After a longer break than initially planned I am back again to write about some of the things I come across on my travels on the Web.
The initial hiatus was due to me packing up my stuff and moving from Tokyo to Seattle. Here several months of getting papers, apartment, transportation and other not so interesting but necessary things have been keeping my life pretty busy and filled it with irregularity. Visitors from Iceland and Japan have also spent big parts of the summer here and kept me occupied along with some travelling I've done exploring Washington state.

It is interesting to think about how the world has changed with advancement in computer technology, even just in the last 5 years and mostly in the way it has affected our communications.

As I am writing this the Haiti earthquake news are all over the Internet and CNN is on in the background with somewhat more honest news reporting than expected. Catastrophic events such as those unfolding in Haiti show us the best and the worst of human kind as we hear of people lying and stealing in the mist of the shattered city of Port-au-Prince, while others travel thousands of miles to help out as the global community struggles to give a helping hand.

With the recent privacy changes on Facebook the question of our privacy on the internet is being asked on countless blogs and social networks. It is interesting how our personal world has gone from being few friends, family and coworkers to reaching out to thousands of people all over the globe. With websites like Facebook we are no longer bound to actually knowing our audience (in order to be heard), but rather to have something interesting to say.

Tired of looking over the run of the mill travel sites with their praises of being the ultimate web site for tourists? Well I am, especially after creating the LiveList for travel websites. So here is something totally different to bring back our enthusiasm for new places and new discoveries.

Seeing the newly launched website Seriously Good News, I felt compelled to have a quick chat with the founder. I called Grétar Hannesson at his house in Montreal, Canada, and asked him few questions.

It seems that every day there is a new Microblogging service popping up with slight variations to all the others. I decided to look at three of them; Tumblr, Posterous and TypePad.