etc.). Besides being fun, it [...]
Why did I give my blog the tagline, “In defense of irrational exuberance?” I don’t argue on behalf of investment bubbles, though they can have definite benefits down the road (for instance, the cheap, ubiquitous availability of broadband connectivity fueled by the over-investment in fiber networks). Nor would I ever suggest that self-delusion is a [...]
For better or worse, there is now a companion blog to Valleyschwag.
We’ll be filing dispatches on the state of the tech industry solely based on its schwag. Depending on your disposition this is either incredibly cynical or deeply enlightened. Or just plain self-indulgent.
We like indulgence.