For more than a year now I’ve been thinking about how private blogs could be a better medium than email for communications within companies or between business partners. But that’s about where I left it.

Stowe Boyd has similar ideas, but he goes further and thinks outside the blox. Something like what he proposes could carry us a long way. Shall we ever see..?

I’d be happy to help make it happen.

Red vs Blue – Real Life vs Internet, for those who need help with the distinction. Thanks, Jim.

Internet? What’s that? Larry King has jumped the information shark. Thanks, Stowe Boyd.

And when you’re ready to experience the Internet in all its gory, try Microsoft Firefox: “where am I today?”

Loincloths and laptops: Way ahead of Larry King, natives in the Amazon use Google Earth to save the rain forest. Stone age to Silicon age in one lifetime. Thanks, Armchair Anarchist.

Speaking of progress: Doug Karr’s predictions for the next 25 years. We’ll still have monitors? Not much to look forward to as I approach my 70′s. Hey, wasn’t #7 attained by Fortran? Maybe I’m being unrealistic, but I’m expecting more fundamental changes.

Stonehenge a hangout for a pre-Celtic god of healing? That explains why it makes good Windows wallpaper. Thanks again, AA.

Joshua Allen has some more insights on the hubris of some scientists when it comes to religion:

They discover one universal truth (out of perhaps an infinite store), and they spend the rest of their careers trying to prove how stupid God and everyone else are.

Of course, I don’t believe in any “universal truth”, but it only makes Joshua’s argument stronger if you strike the word “universal”.

Sergio is doing all he can to promote OPML autodiscovery, including pimping my widget. Grazie, Kromeboy!

Widgets, you say? John Koetsier feels widgeted to death by Fred Wilson’s blog. Hey Fred: what, no tag cloud?

The dejargonator strikes again! In this installment, Mr. Greten censures the arcane obfuscations of academia. Uh, I mean, Dave rips papers you can’t read.

Lutz Winter sent me an e-mail this morning to tell me about the launch of Techcrush. This site sprang from the head of Stowe Boyd in full armor: Stowe proposed a site that would revisit apps six months after they debuted on TechCrunch to see how they had performed. Lutz and his associate Yves Luther have incarnated Stowe’s vision.

Techcrush sports a simple design and easy navigation. Each post starts with a quotation from the original TechCrunch review of an application, followed by a summary of what has befallen it since that time. As of this writing, the products reviewed so far are Flock and iKarma. I don’t use either of those apps, so I can’t comment on the veracity or depth of Techcrush’s coverage, but it seems fair and neutral in tone.

Techcrush isn’t only composed of product reviews, though. Each post also contains a reader poll:

Note the very web2.0ish voting buttons.

At the bottom of the main page, the “Top 10 Crushes” lists the highest scoring apps. You can probably guess what’s listed under the “Flop 10 Crushes”.

My one disappointment: the RSS feed is not full text. The front page only has summaries, too — but that’s a little more palatable since you’re already at the site. Subscribed anyway.

Techcrush seems to be everything Stowe asked for (Stowe is listed among the site’s “Associates” as well). I think the balanced reviews and reader polls may provide a nice complement to the snarkiness of Dead 2.0 and Valleywag in the cause of relieving bubble pressure.