Photographing Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse
NY Institute of Photography offers up a very detailed article on how to take a good photograph of tonight’s lunar eclipse. If it isn’t too ferociously cold this evening, I might give it a shot myself.
Yahoo has a new plan to compete with Google. No, it isn’t the much-hyped Panama. It’s a move to combat the perceived success at innovation at its Valley rival. Yahoo execs decided that they didn’t want to keep acquiring small startups as a way to get new ideas, but would rather incubate startups inside of…
I’m a serial entrepreneur at heart. An idea guy. An angel investor. I love diving into new things. I guess you could say I have Entrepreneur ADD. I just can’t help myself sometimes. A constant in my life since 2000 has been CustomScoop. But I have had other companies that I have started and sold off…
Are House Republicans getting ahead of the game when it comes to technology? Nancy Scola at TechPresident seems to think so. She writes that “Again and again, Hill Republicans are proving themselves more creative, more ambitious, and more forward-looking than Hill Democrats when it comes to the web.” Scola specifically points to the recent announcement…
One of my top employees, a veteran of startups and the startup investment worlds, frequently emphasizes with me the need for employees to grow as fast as the startup they’re working for. In his words, “if you want to grow at 40-50% then your employees need to grow at 40-50%.” It’s a powerful point, but…
Patrick Ruffini draws attention to President Obama’s election pledge to shed some light on the legislative process by posting legislation to the White House web site and permitting 5 days of public comment before signing.
An interesting one man band in Burlington, VT is setting up an online social network focused on real world social networks of yore: neighborhoods. Apparently some 20 percent of all of the residents of Burlington have joined the Front Porch Forum. To me, that’s a staggering statistic and once again demonstrates that online communications tools…