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The Kid Has Class

April 23rd, 2010 | 2 comments

You can “engineer” a pro-style release, but you cannot simply conjure integrity and thoughtful leadership. Denver Broncos management knows this. The home team just gained another fan.

Signs of life for the economy?

April 5th, 2010 | No comments

Or a covert intelligence gathering operation by hostile forces? Student driver in a Mercedes E300! Flying the Swiss flag is a dead giveaway.

Google CEO channels Houston police chief

December 8th, 2009 | No comments

Google CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.” The if you’re not doing anything wrong meme rears it’s ugly head once again, only this time it’s the CEO of a company who’s business relies on the [...]

Facebook groups were not hacked and no one is at risk

November 11th, 2009 | No comments

Steve Ragan cuts through the FUD with a cleaver: Control Your Info (CYI), a group that exists to “draw attention to questions concerning online privacy awareness,” performed a few Google searches and discovered several Facebook groups without administrators. Thanks to the nature of the Facebook group system itself, if there is no administrator present, anyone [...]

The Social Media Guru

October 26th, 2009 | 4 comments

Show me to your computer, and I’ll hook your twitter to your facebook and plug your blog feed into my reader. Then, only if you’re good, I’ll ask my friends to follow you, and be nice to you, and maybe even comment on your posts until I tell them to stop or they get bored [...]

The audacity of telling it like it is

October 12th, 2009 | No comments

It’s nearly always fun listening to what Jeff Matthews is not making up on any given day, and his latest on “healthcare reform” is no different: Say what you like about healthcare reform—say that it is necessary, or it is unnecessary; say that it is just another government program bound to fail, or that it [...]

Most successful technology companies aren’t rocket ships

August 26th, 2009 | 2 comments

Christian Chabot at IPO Dashboards: Have you ever seen a business plan with hockey stick revenue projections? It’s common for VCs to receive business plans showing sales growing from $0 to $100m in the first 5 years of a company’s life. In fact, growth conversations between VCs and management teams often cause angst. One of [...]

Stuff YOU might have missed if YOU have been fly fishing too much – 07/13/09

July 13th, 2009 | 2 comments

Technology RSA’s Coviello: Cloud Computing Not Secure Enough [PC World] – Web 2.0 and widgets led to the cloud computing craze, so it’s no wonder security wasn’t part of the deal. Nonetheless, while RSA has a clear vested interest in pitching more secure web apps, I’m in complete agreement with Mr. Coviello. Only I don’t [...]

Stuff worth reading between boozing and barbecuing – 07/02/09

July 2nd, 2009 | No comments

Brought to you this one day only in true order of importance Fly Fishing Despite Economy Tackle and Fishing License Sales Holding Steady [Angling Trade Magazine] – When the going gets tough, the tough go fishing. Just like Lefty Kreh said they would. It’s an L.L. Bean gear review long weekend [Up'North Maine Fly Castings] [...]

Stuff I saved in my feed reader for the last ten days – 06/15/09

June 15th, 2009 | No comments

Technology Uh…Twitter something. [Everyone]* Let’s see…Facebook this and that? [Everyone]* *Editor’s note: we’re now actively filtering out all news related to Twitter and Facebook for efficiency’s sake – the above mentioned groundbreaking highlights were garnered through inference. Finance America: Now $8-to-$14 Trillion Poorer [Reason] – It’s very hard for some of us to feel any [...]