Played five games of volleyball. Or what is it? Sets? Rounds? Matches? It's been a loooooong time. Especially interesting since we were playing in a haze of smoke from the dry brush fires in the neighborhood. Anyway, Berkowitz's team won in the f...

That last post got me thinking... the tricky thing about buzzwords is that they're often taken and/or used outside of any appropriate context. That's how you know when a buzzword is really hot -- when everyone and their mother starts dropping it in e...

I shared up-to-the-minute results of my Buzz-o-Meter at today's Search Insiders Tell All panel. Here's a quick run-down of the top 10. I'll provide more context and rationale another time. 1. Transparency 2. User-centricity 3. Content 4. Analy...

I know MediaPost offers tons of photos from the event, but you can find some additional shots on my Flickr page. ...

Part way through the morning and so far all's well. Yahoo kicked of the day with a great panel discussion about the future of search. General consensus seemed to be that search is increasing being integrated into more and more of the holistic mark...

Jordan Rohan, analyst with RBC Capital Markets, is on stage now. His presentation title: "Internet 2007: Some Things Make Sense… …Others are Just Wacky." To his credit, he said he gets 80% of what's going on, and the other 20% falls under "wa...

After a lovely dinner provided by Outrider, my evening was spoiled by watching both Bay Area teams lose playoff games last night. The San Jose Sharks got sent home by the Red Wings. The Golden State Warriors made a valiant stand against the Jazz in...

During his keynote this morning, RBC Capital Markets analyst Jordan Rohan issued his SIS stock recommendation: Bankrate.com -- trading at $41 Consistent performance Best in class management team Shrugged off weakness in subprime business T...

Hailing from Chicago, I know how much White Sox fans hate it when the Cubs get all the attention so this is my attempt to balance my earlier Shawon-o-meter reference with something Southsiders ca...

Early contender for Quote of the Day... Robert Pettee from Lending Tree during the Yahoo sponsored breakfast -- "Email, display, and search will all be one big group hug in a couple years."...