Posts from the ‘news’ Category
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Aug 24
When Bad Ideas Win
Steve Jobs on corporate culture:
“If you want to hire great people and have them stay working for you, you have to let them make a lot of decisions, and you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win, otherwise good people don’t stay.”
How many institutions, organizations, and causes lose good people due to frustration about bad ideas and pet projects being favored ahead of good ideas?
Jun 21
Huntsman Campaign Typo
ABC World News snapped this photo at U.S. Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman’s campaign kick-off speech. The image shows an embarrassing typo on a press badge issued to an ABC reporter for the event.
ABC posted the image briefly to photo sharing service Instagram before hastily removing it. However, they couldn’t delete it before yours truly was able to snap this screen shot.
Can you spot the flub? Read more
the end of my world
I was waiting for the end of the world last night and I made you these flowers with a little painting app on my phone.
You’re welcome.
Consider this your little “reward” for surviving the first wave of earthquakes, zombies, and the deadly army of Justin Bieber clones. Read more
A “Whopper” of a Storm
During a terrifying series of tornadoes that ripped through the South, this man’s frightening story encapsulates the horror and tragedy…
He lost his burger. Then thanks his fans with a song.
Truly a triumph of the human spirit.
First watch this…
Then watch this….
How Kindles could fire up newspaper sales
It’s old news that newspapers and other print periodicals are struggling to compete with digital media. Individuals in my demographic are giving newspaper execs grey hairs because I — and my fellow 20-somethings — just don’t find the daily rags all that appealing. But, the London Review of Books recently offered an interesting path for print purveyors to go from rags…to riches. It involves Amazon’s kindle….Live at NRB
I’m going to be micro blogging live from Nashville at NRB 2011. “Micro” as in, my posts will be very short and only a very small segment of the population of earth will even care.
But…If you fit in that tiny NRB demographic that’s into a micro blog like this, then click here to launch the tiny live feed.
You never know who will pop up!
