While it’s still not even close to being significant relative to Google’s search traffic the traffic from Bing.com continues to grow. What is the most shocking to me is that Bing drives 364% more traffic to MindTouch.com and 10% more traffic ObLOGN.com than Yahoo! search. You read correctly, Bing drives more than three times more traffic than Yahoo! search.

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During an interview today….

I drew a robot. I’m not sure what the interviewee thought about it, but I think it’s pretty good. Back to work….

I recently was tasked with writing an article reviewing noise canceling head phones for Fortune Magazine. I reviewed Creative Aurvana X-Fi, Bose QuietComfort 3, Genius GHP-04NC, JVC HA-NCX78 and Sennheiser PXC 450.

Read the full article, you can find the PDF here.

Being a nineteen year fan of Nine Inch Nails I was thoroughly pleased to read MindTouch, the company I CEO for, included in a C|Net article about Trent Reznor’s use of an Open Core business model.

The article cites a recent post I wrote at the MindTouch blog about the MindTouch Community. The Open Core business model works well in yielding exponential growth by building and engaging community. I write about this too in an article titled: “Open Source Magic Carpet Defies Recession”.

I went camping with the family this weekend at in the Laguna Mountains in the Cleveland National Forest. We stayed at the El Prado Campground. This is about an hour drive from downtown San Diego just past Alpine, CA. I often use Recreation.gov for booking our campsites; however, I just figured out ReserveAmerica.com includes both federal and state parks. Both sites would benefit greatly from a Collaborative Network that would allow visitors to share information, video and images of sites. For me it is always difficult to decide on a campground because I just don’t know what to expect without speaking with someone that has been there. I once took the family to a campsite north of Morro Bay after booking it at Reserve America only to discover it was not more than a parking lot near a coal burning power plant. Granted it was near the beach and you could see Morro Rock, but the campsite was really awful.

Ashby loves camping and this was Roesevelt’s first camping trip. We had a nice shaded campsite, but it was 98 F when arrived. It really didn’t seem that hot though. In the evening the temperature dropped to a pleasant high 60s F.

The Laguna Mountains are gorgeous. I am told there is a really nice trail that runs through some mountain meadows that starts at the El Prado campground. If it were not so hot we could have gone on some hikes, but with Roesevelt being so young and the trails near our campsite having so little shade it was not feasible. 

Friends Tara knows from Stroller Strides, Christy and Steve, joined us and brought their children, Wade and Olivia. Wade, who is almost two, apparently enjoys running on streets as he would frequently make a run for it down the road. The kids had a great time and so too did we adults after the kids retired for the evening.

Christy and Steve have a pop up camper that sports three beds, a sink and stove.  It is fantastic. They tow it behind. Park it. Crank up the pop-up and VOILA they have a comfortable camp home for them and their kids. Tara assures me she would be willing to camp more frequently with such a contraption. I think we need to get one.

I find it amusing to reminiscent on my years of camping in Northern Minnesota with a canvas sack, sleeping bag and a tarp. How we change after children….

Complete photoset.

A photo I took of Ashby at her dance recital was featured in an article at Urlesque. I have never heard of the site, but apparently it gets a lot of traffic because the site drove over 7,000 click-throughs to my Flickr photo in one day.

I wrote this week at the MindTouch blog about the success of MindTouch and I provided a brief summary of how MindTouch is defying the recession.

Yes, this is the real revenue graph for MindTouch. I know what you’re thinking: What happened in Q2 2008? 🙂 Good question. I will get to this in a moment. There is a lot to learn from this graph like this. Beginning with MindTouch investing the first year solely in creating an install base and developer community. The first thing we launched was our developer community (July, 2006 at OSCON) and for the first year MindTouch did not bother trying to sell anything. We did manage to generate a surprising amount of revenue selling support without having a formal product in place and we began formally selling support subscriptions near the end of 2007. By the end of Q1 2008 MindTouch software was being distributed about 5,000 times a day and we turned our attention toward building the business. In Q2 2008 we began experimenting with a commercial edition.

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via Open Source Magic Carpet Defies Recession | MindTouch, Inc Blog.

Roesevelt has been ill.  I don’t feel like relating the entire tale. Suffice it to say he has a milk protein allergy, GERD and/or maybe TEF (nothing contagious). We are still trying to figure it all out and it has been very troubling to the entire family. I have tried to focus on work and other things to distract myself from worrying. His symptoms include a loss of appetite, wheezing and a hacking cough. Poor boy. He’s such a happy fellow even when he feels like crap.

One of the reasons Roe was diagnosed early is because his enterprising mother (Tara, featured above) used our Flip Video to record him while he was exhibiting symptoms late at night. Today the Flip Video again improved Roe’s healthcare.

Often when Tara, or I, go to the pediatrician we have many questions or pertinent information for the other to ask or share. In the hustle to get out the door with the distraction of children it is often difficult for either of us to remember. Before I left for work, at Tara’s request, I recorded a short 20 second video on our Flip with my questions. Tara watched the video, but as I too often do, she had forgotten a couple of my questions. Yay Flip! She had it with her at Dr. Gerber’s office and shared the video with him. 🙂

By the way, Dr. Gerber is  our wonderful pediatrician. I highly recommend him. He is at Scripps Medical in Hillcrest. He is very thorough, never rushed, always takes the time with us in the office and is happy to call us after hours to answer questions. Many of Tara’s mom friends take their children to Dr. Gerber as well. They all love him and think he’s a handsome fellow. So, if you’re looking for a pediatrician in San Diego….

Chris Brogan is one of the most convivial fellows I have ever met. I have barely spoken to the man, but he exudes positivity to an extent that you want to be near him. I do not know what he does exactly. He is some kind of social media expert. No, not this kind of social media expert.

No, not that kind of “social media expert”. He is a talented and wonderful person. I write this based on his blog, which I have read sporadically for the last year and a half. I recommend it highly. Anyway, Chris took this photo of me at the Enterprise 2.0 conference and I want to give him credit as I have now made it my (gr)avatar. Thanks Chris!!