I enjoy talking to young companies (or proto-companies) about their projects. I do that with a few incubators and the like, and I consistently find it rewarding. I find myself always trying to tweak people’s product vision a bit, looking for a way to turn a “business idea” into something...

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of working with the small-but-growing team that’s building the software offerings that are part of the Webmaker effort.  If you don’t know about Webmaker, you should — go check out the website, and Mark Surman’s blog for more details and an...

Twitter’s been great, but it’s very much robbed me of energy to blog, which is unfortunate.  In a possibly foolish attempt to use a public statement of intent to shape my own behavior, I’m hereby saying that I’m going to try and blog more, and likely tweet less.  Not sure...

In a new-thing-for-me, I’m working with a group of four students from the Center for Digital Media as part of their Masters program, on a design-led project that ties to Mozilla.  Specifically, these folks are working on a project they call The Cucumber, which is (in my words), trying to...

I’m not supposed to be in front of a computer right now. I’m supposed to be attending the Vancouver premiere of Tiffany Shlain’s Connected, in a fundraiser to benefit A Human Right.  This looked like a fun event, for a good cause.  So I bought two tickets, one for myself...