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What’s the most important thing to me about our website? I think that has to be the impact we have on so many people and that we make their lives richer as a result of the stories we publish. Some people get great joy in getting in the news a […]

After a conference like this my group of webmaster pals and I all came away with the same feeling. Whoa, we’ve got so much work to do! That happens when you hear from a kid who graduated from MIT in 2010, and now has VC backers providing millions for a […]

Rob Solomon the COO of Groupon stunned the audience with his figures. It’s the fastest growing company in history, and in just nine months they’ve grown from 100 to 3000 employees. Now they offer their amazing deals by email in 30 countries. I know anecdotally that it really works…at least […]

This remains frustrating indent know if I can write a blog on Here

Ten years ago, Rich Barton was the CEO of Expedia, which at that time was the dominant travel fare search website. Today at Phocuswright, a clip was played of a young Barton up on stage being asked a question by investor Carl Icahn, about reading a balance sheet. In the […]

If there is one topic that most people are comfortable talking about it’s weather. In fact, it’s a topic that generates more interest than almost anything else.  Tonight I got a chance to meet a man who has made weather his occupation. Chuck Prewitt is one of the owners of […]

I’m in that frenzied state impending airline travel brings on. It’s a giddy feeling of anxiousness over what I might forget, and a bit of excitement about taking to the skies again. You know you’re a real traveler when the latter trumps the former, and you’ve got  your trip on. […]

Sometimes when I think the Valley is ahead of the game when it comes to local eating and food trends, I get taken aback by a great idea that nobody has brought here yet. I found out about how some people around the country are enjoying their lives as “lazy […]

Louis Zamperini set the world record for surviving at sea when he was shot out of the sky in 1944 and lasted 47 days on a raft.  This alone might qualify the man for fame, but his story was the stuff of legend and he even wrote two books about […]

This is a photo by Jean Spoljaric in her new story about Enshi China. Just another great month of writing from GoNOMAD!

Today’s a momentus day, it’s been a long, long journey and we’re almost, amazingly, at the final stage of calling in the inspectors and officially signing off on the big project.  I remember so well the many variations of this project I dreamed up. One called for a giant family […]

On Interstate 91, there are now tall curved towers with cameras on top of them, and an article in today’s Republican detailed the plan. A five-year plan involving laying fiber in the ground and mounting these cameras to provide webcam views of the traffic, 24/7.  So someday soon we can […]

I watched the president on TV last night, up very close on the HDTVand I felt a little less detached from him than I usually do. I emphathized with his huge tasks and the difficulties he’s faced with last week’s elections.  Today in the Recorder was something he gets complete […]

I must say that I am impressed with my old friend Kent.  He showed me his ticket to Beijing, it’s in seat number 2a, a flatbed in Business Class on American for the 19-hour flight over the North Pole from New York to China around Christmastime.  He’s been invited by […]

I can’t remember ever being in New York City and not feeling a spring in my step and excitement in my blood. That’s because the city pumps it into us, and maybe because when we come here we are often doing really fun things like meeting tourism officials and having […]

I made a visit to a restaurant I’ve been thinking about for many years. Ever since I first read a book by Anthony Bourdain, I’ve known that his place was Les Halles. Tonight I got to visit and enjoyed its authenticity with a Frenchman I met. I was dipping into […]

Today is election day and one of the first things I saw on my phone was a text message from my sister that said ‘vote.’  I know that I’d be disappointing her if she knew that I am the only member of my family who doesn’t swallow the entire Obama […]

Today’s I read Anthony Bourdain’s newest book, “The Nasty Bits,” while I was on the exercise machine, and enjoyed his chapter about spending a week on board the ResidenceSea, a floating luxury condo that takes the very rich around the world and affords the utmost in luxury. Bourdain has this […]