Bookstores and Public Life

This morning, I was getting caught up in news, and this article about the closing of a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan grabbed my attention.  It’s clear that Barnes and Noble has been acting more like a community center for the neighborhood than just a store. ...

Rethinking Search and Strategy

One of the best things we ever did at Podcamp Philly was to team up with Li Evans and SearchCamp.  The Searchcamp topics cover everything about search engines, optimization, marketing, and more.  For anyone producing any content online, I am convinced you need to have...

The Evolution of Search

I’ve started an interesting book called Kluge- The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus.  In the opening chapter, Marcus talks about how biological systems evolve with a “good enough” threshold, not always with the most elegant...