There’s a huge wave that Internet people are paddling like fools to catch right now. It’s the “women are starting to realize they’re under-represented in tech and startups, so we’d better start to care or at least pretend we do” wave. Some effects of this wave include a rise in women-in-tech organizations and an effort… [Read more…]
February 16, 2010
I’m not wild about list posts. Apparently I’m the only one, because I’ve never heard anybody else complain about them, and blogs great and small are overflowing with “ten ways to [whatever]” posts. They’re generally quite popular, too. Frankly, I think they’re a symptom of laziness on the part of writers and readers alike. But I… [Read more…]
January 28, 2010
There is a common theme to the last two posts I wrote for Web Worker Daily (which has a spiffy new design, BTW, check it out). One was about how to use a great little app called Tweepi to manage all your followers and followees on Twitter, and the other was about what to do when you… [Read more…]
February 26, 2009
It was Seedcamp week in Paris, with the first Paris Mini Seedcamp on the 24th. I went to the special Seedcamp edition of the OpenCoffee Club meeting the next day, as well as the first Paris TechCrunch Talk in the afternoon. The subject of the latter was the state of entrepreneurship in France, and there… [Read more…]
February 6, 2009
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, right? Maybe not so much on the Web, where our olfactory senses don’t do us much good. When you name your startup zlignob, you’re playing a dangerous game. Some people try to compensate for the meaningless signifier… [Read more…]
March 22, 2010
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