We > Me: Joe Morel's Blog

The girl that used to live in my place never changed her address for her Newsweek subscription, so I get Newsweek now. There’s nothing novel in the story linked to below, except that it’s been interesting to watch these new sites on the web ( Flickr ...

I didn't want to be the last one on my team to the blogging party today about mentioning that our team finally got its video posted to Channel9, but, hey, I had a root canal today. Take it easy on me. :) Check out the video here: http://channel9...

A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I had switched to a subscription-based music service (Yahoo! Music Unlimited) from my typical setup of iPod + iTunes that I had been using for a few years. During those few years that I used iTunes, I collected a...

I was a bit bored last night and started going to some common websites just to see what the Google PageRanks were (yes, I have Google Toolbar installed on my home machine.) I found that my MSN Spaces blog ( http://spaces.msn.com/moreljoe ) has a PageRank...

As early adopters of the new forum platform that the Microsoft.com team is developing at Microsoft, I spend quite a bit of time giving advice and guidance to other teams that are getting started on their own forums. Outside of the obvious technical support...

Last year at this time, I was wrapping up a Masters program over at good ole Case Western Reserve University in “Engineering and Management”…a program that was really geared around Technology Entrepreneurship. In the program, they spent quite a bit of...

Outside of the online communities space, one of my biggest passions is music and home entertainment. Not just electronics and stuff…I actually minored in music in college, have played piano since I was four, and have even been in a couple of performances...

What's it like working for a company the size of Microsoft? Some thoughts from a recent college hire......

As I blogged about on the DDCPX Blog ... "Updated binaries have been posted on GotDotNet for the TFS Administration Tool, making the tool compatible with the most recent version of Team Foundation Server (the Release Candidate). The new release...