Well, he was not really lost, just toiling like a madman over at Skype Journal, but he did stop blogging at Unbound Spiral. Sounds like the Stuart of old is reemerging, out of the fever dream that Skype seems to have been for so many in the ecosystem that grew around it.

[from Unbound Spiral]

I've recently felt pressure in some quarters to act more like a journalist. My answer is I'm not a journalist and never intended to be. It's not that I don't like interviews and following up on facts. It's just those aspects can become very time consuming. I'm much more interested in creating applications and solutions for tomorrow today.

Welcome back, pal. What you have outlined in this paragraph is the defining tension in my life these days. I work at staying abreast with new, developing social technologies and work hard at writing about where it is all going, or should be going. On one hand, that makes me look like a journalist, but I am not, really. And on the other hand, I have not succumbed to the siren call of going to build one of those fascinating applications that I fiddle with so much. I like the frontier, but I don't want to plow it. I don't even enjoy leading the wagon trains across the prairie very much: consulting to end users of these technologies can be really annoying. So I guess I will have to keep scouting around, mapmaking, surveying the territory, and scribbling these messages from the edge.