There is still a grand tradition in the executive level that any kind of grand pronouncement must be made during an assembly. And since this means the executive needs to be available in real time, said assembly will be some days off. The net result is getting an invitation to a meeting that looks like [...]
The tradition of “we’re going to have a meeting next week to tell you something important” needs to go away.
April 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
TV needs a paradigm shift
April 10, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In the early days of television, post-WWII, advertisers were cautious about how to best take advantage of the new medium. At first the networks and advertisers went with a sponsorship approach. An advertiser would pay for the production of an entire television series, and that series would prominently feature the advertiser in the show’s name [...]
Email cultures are more polite than telephone cultures.
April 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Hey folks – please learn to type. If you can type well, then you’re less likely to shy away from sending instant messages and emails. Related Book Strategic Business Letters and E-mail Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts Price: $12.76 An excellent reference for business email communications For routine work, I cannot STAND phone calls, for a few reasons: [...]
Forget Nostradamus – Let’s Talk “Pandora’s Box”
April 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
We’re all familiar with the story of Pandora’s Box – Zeus gave Pandora a beautiful container (actually a large jar in the original Greek) with instructions not to open it. Being human, Pandora was overtaken by curiosity, and opened the box, letting all the evils of the world escape. When she looked inside the box, [...]
Writer’s block
March 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Nope – things are just fine, and I’m tooling away. Honest.
No planking
March 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Honestly this is my reaction to just about any new “meme activity” From Five Second Films.
The Jobs/Wozniak Effect, or: “Why engineers need a business guy to be successful”
January 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
“HOW COMPUTER SCIENTISTS ARE TRYING TO STOP SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS FROM BREAKING THE INTERNET” is an article about what research is being done to deal with the explosion of devices connected to the internet. One example given is a routing technology being developed by one researcher to intelligently find closer copies of a file being requested. [...]
Philo’s Law of Copyrights
December 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
When a company makes it almost impossible to get content through them, they’re not saying you can’t watch or listen to it; they’re just saying they don’t want money for it.
Using WordPress Admin Themes to color-code multiple sites
December 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
If you manage a lot of WordPress sites, it’s possible to lose track of which site you’re working on while flipping back and forth. The way I keep my sanity is using the Easy Admin Color Schemes plug-in as a way of having a “WordPress Admin Theme” to change the color of the site’s admin pages. [...]
Dear YouTube – pull your head out of your ass.
December 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I went to YouTube to look up a video, and a popup helpfully suggested I use my Google+ account and full name on YouTube. I clicked “I don’t want to” and got this dialog, which blocked me from proceeding until I chose an option: Gee, YouTube – how about “I don’t want to list my [...]