My family and I are going into the backcountry this week - no email, Twitter, blogging, etc. Here's where we're going, in case any of you might be curious. Click the terrain or satellite tabs to see the amazing country - truly another world back there. See you in......

The ruling yesterday on the merits of Viacom's data requests is worthy of review. Ars has more here. I am preparing for a vacation and can't elaborate, but trust me on this one.........

In case you missed the CM Summit in NYC and want to see what happened, there were some great moments, and they are up on the site now. Don't miss Rich Silverstein, or Beth Comstock, or all the other goodness..........

I am thinking hard about the impact of open search - the idea that a major search index becomes totally open to developers, an open API, etc. that allows search to become a true platform that people can develop on top of. I'd love your thoughts on this....writing this......

Somehow, this felt fine on Twitter: My Mac FAILED. After downloading a new OS (560 MBS!!!!) Rummaged around and found a four year old OSX disc...and MAGIC. It worked! But wrong on this site. The magic was truly ... magic. I booted off the CD I found, it checked......