Eric Odom

On Saturday Jed published my interview with him for NetSquared. The interview, titled “Fighting Taxation Without Information“, was a lot of fun and I enjoyed talking with Jed about the power of open source and crowd powered content to provide information to the masses.
We did the interview over skype, where the audio was recorded, [...]

This ad by the Courage Campaign is pretty damn genius in my opinion.

It’s official… I’ve now been addicted to the blogosphere for five years. My addiction spans far beyond the act of blogging itself. In fact, I’ve actually spent a great deal of time studying and trying to understand what blogging is and where it might take us.
Much to my own surprise, I now see the [...]

Well, not really. Actually, not at all.
A little over a year ago:
1. Consumer confidence stood at a 5-year high;
2. Regular gasoline averaged under $2.30 a gallon;
3. The unemployment rate was down to 4.4%.
4. Americans were enjoying historically-high home equity.

Since voting in a Democrat Congress in 2006 we have seen:
1. Consumer [...]

It can be rather astonishing to look back to the beginning of our country and ponder the thoughts of our founding fathers. Even more astonishing is how far we’ve strayed from the mentality displayed in those times.
Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to [...]

It’s interesting to watch a situation unfold where DailyKOS, the left’s web based champion of freedom and democracy, is apparently trying to hide revealing information on one of its own… Bill Foster.
Within hours of a majorityap.com report that a DailyKos user had posted court records from the contentious divorce proceedings of Illinois millionaire Bill Foster, [...]

FREE THE READINGTON 29!
Thomas Jefferson famously said that “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.” Well, Tommy J would be awfully proud of some two dozen kids in New Jersey today.
It seems the students at Readington Middle School (RMS) in [...]

John McCain’s campaign staff might want to start paying attention to the chatter going on in the left wing side of the blogosphere regarding his search engine results.
It is time to start bomb bomb bomb, bomb bombing again. No, not Iran, but John McCain’s Google ranking.
In looking for a search engine optimization against McCain, the [...]