MSFT's first web presence: http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk_hp1.htm This will take you back to another time. For me, I had just built my first computer and the server room of the first ISP that came to our little town. The owner handed me a disk with Mosaic on it and that was my first experience with the WWW. Continue reading

Macmillan should stop talking in circles...and start an honest dialogue with their authors. John Sargent took out a full-page advertisement in Publishers Lunch to share this open letter to the community: http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/lunch/macmillan_30jan10.html The absurdity of the argument is unbelievable. Publishers have long maintained a high-margin product in their Hardcover editions of books and managed the publication window, and arguably there was a difference between the hardcover and softcover version of the product. You could make a shaky argument that the costs of the materials, etc. could justify the difference between $14.99 and $5.99, but it is hard to imagine an... Continue reading

This is very cool! Abby Sunderland is attempting to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world in a 40' Open 40 racing sailboat. If she's successful, she'll become the youngest person to have done so. What's more, it runs in the family. Her brother completed the trip last year and held the record until last fall. Follow her here: http://abbysunderland.com/ Continue reading

Kicking off a Typepad Micro account. I've been active in consumer internet for 5 years now, but have yet to ever write publicly. There have been a couple ideas I've been thinking through lately that I felt like writing down, and what better place to start exploring those ideas than here....where potentially I can get feedback and shape ideas through the back and forth. Here goes! Continue reading