A few years ago a colleague pointed me to ChangeThis, a site that publishes author submitted manifestos about business, politics, technology, and change. Why write a manifesto? “We’re betting that a significant portion of the population wants to hear thoughtful, rational, constructive arguments about important issues” (from the ChangeThis Manifesto). Some of my favorite… Read More
According to the New York Times and the AOL website, AOL has made the move they’ve been discussing for weeks now. From the New York Times: “AOL will stop marketing its highly profitable Internet access service and offer most of its main features free. As a result, it expects to lose more than half of… Read More
Yesterday the Wall Street journal published an article discussing how people are leaving eBay and Yahoo to work at web start-ups: Web Start-Ups Lure Executives At eBay, Yahoo (subscription may be required). Here are some of the reasons given for these departures (all emphases added). “…he was happy to trade the big salary and bonus… Read More
David Worlock, CEO of EPS Limited, published an article today (as part of the EPS Insights service) discussing Google and the semantic web. He caught my interest with his account of how Google was reacting to a potentially radical change in their market: semantic web searching. While attending the Boston meeting of the American Association… Read More
This was a featured video on YouTube today. What happens when the customers take over?!… Read More
Every once in a while a story comes along and you check the calendar to see if it’s April 1st. Today was one of those days. The New York Times published For CBS’s Fall Lineup, Check Inside Your Refrigerator. “The network plans to announce today that it will place laser imprints of its trademark eye… Read More
According to the New York Times, Jonathan Miller, AOL‘s chief executive, is presenting a proposal to Time Warner “…calling for a near halt in marketing for AOL’s 17-year-old Internet access service, price cuts for existing customers and thousands of layoffs…His [Mr. Miller’s] goal is to devote all of AOL’s energy into building its free Web-based… Read More
Yesterday in the Opinion section of the New York Times, Dean Baquet, editor, The Los Angeles Times, and Bill Keller, executive editor, The New York Times published an article about the responsibility of the press: When Do We Publish a Secret? The investigative process of considering several sources, analyzing information to look for anomalies, investigating… Read More