Thoughts on Leadership, business, innovation, and technology
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Friends, Although I usually don’t comment on politics, there is upcoming legislation that I felt could not go unnoticed. As many of you already know, Congress has been working to pass two pieces of legislation, the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), that I believe would be devastating to many of [...]
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I have been reading “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” by Seth Godin. This is an outstanding book. Today I came across the following comment. I apologize that I do not have a page reference, I am reading it on my Kindle. Wikipedia and the shared knowledge of the Internet make domain knowledge on its own worth [...]
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I can’t believe I am blogging about this on the day after the iPad officially hit the street. I received an email the following email from Amazon yesterday: As a Kindle subscriber to New York Times, you might like to know that effective April 2, 2010, the New York Times has raised its price to [...]
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Between travel, family activities, and a couple of bad days with the flu, I have not been able to post for a few days. I have been able to read and spend some time thinking about education. I will share that in a separate entry. While researching the topic, I came across this great video [...]
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Remember when oil prices peaked out in 2008? Check out this chart: Just looking at the prices in 2008 brings back all the angst of that summer. Today, prices seem to have stabilized. Credit a combination of reduced demands, driven down by the economic crisis, and a glut in supply. While I am not a [...]
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In a December 30, 2009 blog entry, I shared a few thoughts regarding TSA effort to implement full-body scans at airport security at major US airports. Recall that the TSA claimed to protect privacy and that the images cannot be stored. There are a number of other claims, refer back to the blog entry and [...]
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Remember the scene in True Lies (1994) where Arnold walks behind the ‘screen’ and you see his skeletal image? Well, welcome to True Lies, 2009. I read an article in a Fast Company blog today titled “Full-body Scanners at Airports: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly“. It included a few sample full-body images, include [...]
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