As a presenter at the SalesForce.com annual conference (DreamForce ’09) I was given a $100 gift card for DonorsChoose.org , an organization that uses the web to match donors with projects in schools that require funding. From the project that I chose: “Help me teach the language...

I was in a discussion about QR (Quick Response – which are two dimensional barcodes), and was told about baseball cards using this data to generate 3D images. You hold the card up to your webcam, and on the screen you get an image. Some stats here, and links to campaigns by Ford and...

Clay Shirky has written a great post about newspapers and the future of journalism. The other thing that struck me about this post was the number of worthless trackbacks. I’ve started to look at blogs along a spectrum where the degree of interactivity is inversely related to the...

I was messing around last night trying to see what a Kindle graphic novel might look like: This really didn’t work, I had the PDF from a DVD that Marvel used to sell, but the two page spread is too much for the small screen to take. It will be interesting to see how long it takes to get...

This will only be of interest to the most hardcore video geeks (perhaps only half of the readers here). I just upgraded to the latest version of TivoToGo – the program that gets TV shows off my TiVo and on to my PC, and then converts them to a format that I can watch on my PSP (or iPod,...

This is one of the most interesting and well written articles on SEO that I have seen in a while: Aaron Wall on Google and Branding Not only does it cover current events but also has some history of the game. Popularity: 1% [?]

So I’ve had a couple of emails about discount codes and the like for the Web 2.0 Show, March, in San Francisco. If I remember correctly this is the show that I wasn’t cool enough to attend a few years back. I’ve already got another event on the calendar, but if you guys comp...