Probably the biggest influence on me in starting this blog was Fred Wilson of Union Square Venture’s AVC.com.  As the title suggests, he is a VC – a venture capitalist – involved in a lot of great Web 2.0 companies like Twitter, Foursquare, and Disqus, the service I use for the comments on this blog. Fred’s blog is about his […]

I came across this story today.  As we all know, the magazine industry has been particularly hurt over the last few years.  Squeezed from all sides, one of the first things to go at some outlets was journalistic integrity. The magazine model perhaps was flawed from the beginning.  They create content for the readers.  However, the readers pay only a […]

For this Tech Tuesday, I wanted to write on perhaps the new hottest web 2.0 trend: daily deal sites. By now there are many of them and they all have certain niches, but the basic idea is the same.  Every day a new product or service is offered at a heavily discounted price in a limited quantity and for a […]

Meehna Goldsmith recently posted an excellent interview on Investing in Watches (Part 1 and Part 2).  The topic is very interesting, especially as it has long been taboo to discuss on other internet forums. First of all, I would not buy watches as investments.  There are plenty of investment opportunities in the world, and while I will argue later that […]

Well today is the day of my Millionaire taping so I’m not going to be able to do a full post.  Instead, here’s a link to the Hourtime podcast I recorded the other day with Ariel from ablogtoread and John Biggs of CrunchGear. http://hourtimeshow.com/post/1302174730/episode-40-an-interview-with-stephen-hallock Enjoy and wish me luck!  I won’t be able to report on how it goes until […]

Not quite tech again, but maybe we can do TV Tuesday instead of Tech Tuesday. For those who have not heard or seen it, popular street artist, Banksy, wrote the opening of The Simpsons last weekend.  For those not familiar, Banksy is perhaps the most famous street artist in the world, although his true identity is secret.  His work is […]

Hope you all had a great weekend.  It’s Columbus day here in the US, so rather than write a full post I thought I would share this terrific article by Jason Heaton on www.askmen.com.  If Jason’s name sounds familiar it is because he also writes for our friends at Hodinkee and Gear Patrol. In the article, Jason takes on what […]

We do very little advertising.  Mostly when you see us it is editorial coverage.  Occasionally you will see an ad that is done in cooperation with a retailer.  And every now and then, we will take out an ad on our own. Of course with print media, the difficulty is that you cannot track the efficacy of an ad.  The only […]

I had my blog post all planned out today.  It was going to be a defense of the JWLRY MACHINE, our collaboration with Boucheron.  When we were ripped to pieces on the watch websites and forums for creating a piece of jewelry and accused of jumping the shark, I was going to plead our case. I would explain how the […]

This TickTocking Tuesday I’m going to talk about a movie.  I think it still fits as the movie is about Facebook – I make the rules around here anyway! In all seriousness, I saw The Social Network over the weekend.  It is an excellent movie, very well done.  I promise I’m not going to turn this blog into an amateur movie review […]