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Many of us have recognized for some time that the Web is becoming what we might call “dummied”. For lack of a better term and by way of a definition, this simply means that the majority [...]

At a time when the world needs leaders more desperately perhaps than ever in history, what is being offered in the way of leadership? This will be perhaps my shortest post ever, but in a way the most important. The election of 2008 seems to me to be a defining point in history. Clearly on [...]

Of late I have noticed that there is a lot of negativity in not just my posts, but on the Web in general. This is not something that is pleasing or even interesting to me, but somehow a good number of my interesting people, startups and the Web in general appear shadowed these days. Why [...]

If you think about it we are all a product of so many variables, not the least of which is environment. Somehow we all intrinsically know this, but are so often distracted and obtuse as to just how much a hometown or place can be a part of us. For me personally, I know that [...]

Our end of the Internet, the information and networking side, has seen some interesting changes over the last year or so. One of the most predominant ones is in the way we are are driven to promote stories and those from within our networks. Social media sites other outlets were once fantastic resources for “getting [...]