The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.
WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.
Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.
I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one.
Good first drafts and speedy responses to consumer dialog will always trump lawyered corporate speak.
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.
Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.
Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.
Teenagers aren't loyal to much of anything - especially Internet stuff.
I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.
Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.
I'll admit it I'm one of those people who has a Google News alert set for my own name.