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I’ve been invited to be a speaker at the 58th Annual Conference on World Affairs in April. Sean, a good friend I met on the IT conference circuit when I used to give a lot of talks, introduced me to the organizers of the conference and after speaking with them, they apparently think I’m […]

This article summarizes a report from Bowker that shows computer books represented only 3% of all new books in 2004. This is a continued download trend for computer books since the dot-com bust. I’ve also heard from various sources that computer book sales are not recovering to the level once anticipated. Not […]

Startup School was a great way to spend a Saturday. I took ten pages worth of notes.

I had a great time at the MVP Summit last week. I got to meet a bunch of people in person that I had only known over email including Michael Smith, Laura Hunter, Al Mulnick, Darren Mar-Elia, Deji Akomolafe, Don Wells, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner, Rich Milburn, Brian Desmond, Carlos Magalhaes, and Joe Kaplan. […]