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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or to sign up for email alerts.Of all the things we are drawn to on the Web, none is more important nor down-right cute than the stuff kids love. The Internet was and is the most revolutionary education and communication tool ever [...]

I swore I would not write another post about the Presidential campaign after my last foray with the incredibly obtuse and “inspired” constituency of Obama over “Is this the best we have to offer?” Well, being a Web dweller to a large degree, not noticing something about Obama and having thoughts on the Web these [...]

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 of users are practically numbed. Well, the point could be argued I suppose, as there is still a good [...]

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 [...]