Brian Gongol

It's hardly an active, widespread social-networking site...for now. But the company just isn't going to give up on the project. Guaranteed.

The more it becomes possible -- and even rewarding -- to have employee-free businesses, the more they're going to show up. Technology enables this. It's bad for people who just want to punch a clock or who aren't interested in making their own skill sets more valuable.

That includes Amazon.com. The Internet is great for consumers, but it can definitely be painful to the people who own the companies whose markets it undercuts.

A team of kids in Iowa City is using Twitter to say nice things about other people

Not all of them will be effectively asked in Washington, but they should be