From the arcane, precise, and utterly fascinating world of SEO, or search engine optimization, comes this bit of wisdom, published on webproworld.com. At a recent SEO symposium, Gord Hotchkiss of Enquiro showed a Google search results page with an “eye tracking map” that looked similar to a thermal imagery chart […]

Katherine Tanney once again made the NY Times Sunday magazine with a thoughtful and eloquent essay about the end of her parent’s lives. It was bittersweet and all too typical. Her father, who had always been the reliable post,turns into a needy alzheimer patient and the mother just can’t cope. […]

More and more coverage is coming up in newspapers about GoNOMAD.com “Take offs and Landings” section of the Wall Street Journal. We passed along ideas for what’s hot in travel lately. Greenfield Recorder, local paper here about 14,000 circulation, did an interview and is doing a feature story soon. Coming […]

Songs like this one by Frank Sinatra really move me. Read these lyrics and see if you too don’t get weepy and appreciate the genteel charm of this song by The Chairman of the Board Some day, when I’m awfully low, When the world is cold, I will feel a […]

Lawrence Lessig presented an interesting argument in this month’s Wired that Verizon is working against the public with a recent decision in Philadelphia. Governor Ed Rendell signed into law a bill prohibiting the government from offering free Wi-Fi in their municipalities. In Philly, more than half of neighborhoods have no […]

Andy Kessler wrote recently in Wired about whether we really need the US Postal service. What would happen, he asked, if this 180-year-old dinosaur disappeared tomorrow? Plenty of good things. The mailing of bills is this giant’s Achille’s heel. Because paying bills on line makes so much more sense–it costs […]

Just finished Mark Blowden’s wonderful account of the manhunt for Pablo Escobar, “Killing Pablo.” The ultimate end came after months and months of searching, and especially, of listening. There was a young commander in the Colombian Search Bloc who got very adept at using a device provided by the CIA, […]

Last night’s television viewing brought forth two pairs…a black man with a white wife and a black woman with a white husband. They were destined to meet on “Wife Swap,” that terribly tacky yet totally fascinating improbable show where wives are traded and experience another’s life. Black wife was lazy…and […]