Several Jupitermedia executives traveled out to Sioux Falls, South Dakota with me yesterday to visit with our new employees. It is quite a journey to get to Sioux Falls from the New York metro area, but the journey was well worth the time.

Many readers know that we recently purchased animationfactory.com. We felt it was a great fit with many of our other properties. The visit confirmed all of our feelings and more.

The AF team is loaded with talent and ideas. The staff was bubbling with enthusiasm. Over the coming months we will roll out several new AF products not to mention greater image production.

Back to travel notes. We feared a great plains snowstorm would restrict our movement in South Dakota. Instead we had a glorious sunny day. Now we are in Ottawa, Canada and the snow we feared in South Dakota has found us and blanketed this lovely city with about 8 inches of Canadian snow. Regardless we visit our Hemera team in Gatineau, Quebec this morning and then back to New York.