iPhone activation report drops Apple Stock (and a DailySpike Update)

According to AT&T’ second-quarter earnings report, they activated a whopping 146,000 iPhones in the first two days – apparently everyone else was still on hold with their Customer Service Dept.
Investors, finally recognizing that Apple partnering with AT&T was a really stupid idea, pulled out at an alarming rate to drop the stock price by $5.70 [...]

Harry Potter – best one of the series yet

I consider Harry Potter geeky enough to talk about on my blog, although it’s rather mainstream.
Tuesday night I took two of my boys to a midnight opening show of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and I loved it! Yeah, it left a lot out of the books, and there [...]

The whi-Phone

The iPhone has boggled my mind, for several reasons.
First and foremost, people I know and respect and I consider very smart have dumped their notPhones and bought iPhones, and most of them say they love them.
Honestly, it seems to me that it’s just a fad thing, be part of the cool [...]

Retail stores and crappy customer service

Yeah, I haven’t blogged for a while and now that I’m taking time to do it, I’ve got a lot cached that I want to say
A week or so ago, Seth Godin had a couple of really interesting posts about retail stores and customer service. So did Carlee and Rob. [...]

CallWave – VoiceMail 2.0

Those who know me well enough to call me know that my voicemail box is always full. I keep it that way on purpose. I never listen to voicemail and assume that if you need something and I don’t answer you’ll email, SMS, twitter, IM, or blog it at me. I keep [...]

FitBlogging – somewhere else

I wanted to let everyone know that if you liked or cared about my fitblogging posts, I’ve now created a new blog about running, specifically about the method I’m now using called Heart Rate Running.
If you think you’re too out of shape (fat) to easily pick up somehting like running, subscribe to this [...]

How the Blogosphere actually works

A lot of people know that I’m building a company that processes the blogosphere and I get a LOT of questions about how the blogosphere works, specifically I get asked a lot about how my company and what we do is different than Google. Since it’s such a common question, I thought I would [...]

What we’re up to

Things have been busy here while we build out new software and get several new services ready to go. I’ve cut back my hours some, instead of working 20 – 22 hours a day (seriously), I’ve only been working around 16 – 18. Ryan and I have been totally focussed on getting The [...]