My wife and I have a very specific travel style.  We like to go to foreign lands with only what we can cary on our backs.  We refuse to get professional travel agents to coordinate our travel, and we avoid America both in fashion and food.  No suprisingly, the planning process is requires a lot […]

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Google Earth, Google Sketchup, and other picture/satellite image search offerings are the latest tools that put visual reference to an online search, and help communicate multiple datapoints quickly (e.g. address, web location, physical location, and directions). Search is quickly becoming more information rich, dimensional, and intuitive.
What’s next? Search will very soon be a dimensional […]

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More on my blog entry from this morning…
Amazon announced over the weekend that they were going to be including podcasts from some of authors and artists that make up front-end of their long tail of products.  Examples include Rick Steves, Sting and some lady named Joss Stone:

Per some obscure blog: “Amazon Podcasts offers customers exclusive […]

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I probably read 100 articles of electronic news a day. This includes newspaper websites, electronic magazines, blogs, and research reports. Still, I plunk 50c in the metal box next to my house at least once a week just so that I can curl up on my front porch with a real newspaper.
The one thing I […]

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You can hear the blood curdling screams of the Hollywood lawyers, and the stomping feet of mobilized technology bloggers everywhere today.  All thanks to a simple post that broke the top secret Digital Rights Management (DRM) code on HD-DVD.
After initially pulling these posts from Digg that included the DRM code (allowing tech savvy folks to duplicate HD-DVDs), […]

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