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July 2008 - Posts
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:45 AM
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I flipped open my copy of the NYT this a.m. and was immediately agog at article and photos about why I should be wearing shorts to work, preferably with dress shoes, a tie and maybe even a jacket. Working in an industry that many consider to be relatively Read More...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 7:13 AM
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Lee Gomes unloads on technology in his column today, making the assertion that whoever the next president is, they should *not* have a computer in the Oval Office. He notes: The severe time rationing is necessary because a computer, far from making you Read More...
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Monday, July 28, 2008 9:16 PM
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There is a great line in an Ursula K. LeGuin book "A Wizard of Earthsea" where the lead character says: "For a word to be spoken, there must be silence, before and after." When I was in journalism school one of the things they Read More...
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 9:22 AM
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Sitting at the newly renovated Madison Park Playground with my eldest son last week, and he noted that the playground was quite safe. I demurred a bit -- it's a big playground, with climbing hooks and surfaces everywhere, and things spin and tip when Read More...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:40 AM
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One of the challenges of communication is that it's always easier to agitate/communicate/call to action with messages from the edge - things are black and white or good and bad. One person or company is a hero, the other is a villain. Today's NYT (in Read More...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:29 PM
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Sitting through a brainstorm session at the Fortune event, this one focused on the challenge of energy/global warming. Great group discussion that talked on almost all aspects of what it will take to solve one of the biggest problems the world faces -- Read More...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 3:05 PM
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Here's a clue that you are reading a trend story that is poorly reported: a bunch of PR folks are cited, and it's not a story about PR. Case in point: today's WSJ has a story about the inflation effect and eating lunch at the office. Okay, I'll Read More...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:54 AM
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All this coverage about the Obama New Yorker cover really shows the impact of weekly magazines on our national discourse. So much for print journalism being dead, eh? Written, of course, with the same sense of sentiment the New Yorker was striving for Read More...
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Monday, July 14, 2008 7:24 AM
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Over on his blog, James Fallows has been providing good perspective about the Olympics in China , and in particular some of the communications challenges, both communications in the country and the impact the communications flow from the rest of Read More...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 12:27 PM
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Couple of links saying essentially the same thing: 1. Jason sort of retires from blogging, in a poorly constructed post that could take lessons from Dan Lyons. Replaces with email list. 2. Mathew Ingram weighs in and says he believes Jason thinks Read More...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 7:23 AM
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Via this article in the WSJ, a great look at the buggy whip industry trying to hold back the tide of technology. In this case, the buggy whip industry is played by the textbook industry, which has not yet figured out that high profits and captive audiences Read More...
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Monday, July 07, 2008 6:47 AM
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Of course I’ve been reading all the controversy re: Violet Blue and Boing Boing. Who isn’t? It has everything you’d need for a great made for TV movie – ulterior motives, skulduggery, accusations of personal bias, rumors of personal relationships gone Read More...
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Friday, July 04, 2008 7:08 AM
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My blogging took a bit of a downward turn over the last few months as events at work have heated up. As I’ve noted before, there are only so many decent communications molecules in any given day, and there are times when I use all those up before I sit Read More...
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