From the Stadium to the Living Room — Is micro-social where it’s at?

Saturday, 30th of May 2009 at 07:14:37 AM

This past week, Google unveiled its new application, “Google Wave” which will be released later this year. (To see the presentation of Wave by Google, click below.)

Wave at once makes communication and collaboration easier and makes it more personal.  Think of it as combining the intimacy of e-mail and chat-rooms with the malleability of wikis [...]

May 30th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: social media | Leave a comment

Three O’Clock Breeze

Monday, 25th of May 2009 at 04:15:46 PM

I’ve spent this Memorial Day opening our place up in Montana.  It’s not a tough job and I get more than a few of hours of time enjoying the lake, learning how successful the resident loons have been in building and maintaining its nest, exploring the logging roads and being continually amazed by the views [...]

May 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: innovation, roadside tables, self discovery | Leave a comment

Did Dave Eggers create the social web?

Sunday, 17th of May 2009 at 05:44:14 AM

Actually, it’s silly to talk about anyone creating the social web.  Ideas get added, mixed, discarded, mutated and something emerges.  However, the social web requires some sort of notion of what identity is, and how it is shared. In his work, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Eggers writes about the freedom in sharing who [...]

May 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: self discovery, social media | Leave a comment

Fahrenheit 451

Tuesday, 12th of May 2009 at 03:40:32 AM

I am not a pack rat.  In fact, at home, I have a six-month rule — if we haven’t looked at or used something for over six months, out it goes.  (To be truthful, my wife has a separate rule which requires us to fill the basement to overflowing before we consider throwing anything out, [...]

May 12th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: business growth | One comment

Stationary Movement

Saturday, 9th of May 2009 at 04:39:22 AM

I’m a big fan of Joseph Campbell. Campbell reviewed religions and mythologies around the world to identify the common stories we tell to better understand ourselves and our place in the cosmos.  One point that Campbell made regarding Buddhism has stuck with me for many years. It’s the concept that every moment of time contains [...]

May 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: business growth | Leave a comment

Nothing ever happens until it happens for the first time

Wednesday, 6th of May 2009 at 06:16:30 PM

The above is a quote from the CFO of Goldman Sachs concerning the the current economy.  To me, this quote defines how we got to where we are. The financial models used to measure risk were 99% accurate.  Unfortunately, the 1% happened and it happened in a big way.  The 1% “Nothing” became a huge [...]

May 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: business growth | Leave a comment