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

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

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

Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.

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.

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

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