Author Archives: Brian Alvey

Marc Orchant was a long-time Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN) blogger. He was the first blogger I got email from when our servers were hacked during my anniversary trip in July 2005. Sadly, he’s not the first WIN blogger I knew who has died. At our WINstock dinner two short years ago, Marc didn’t have a problem with my dev team piratingContinue reading “Marc Orchant died”

There’s a Wikipedia page with the speech Nixon was prepared to read in the event that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin didn’t make it home from their trip to the moon. I think about these kinds of contingency plans companies prepare all the time and sometimes you even read a headline that was written expecting an electionContinue reading “Apollo 11’s worst case scenario”

When I was outed on Twitter, I did a recap of some of my favorite tweets like Matt Heerema and Jeffrey Zeldman do. Here is another list of some select Twitter statuses, in the very un-blog-like oldest-to-newest order: “Would you like me to leave some of this here, as a warning to the new bottles?” http://tinyurl.com/2lj4jt Sep 13 Just sang Mr. RobotoContinue reading “My favowit tweets”

Ten years ago today Niki and I got engaged in Mystic, CT. I often think about how different we were back then from how we are now and I’m stunned at how lucky I was that we found each other — even more so that we decided to spend our lives together. I thought weContinue reading “I’m blessed”

Yesterday, without thinking about the consequences, I Twittered the following: “In Tampa for my big job interview. Just saw Girardi in the airport parking lot. Small world.” I like letting people know what’s going on with me, but sometimes I should think before I tweet. Yes, it’s true. I have been interviewing with the YankeesContinue reading “Interviewing to manage the Yankees”

After not thinking about LOGO for years and years, it appeared to me twice this week. The first time was when we were taking a tour of a school my older son might go to next year. They had computer generated drawings in the hallway and someone pointed out that they were teaching LOGO inContinue reading “LOGO’s comeback”

TechCrunch reported that Propeller.com has been doing better than Netscape.com since AOL took the Netscape domain away from the social news team and turned it back into a portal. The conclusions they found included: the audience must have been really loyal to the social news site that Jason and the entire Netscape social news team were vindicatedContinue reading “Propeller envy”

Joey Manley, who knows a lot about publishing web comics, wrote a great article covering the ComicMix Phase Two launch and focused on the quality of our online comic book reader. Overall he was really kind to us. Being that he’s a guy who has obsessed over the problem of reading comic books online, his positive review means aContinue reading “Building a great online comic book reader”

You all know that stars like Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Peter Rojas and Harvey Levin use my old blogging platform, but are there any other famous people using Blogsmith? Sure there are! Niki had the food channel on yesterday and I asked her if we were watching Bobby Flay. She said it was Tyler Florence. Ah, I remember that name becauseContinue reading “Celebs on Blogsmith”

I enjoyed Ryan Block’s response to Nick Denton’s assertion that Gizmodo’s traffic has passed Engadget’s. The most interesting section was the one where Ryan addressed Denton’s claim that “Engadget had… in AOL, a corporate parent which funneled through new visitors.” “Oh Nick, how I wish. According to our internal traffic systems, yesterday, our second biggest day forContinue reading “Engadget vs. Gizmodo”