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

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

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

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.

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so.

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

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.