What can you say? Steve is an explosive guy:

Hilarious.
Credit where credit is due: I saw it on TUAW and Daring Fireball.
Tags: steve jobs, apple, boom, stevenote, john koetsier

Update: Technorati CEO Dave Sifry has responded in the comments. Thanks!
Technorati board member and venture capitalist Ryan McIntyre is the only upper echelon person associated with Technorati who has even commented on the quality of service that Technorati has NOT been providing lately.
Kudos. But why aren’t we hearing from Dave Sifry about it?
When I saw […]

Sometimes context is not enough. Sometimes smart machines are really dumb.
Want proof?
Take a look at the Google AdSense ads on this post. It’s a post about a book by an online acquaintance about project management. And it happens to have the word forest in the title.
Now, Google’s got some of the smartest machines in the […]

I have a major apology to make to Timothy Johnson, author of Race Through the Forest: a Project Management Fable.
We’ve linked to each other’s blogs before - he’s got some great management and business insights - and he sent me a copy of his book about a month and a half ago. Unfortunately, I’ve been […]

At risk of stating the obvious, bizhack has a whole new look today.
I wanted something simpler, something darker, and something a little more cutting-edge. Voila.
The highlights:

Web 2.0-ish look
There is/isn’t a web 2.0. Yeah, I know. Web 2.0 has nothing to do with style or image. Yup, MySpace is proof of that. Still.
More economical layout
More words […]

I was chatting with our director of sales today when he mentioned that he was playing Xbox with his son last night. Now, he’s on the west coast - Bellingham, WA - and his son is back in Chicago.
This is one of the key activities that brings them together.
They both have Xboxes. They join […]

You’ve got a new product. How do you get bloggers to review it positively?

Call it a beta
Even if you think your widget is really, really good, tell bloggers that you’re still in testing, but wanted some early feedback. That way, if they find something that you didn’t know was wrong with it, they aren’t overly […]

All the everlasting Apple iPhone rumors have me in a constant state of unsatiated geek lust. What’s worse is that I need a new phone … and the iPhone isn’t rumored to be arriving until next year.
Maybe this is the next-best thing:
From the website:

Loaded Camera - 2 megapixel, 4x digital zoom, with built-in flash for […]

This past week has been crazy busy as I’m partnering with another senior manager at work to re-engineer a major department.
(Hence the lack of updates.)
Also, I’m getting closer to pulling the trigger on a personal start-up. More details when I have them.
Tags: sparkplug9, blogging, john koetsier

My wife happened to notice this Foxtrot cartoon in yesterday’s Vancouver Sun:

I wonder if there’s a million people, worldwide, who know what the heck “web 2.0″ means.
(Incidentally, that’s the first time in about 3 years we’ve had a major daily paper in our home.)
Tags: web 2.0, foxtrot, vancouver sun, john koetsier […]