*teefal wakes as from a long dream, picks up pen and paper, and begins again* Four months ago, we finished the fruits of our work, Tidepool and Storymill, our self-named "Project Realize." The plan after finishing was to engage the blogerati and publicize ourselves with links across the blogosphere. Instead, as such things in the web world usually do, someone stole our thunder: Flickr got bought by Yahoo a week after our launch. They soon snapped up the mindshare we were after; Flickr's become quite the phenonemena, in an area we were aimed directly at. For a while there, it...

Whenever I write a blog post, there's a small part of me thinking, "Who am I to be writing this? Just who could possibly care what I have to say?" I sit here typing words with the mild expectation that somebody out there will actually read them. I rarely know if people do, though from time to time I hear that someone has. Most times though, it feels like I'm whistling into the wind. And still I do it anyway. The very act of creating a blog carries with it a kind of "home movie" conceit. Each blogger thinks their...