Dave Burke : Freelance .NET Web Developer specializing in Online Communities

Screen fluency with Kevin Kelly. Kevin Kelly is one of the top thinkers of our time.  He's been posting more frequently on his Technium blog, which is bonus in bad times.  His "Screen Fluency" post was good food for thought on how we "people of the screen" must be able to reference any me... [More]

Thanksgiving travel done right. We spent Thanksgiving visiting family in South Central Pennsylvania where I grew up.  We normally make the drive from Vermont, around 9 hours. This year we took an AirTran flight from Burlington to BWI. An hour in the air and an hour in a rental to York County, ... [More]

Bye Fake Steve, er, Real Dan. Dan Lyons had a wonderful run as Fake Steve Jobs.  He never made it work as "Real Dan Lyons," so it's no great loss that he's closing down his blog after his new Newsweek bosses apparently didn't like some of his recent language.  From his email to the AP on ... [More]

A Moment in Time with my Zune. It was the day after Election Day 2008 and I was walking the dog, still buzzed about the history I witnessed the night before. How could I listen to a podcast of Rachel Maddow or Olbermann or Brokaw recorded before the world changed at 11:00 PM?  So I tuned my Zu... [More]

Virtual Earth gets closer to Everyman. At the September Vermont .NET User's Group meeting Mark Merchant of Microsoft's Virtual Earth Business Unit gave a great presentation on Virtual Earth.  I was impressed.  Yet when it comes to reasons to investigate a robust mapping appl... [More]

MY NORDIC TRACK IS BUSTED!  I'm sorry to have to start today's Everyman in crisis mode, but after 14 years of use, my Nordic Track is finally showing its age.  The electronic box that calculates distance and time stopped working two days ago, and I noticed the main pulley asse... [More]

Crawling out of the subprime-ordial slime. I haven't done an Everyman for over two weeks. I have to be in a positive frame-of-mind to Everyman, and as you can probably relate, it's been a rough two weeks with all of the financial turmoil going down. Zuning Friday's Marketplace podcast during my dau... [More]

Cause $20 Million ain't chump change. God Bless the USA! How wild is it that three guys throw their disparate apps into a pot and four years later are recognized with $20 million in funding by Intel Capital. While each of us may have different ideas of what constitutes true success in life, this fu... [More]

Trying to get past "Escape from Suburbia." I haven't been moved as much by a film for a long time as I have by "Escape from Suburbia."  Maybe it hit me so hard because Hot, Flat, and Crowded is currently on my Nordic Track reading rack, but for the first time I faced "Peak Oil" and all of its... [More]

What is a Community of Practice? I don't want to sound like a name dropper, but Nancy White is a friend of mine. Really. Nancy travels around the world facilitating the creation of communities, both online and off.  I never really understood what she does as a Communities of Practice expert, b... [More]