Archive for January, 2008
Three Strong Reasons Why Everyone Should Blog
Photo: Ben Fry
Alternate titles for this post: "Don't Think. Just Blog." or "Friends w/ Blogs: Better than Facebook" or "Blogging is the New Resume"
Most of my friends and family still have a hard time visualizing or seeing value in the word "blog."
To them the term "blog" still means a homely-looking website with sporadic posts [...]
3A Bazaar: Retail Markets on Wheels
Driving through rural India you will run into thousands of village corner shops (or shacks) carrying everything from tea to rice to fruit to basic medicines and ointments.
These rural corner markets are all run by entrepreneurs that live on very small profit margins (as they usually get their stuff via a middleman's middleman or make [...]
Wachter Meet Jay
Bob Wachter, MD is a blogger who also happens to have a day job as both Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (he also holds a couple other "Chief" positions around UCSF but I can only fit so many words into this post).
Jay Parkinson, MD [...]
Tonik, Here’s What We Really Want From Our Health Insurance…
The other day, I was doing some Facebook power-browsing and I saw a targeted Tonik ad for my demographic in the left sidebar. I wasn't able to get a screen capture of the ad because somebody's profile caught my attention and I went back to power-browsing.
However, throughout the rest of the week I kept [...]
BUZZYEAH Adds Two New Widgets: Recent Posts, Google Reader Shared Items
About two weeks ago, I posted a guide to BUZZYEAH's left sidebar. The guide took you through a quick tour of the widgets on my left sidebar, explaining what they did and why I thought they were useful to you the reader.
Since then I have removed two of the widgets: MyBlogLog & Google Subscribed Links [...]
Nicaragua Reality Check: iPhone? “No.” Pedal-Powered Call Shop? “Yes.”
Reality checks are healthy. They help you assess the actual situation and proceed with solutions that work in the real world.
I have had my fair share of hyping mobiles phones in Africa, Google Phones in India, and developing countries skipping low-cost laptops and jumping straight to mobile.
The future is bright for low-cost tech in developing [...]
Brian at Trulia Clears Things Up
I've been trying to find a complete source for recently sold home data for awhile now. I thought I'd be able to find a complete source online with all the cool new real estate 2.0 sites popping up everywhere.
About a week ago I posted my frustration with not being able to find good recently [...]
Bill Gates Calls for “Creative Capitalism”
Bill will call for "creative capitalism" at the World Economic Forum in Davos today, WSJ reports.
What is "creative capitalism"?
Bill says that "creative capitalism" uses market forces to address poor-country needs that he feels are being ignored.
Wow. That is right up BUZZYEAH's alley. We fully support "creative capitalism" around these parts.
Bill says, "We have to find [...]
40 Hours Later - I Am Still a Trulia Lead
Update: Brian at Trulia left a nice comment over on the other recent Trulia post.
Last Friday, I wrote this post about needing better "recently sold" data for homes on Trulia. Specifically, I was confused with their "Avg price/sq ft" category when using their market trends tool.
Roughly 40 hours ago I sent Trulia an email using [...]
$1000 Raised! Just Ordered My 23andMe DNA Kit
It took about 1 month, 5 days to raise the $1000 but we did it.
I just ordered my 23andMe saliva collection kit a couple of minutes ago. Here is proof of the order confirmation email:
How long until I get my hands on my genome results?
It will take a couple of days for the saliva collection [...]
