WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.

It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.