Yes, I should have done this long, long ago.

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Om Malik takes a look at the Alexa graph for the domain com.com, and comes to the mistaken assumption that News.com is having a slow year. He then posits that the decline is due to the rise of blogs. I’m all for the rise of blogs, but the reality is that CNET News.com traffic is…

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Saturday night, I enjoyed a fine filet mignon from Bern’s Steak House, in Tampa, Florida. I’m not sure I can do it justice, but this place takes selection — at least with steaks and wines/spirits — to an extreme. You may review the menu [15 page PDF, 200K] if you dare. Page 9 begins the…

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Tonight, Gene “the stereo guy” visited us for the third time. While I like Gene, and he does a good job, I hope to never need his services again. (But let me know if you want his number, for San Franscisco-area repairs/installations.) It wasn’t about the stereo, per se, but just a general frustration with…

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Glad to read the news.

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I was on an airplane, I read an ‘airplane book.’ The title in question was Wolf Pass, by Steve Thayer. Thriller, set in 1962 Wisconsin with repeated flashbacks to WWII. Nazi sniper in Wisconsin in 1962, with JFK thrown in, just because. I finished reading this very quickly, and left it on the plane. And…

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How like the Yankees to name their spring training facility Legends Fields. Even as a childhood fan, I have to admit it’s a bit much. But a sunny Saturday in Tampa was not a bad way to pass the time. Glad to be home now, though, and sticking around for a few weekends to come.

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Back on Sunday, after checking out A-Rod in Tampa.

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Vin Crosbie has released the first look at his vision for the future of the newspaper business online. I’ve printed it (it’s long, even though this is only the beginning), and I’ll review on the plane tomorrow. Looks like it’s part of an OJR series on the future of news.

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Johanna Rothman on project managers, aka program managers. With a link to a discussion on Joel Spolsky’s site. I like the job description, whatever the title.

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