The Long Tail
Chris Anderson from Wired talked passionately at Supernova about how the Internet makes it possible to exploit the "niche" portion of the demand for products, services, and content. His theory is that there is more total demand — revenue — from a large number of little known products that there is from a small number […]
Split Rock Geocache
The Split Rock Mini Cache had some problems as I previously mentioned. However, it was extremely well described on the geocache web page. As with many things, the way you describe it has a big impact on the attraction to it. One thing I have noticed about good caches is that they describe not only […]
Two Caches Out Of Three
As of today there are 181,216 active geocaches in 215 countries. In the last 7 days, there have been 138,512 new log entries written at geocaching.com by 24,318 participants in the global sport of geocaching. Two of those entries were from me — but it should have been three. The Split Rock Mini Cache included […]
Supernova 2005
There are a lot of good conferences — Supernova is one of the best. This year was the second time I have made the trip to San Francisco to attend. There were roughly 250 technologists, investors, business leaders and media who came together to network, share ideas, and explore the business impacts of many key […]
Interstates Redux
Three years ago a motorcycling adventure made me appreciate the back roads, although the physical drain of the trip made me appreciate the efficiency of the Interstates (see Do We Need the Interstate Highway System in America?). This year was a re-confirmation. We left the lake house in Pennsylvania at 6:30 in the morning and […]