April 26th, 2011 4:58 pm

Required Viewing

It seems like every year someone I read posts this video series by Ira Glass. I never took the time to watch the whole thing before. I just did and man, is it great. You should watch it too. Here — why don’t you do it right now.

Now that you are done, you should promise yourself that you will watch the entire thing every time it comes around. I just did.

April 22nd, 2011 12:28 pm

Can Foursquare save itself?

About a month ago, I wrote up a longish post on Foursquare, its problems, and my general thoughts on how it could improve. Of course two days later, Foursquare launched the new version – so I figured my thoughts were moot. However, tooling around with the new version for a few weeks and a recent piece on from ReadWriteWeb sent me scrambling through drafts folder to see what was still relevant.

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April 12th, 2011 10:31 am

Scott Brown is doomed


Scott Brown has a lot going for him right now. He has a ton of money, a wave a good publicity surrounding his book, potential opponents are dropping out, and several polls saying he is all but invincible.

Despite all that, and regardless of which Democrat gets nominated to challenge him, I think that Scott Brown is going to have a very hard reelection, and probably lose.

What do Democrats (and this pundit) having going for them?

MATH!!! And about 1,559,464 registered voters. Find out more after the jump.

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