Derek Scruggs

Over the last couple days I read Mr. China: A Memoir (aff), by Tim Clissold. It’s kind of a Chinese version of Burn Rate (aff), which hilariously crystallized the the early days of the dot com mania. Except that, according to Clissold, China was much, much worse. Like the dot com era, there was insane optimism about China […]

In honor of the moon landing on July 20, 1969, Google has launched Google Moon, which applies their mapping technology to a little slice of the moon. Make sure you zoom in really close. The detail is amazing.

Lately I’ve been fascinated by North Korea. I guess because everything I hear about it is just so… creepy that it attracts me for the same reason I slow down when I drive by a traffic accidents.
Kim Jong Il is right out of central casting – inscrutable, weird looking, surrounded by sycophants and treated […]

A few weeks ago Fred Wilson wrote about the (frankly brilliant) hijacking by Eric at Feedburner of his fred’spodcast tag to do an elevator pitch. So Fred set up a special fred’selevatorpitch tag just for this purpose.
Then Brad Feld pointed people to his for:bradfeld tag
Both of these guys probably get 1,000 unsolicited business plans per […]

Yesterday my wife and I went to Estes Park for the afternoon and did a little canoeing on the reservoir (satellite picture here). It was a beautiful day and we had a great time.
One thing I noticed, though, was there were a lot of Latinos there, well more than the 14% that the last census […]

As some of you may know, I’m very interested in doing business in China. Earlier this year my wife (who is Chinese) and I set up Escalan Beijing, an online marketing company that helps Chinese companies with pay per click marketing.
This company is run by my wife’s cousin, but we are now considering moving […]

Joel Comm, a friend of mine who’s been making a living online for many years, has released the second edition of his Google Adsense Secrets e-book(aff.). If you are using or considering using Adsense, I urge you to check this out. Success at AdSense is more than just slapping ads up on a page. Interestingly, […]