I’ve been at the blogging game since 2005.  I’ve made over one thousand posts though not all at this domain which is a bit chaotic. I’ve started niche blogs and have done some guest blogging But none of this has resulted in world wide fame, it hasn’t helped my career, in fact many people claim the opposite that my honesty online has hurt my career. This post isn’t about all that, I’m finished writing about that period of my life and the people who made me miserable…

Twice now I’ve been asked in a job interview about the merits of open source VS commercial software, or how open source software can be used by corporations, or how startups can make money leveraging open source software? What are your assets if all your company does is contribute to and work with open source software? How do you assign a value to such a company?

Online reputation management or at least monitoring your own name online using a tool like Google Alerts has become more and more necessary. It used to be vanity or perhaps curiosity that led to people googling themselves but now given the many notable examples of bad behaviour online, it is a necessity especially if you area  job seeker…

I decided to write another blog posting elaborating on one of my all encompassing theories from yesterday’s post. The theory in question I dubbed “Concentric Circles of Coolness” and it was developed late one night in Nuremberg Germany while listening to Townes Van Zandt…

I downloaded the latest greatest version of MacOS and iTunes and started fooling around with Ping and Last.fm. I agree with the consensus, Last.fm does more…