"This past spring, Facebook introduced what Zuckerberg called the Open Graph. Users reading articles on CNN.com, for example, can see which articles their Facebook friends have read, shared, and liked. Eventually, the company hopes that users will read articles, visit restaurants, and watch movies based on what their Facebook friends have recommended, not, say, based […]

There is only so much oil in the groundSooner or later there won’t be much around Do you know this record? Back in the early days of ’74, we had an oil crisis.  There just wasn’t enough gas.  I remember waking up at seven to drive down to the Mobil station in Middlebury to fill […]

This is not today’s big news. The big story today is John Mayer leaving Twitter. I was stuck in a traffic jam of epic proportions this morning.  I was gridlocked in the hills in excess of an hour, barely crawling on Mulholland, what was happening? I tuned in the Sirius XM traffic report. Nothing. I […]

I know, I know, I’m overloading you. And to think of the article I didn’t write a few hours ago, after listening to Howard Stern rail about getting no respect in his contract renegotiations with Sirius!  Do you realize that with new technology Howard Stern can build his own radio empire?  It might not be […]