Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

The Best Darn Microsoft Evangelist in the biz, Chris Bowen, brought his troupe of geek freaks and coding acrobats to Vermont today for the Northeast 2008-09 Winter MSDN Roadshow. Actually, it was just Chris and fellow evangelist Jim O'Neil, but they were ... [More]

I'm Day Two into being a Zune Pass subscriber.  Being a Pass subscriber means I can download anything in the Microsoft Zune marketplace to my Zune for $14.99 a month.  I was focused on having full play access to Zune Channels as the primary Pass... [More]

I spent an hour yesterday afternoon at a local tire store where I spent the time setting up ASPNET Membership on a new development site.  This story isn't about ASPNET Membership though, it's about the good fortune we as developers have to become mor... [More]

I really wanted to do an Everyman tonight, but I have to get this political bookmark monkey off my back first. It's that damned Palin.  She drives me frigging nuts.  I feel like Jenny's angry boyfriend in Forrest Gump. He runs around frothing, t... [More]

Google relaunched its Blogsearch engine and from what I'm seeing it really is a potential TechMeme killer...and Memeorandum, too!  There doesn't seem to be anything on the Google Blogsearch memes in Technology or Politics that's missing from TechMeme... [More]

Trend Micro PC-cillin came installed on my 2-year-old Dell XP laptop and I've been quite happy with it. I particularly like PC-cillin when it alerts me real-time to the presence of a trojan like it did earlier this evening.      Had I stop... [More]

Stephen Baker of BusinessWeek gave an interesting commentary on Friday's Marketplace podcast on the concept behind his book "The Numerati."  Baker used a meeting with a search engine optimization expert as a starting point to describe how we now esta... [More]

The screenshot below shows some of the thousands of emails I received today, as someone has set my dbvt.com email address as the return address of a spam blast.  This happened a couple of weeks ago as well, but it stopped so I had hoped it was a one-... [More]

For the last several years I've had 3 credit cards.  One of them was a Chase MasterCard I opened to use with Circuit City's Rewards program. 5% of each purchase accumulates to use with future purchases.  I thought it was a smart program, so I st... [More]

We wanted to do something Vermonty as a family on this Labor Day Holiday, so we took the Stowe Resort gondola up Mt. Mansfield, Vermont's highest mountain.  The gondola didn't take us all the way up, as there was a .7 mile trail to the crest, [accura... [More]