Business Disruptions and Management

April 22, 2012
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Business Disruptions and Management

If you have been in the airline,  media or electronics business in the past 10 years you have experienced Business Disruption’s accelerated pace.  Check the Business RIP notices at Wikipedia. But the following articles in Forbes about the impending  and ongoing demise  of  Sony, Best Buy and Eastman Kodak in the face of the...

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Wavii Start

April 15, 2012
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Wavii Start

One can tell the gold rush is on again on the Web to establish the next social media Instagram. What is different from 12 years ago at the apex of the Dot.com bust is the emergence of 3 things: 1)enormous computing IT capacity  in 3 areas – chips + memory = cheap but huge computing...

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Why did Google Close Picnik?

April 15, 2012
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Why did Google Close Picnik?

Back in 2008  Picnik was cited as one of the best online image editing sites in the business.  Two years later in 2010 there was another review  no less enthusiastic about Picnik after Google bought the software and added it to Picasa. Other recent reviews  put Picnik well above such competition as SplashUp and...

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Watch Tower Faith

April 12, 2012
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Watch Tower Faith

This morning I had a strange encounter with two women from the WatchTower organization. They came to the door holding the Bible and asking me if I believed in the Bible while quoting from Scriptures. Now to put this situation in context, I am rushing to finish some computing work for a later meeting...

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Two Superb, Free Online University Courses

April 1, 2012
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Two Superb, Free Online University Courses

Free online university courses have really hit their stride this quarter. Courses from Michigan, MIT, Stanford, University of California at Berkley are available now. Free course material has been available from a variety of sources. Near and dear to this blog  and web developer are the w3schools set of tutorials on all key coding in web...

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3 Troubling Events

March 29, 2012
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3 Troubling Events

There are three troubling events that are occurring and raise concerns about the ability of Body Commons that is the USA to “heal thyself”. The first is the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. A white shot a black youth in very questionable circumstances. It is the aftermath that is the concern. TheDailyBeast has been...

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Steve Jobs as Manager

March 21, 2012
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Steve Jobs as Manager

Steve Jobs as manager is being featured in an article by Jobs biographer, Walter Isaacson, in the the Harvard Business Review. Clearly, the piece by Isaacson is an apologia. Even the NYTimes has picked up the story because there are a wide range of attitudes towards Jobs management style. As a onetime Mac User...

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The Culture of Finance

March 14, 2012
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The following letter of resignation by Greg Smith from Goldman Sachs published at the NYTimes appears to provide proof that the Finance Vulture Culture has survived despite the onslaught of Bush and Obama administration legal prosecution cases against the financiers responsible for the Mortgage Meltdown and Financial Crisis. Now to be sure this Survival of the Fittest extends...

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The Wheels Are NOT Coming Off The Republican Party I

March 11, 2012
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The Wheels Are NOT Coming Off The Republican Party I

Ross Douthat at the NYTimes has written a spirited rebuttal of the notion that the Republican Primary Process has helped to scuttle the Party’s Presidential prospects. He insists that … well lets let Ross speak for himself: Let’s stipulate that this has not been the most edifying of primary seasons. The policy debates have...

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