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Just this morning, I got a visit from our friendly neighborhood religious people. I had to politely turn them away and tell them I was busy (which I really was). Now don’t get me wrong. I can say I’m a religious person. But it just turns out my morning callers subscribe to a different faith. [...]

Recently, I’ve seen an upsurge in followership of my Twitter account. I used to just ignore these email notifications, except for those cases where I personally know the new follower (at least by name) or if the name or username seems interesting enough. However, lately, I’ve also been checking the basic stats of those who [...]

The New York Times has run a story on David Rohde, a journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. From November of 2008 to June this year, the NY Times had scrambled to keep information of his kidnapping from being publicized, for fear that the kidnappers would use this to their advantage, and [...]

You’ve probably read it one time or another. They say print media has finally met its demise. That movement is leading to a lot less revenue for printed media due to fewer sales in general and secondarily through loss of advertising because of the lower sales. It’s a pretty vicious cycle to be caught in, [...]

Some discussions I’ve chanced by ask whether it’s better to launch many niche sites, or just launch one or two flagship sites, and build up smaller sites around them? Either way, I think it would take much effort and money to launch a lot of sites–at least if they’re launched at the same time. But [...]