I went to Democracy Island in Second Life today (see Randy Moss’ post). It was only the second time I have been in the Second Life virtual world, so I spent most of my time trying to figure out how to handle my "body" and navigate. Randy Moss was there somewhere doing a presentation about the Second Life Relay For ...

Geesh! I just noticed that FISpace picked up six comment spam posts on Jan. 3. I hope it’s a temporary hit. If not I’m gonna have to spend more time checking it or use some gimmicks TypePad has for blocking comment spam.

Hope y’all had a splendid pack of holidays. Over the holidays I had a chance to read a book or two that sparked some thinking. One was titled Beyond Branding: how the new values of transparency and integrity are changing the world of brands. It’s a compilation of articles by what I’d have to call recovering marketers. Most of the ...

Whoa! Here’s a hypothesis about cancer from some researchers that gives the whole process a significant twist. A Johns Hopkins researcher, with colleagues in Sweden and at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, suggests that the traditional view of cancer as a group of diseases with markedly different biological properties arising from a series of alterations within a cell’s nuclear ...