Food Supplement Bottle, orginally uploaded by ertessplastic
Over the last couple weeks, the New York Times has put out two articles on “food additives” that offer, I think, an interesting case study for what works and what doesn’t in what will likely be a growing field.
In the first, “Magical or Overrated? […]

Google just introduced a new feature to their personalized homepage that enables a snapshot view of feed articles.  One of my qualms with the all-inclusive homepages (e.g. netvives, pageflakes, goowy, etc.) has been the inability to get more than an article headline at a glance.  In coaxing a colleague off My […]

Vice, originally uploaded by ::oscar::
Here’s an unpopular notion: individuals should foot the bill for the harmful external impact of vices.  I’ve recently been thinking a lot about this topic as it relates to healthcare, and recognize that there are going to be some easy, and generally acceptable, inroads and some much more tricky ones.  For example, some employers are asking employees that […]

As a former resident of NYC, where I enjoyed craigslist’s enormous popularity and usefulness in all things housing/roommate/classifieds related, it was with a chuckle and a sigh that I read about new service craigsnumber in this morning’s FierceVOIP.  Taking a page out of craiglist’s automated anonymous email system (amongst others that offer similar services including […]

Dr. Benjamin Brewer writes a bi-weekly column for the Wall Street Journal called, “The Doctor’s Office“ (subscription required).  It’s a good homespun view of the small-town family practitioner (Dr. Brewer works out of Forrest, IL) and yesterday’s piece offered an important retrospective following Dr. Brewer’s decision to ”stop seeing drug company sales representatives.”  […]

shopping carts, originally uploaded by anyone_anywhere
I’ve been enjoying Jeremy Liew’s posts on Lightspeed Venture Partners’ new blog. On Jan. 1 he posted six 2007 consumer internet predictions and at the top of the list was “Ecommerce 2.0 arrives“:
Google’s search revenues continue to grow at 70-80% growth rates. Yet the public […]

aWhiteSandsFilmFestposter, originally uploaded by ellis_neal
Paul Kedrosky has been touting 2007 as what I’ll call the “year of now”:
As I have written here (too) many times, the theme for 2007 remains realtime. Trust me on that one.

If Blockbuster’s recent market gains are any indicator, we’re seeing the early waves hit shore.  On […]

After watching An Inconvenient Truth last Friday, I couldn’t sit still.  Two very disparate thoughts were coursing through me. 
First - rarely does the public witness such a positive reboot of a public figure (Gore).  Michael Ray’s wonderful book, The Highest Goal, came to mind.  In it, Ray describes a binary […]