The world’s worst professional services invoice
In today’s New York Times, a front-page article in the Business section concerns the legal difficulties of famed plaintiff’s lawyer Richard Scruggs, one of the authors of the multi-billion dollar...
View ArticleHow is the Getty Museum different from Enron?
It’s not a trick question. There may be little difference at all. The Getty is one of several museums that have been accused of systematically acquiring stolen antiquities. (The Getty last year agreed...
View ArticleThe new gamer: social and casual
The New York Times’ astute video games columnist, Seth Schiesel, has written an article explaining the current state of the videogame industry, with insightful comments from speakers at the recent Game...
View ArticleOld technologies hang on for decades
What do radio, mainframe computers and photocopiers have in common? They were all predicted to die a quick death at the hands of a successor technology, and all are still here today. The New York Times...
View ArticleCan mobile phones eradicate poverty?
This past winter I had the opportunity to spend a night working at a local homeless shelter. It was an unforgettable night for many reasons, including the memory of huddling around a radio with four...
View ArticleThe new media onslaught is making entrepreneurs out of creators
An article from the New York Times earlier this week (”Bridging The Gap, The Sequel“) starkly illustrated that venture capitalists from Silicon Valley and creative types from Southern California are...
View ArticleFood doesn’t only have to be fresh, it needs a story as well
This from today’s New York Times (”Food-Shopping Tips Direct From the Manager,” by Ron Leiber): Not every grocery store bothers to highlight local products. So you may need to ask what comes from...
View ArticleZuckerberg learns
I didn’t like much of what I read about Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. Seemed like a bratty kid, ego on overdrive. The questions about perhaps appropriating the idea from Harvard classmates...
View ArticleIs it time to downsize that big house?
Friends of ours, as their small business grew, moved up into a large, spacious house with a big deck and yard overlooking a creek. Business is still good, but this month they are moving back to the...
View ArticleWhy doesn’t the New York Times take advantage of the web’s most basic feature?
I read the New York Times website regularly. But I have one significant complaint. Articles on the website do not hyperlink to anything outside the Times archive. As such, the articles don’t have the...
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