Jason Elk

I love Twitter. But I’m starting to fall very much out of love with some of the tweets that pop up in my stream. Yes, obviously, Twitter offers us a quicker, less formal, real-time version of email. And yes, it’s gone way beyond its original plan to publish everyone’s answer to “what are you doing?” […]

What started as a trickle of a problem a few months ago has bubbled over into a series of unfortunate, unstoppable, unbearable and unbelievable events in the life of a successful startup that has perhaps become too big for its boots. Two months ago, I noticed that every fifth or sixth blog I visited that […]

How do I love Google? Let me count the ways. I love that they’ve kept their simple homepage while all around them have transformed into overwhelming portals. I love their ingenuity. Their ability to solve problems that we didn’t even know we had is unmatched. I love their search engine with all its patented algorithms, […]

Few things infuriate me. In fact, very few things make me use the word infuriate. But today, as a survivor of rampant, blatant bandwidth theft, I have no alternative but to put this polite description to work. The others that rush to mind are reserved for the invisible culprit who should only hope that we […]

Like the quest for ultimate self–enlightenment, the search for the perfect hosting company seems neverending. No matter how happy you are at the beginning, inevitably something crops up along the way that causes you to revisit your original decision. What was it that made you whip out your credit card? Why did you trust them? […]