Google is Thinking Big. Really Big.
The latest buzz is about a big, big idea that will be coming out of Google in the coming months. They are planning a new internet. Here is what Om Malik wrote in Business2.com today. “What if Google wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if […]
Meg Sanders’ Ride Is Sadly Over
Meg Sanders loved to ride, and died on her bike this week in Northampton, MA. The sad story was featured in the Daily Hampshire Gazette today. Reading details of her 23-year long life, you sense that this young women truly cared about the world and worked hard to make it […]
Doing Talk Radio in Portland on Saturday
This Saturday at 8 am Pacific time, we’ll be on the Azumano Travel radio show, on NewsTalk 860 KPAM-AM in Portland. We talked with the host Pat Boyle about GoNOMAD’s brand of adventurous, participatory alternative travel. We told Pat about the latest stories we’ve posted, such as Keswick, in England’s […]
Musharraf Denies What’s On Tape about Rape
Last Monday I enjoyed sitting in a cafe on Pleasant St. in Northampton MA and reading the Boston Globe. Too often coffee comes in takeaway cups, it was so much more civilized to read the paper and look at folks coming into the cafe. I read about Pakistan’s General Pervez […]
The Blogging Biz: It’s Not a Zero Sum Game
Uber Blogger Nick Denton threw a party at his SOHO loft. Denton, the man behind Gawker Media, a chain of large blogs that get a lot of mainstream press, impressed the west coasters and the buttoned down media with the copious cocktails and the swish hors d’oeuvres. Arianna Huffington reported […]
Filming My Entrance on a Scooter
This morning I drove to work on my yellow motorscooter while being filmed for WGBY, Springfield’s public TV station. It was for a segment of their home grown television series, “Making It Here,” that will air in January on Channel 57. It was a sunny morning, and Marla Zippay was […]
"I’ll Be Makin’ More than Dad Next Year!"
This is from a November 2004 profile in Fortune Magazine by Fred Vogelstein. You can bet all of the numbers are far higher now than ten months ago. Amazing! Jon Gales loves Google, but not for the reason you might think. It’s a terrific search engine, sure, but what Gales […]
You Can’t Always Get (the Change) You Want
Read a blog today about a traveling pair who went to Turkey. Below is their entry about Turkish money. “Two sets of money – Turkey is undergoing a change in currency. The old Lira was in millions. So if I buy a juice using the old money it comes to […]