Connecting the dots of life and business

This morning I awoke to several of my pine trees being down, including one that landed on my neighbor’s garage. As could be predicted, St. Matthews lost power, so I packed up my things and drove to stay at a friend’s place off Brownsboro Road. This 15-minute drive took me 45 minutes due to power [...]

I just found out my favorite restaurant, Melillo’s is closing its doors. While I am sure many things factored into making this tough decision, I realized there are three main things we can all do to support our preferred businesses, products, services, web sites and yes, restaurants. Personally, I have never operated, worked at or [...]

Shawn Morton and I are hosting a tweetup here in Louisville for area folks this Thursday. Our agenda is simple, there are great people locally who obviously love Twitter and other new media tools and we think we should get together! We know there are lots of fun meetups, so we asked our friends at [...]

The popular Idea Festival brings a global audience to my good ol’ Louisville, Kentucky. While its name says festival, it collects more creative, smart folks in an area like a think tank. If you don’t much about the event, check out the agenda. The speaker list is impressive… Steve Wozniak, Tiffany Shlain, Ray Bradbury, Laurence [...]

Two nights ago I attended the Louisville Geek Dinner. The valley has these events each week, but here in the bluegrass… not so much. Luckily, Ben did a great job spreading the word and the turnout was strong. Rob and I talk a lot about who might be doing cool stuff locally, so it was [...]

I wanted to post my interview with Guy Kawasaki today, but that can wait. Andy Swan, a fellow web entrepreneur from Louisville was interviewed today on the always entertaining (and informative) Wallstrip. Andy and Landon are a team of brothers who created mytrade.com and as Rob said, they’re the tallest guys in Web 2.o. Rob [...]