Category: General

Business and Blogging, a popular blog that’s part of the B5Media group, is a treasure of interesting articles. Great advice, combined with easy-to-read tips and resources, you’re bound to find something that can benefit you and your blog. Some recent articles included 1. Experts Say that Blogging Won’t Work for Your Business 2. How Many […]

The editors over at Inside CRM recently published a list of 101 Ways to Monetize Your Blog without Irritating Your Readers. It’s worth a quick review. Tara

Tim O’Reilly compares Web 2.0 and financial markets. Ever since I heard Bill Janeway point out that over time, Wall Street “firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf their activities on behalf of outside customers,” I thought, […]

From the yearly World Question center, this year their question is ‘What have you changed your mind about?’ Nicholas Carr muses: Like many others, I mistakenly interpreted a technical structure as a metaphor for human liberty. In recent years, we have seen clear signs that while the Net may be a decentralized communications system, its […]

Though I don’t agree with banning the word waterboarding (at least not until we ban the practice itself that or rename it Witchhunt Inquisition 2.0) I do agree with the implicit obnoxious for the term webinar. I’ve used it myself but always reluctantly. It is like infopreneur. Or cyberpreneur. Maybe Twuntinar? Lake Superior State Univestiry’s […]

As the son of two teachers and a veteran of honors programs since 4th grade I find this interesting: These students and teachers found the following cartoons helpful in understanding the comparison since high achievers, gifted learners, and creative thinkers co-exist in many classrooms. In the first cartoon, the teacher announces an assignment, and the […]

Glad to see this articulated. All the mash-ups and mix-ups of data and media and information depend on very loose and fluid alliances between indie devs and the larger media/web companies: But beneath all the kumbayas, there’s an awkward dance going on, an unregulated give-and-take of information for which the rules are still being worked […]

From the download squad: For the love of Apple, why is iTunes such a cow of an application? It is a media player! It should be light and the media should be heavy. Instead we have a bloated and increasingly complex application that takes so long to load, is so ugly, and takes up so […]

At least not for the first few years. The secret is because Starbucks doesn’t compete on price – they compete on [the third] place. Starbucks, on the other hand, is often more expensive than the local coffeehouse, and it offers a very limited menu; you’ll never see discounts or punch cards at Starbucks, nor will […]

Big hug! Americans haven’t just been taking out risky mortgages for homes in the last few years; they’ve also been signing larger automobile loans for significantly longer terms than they used to. As a result, people are slipping into a perpetual cycle of automobile debt that experts think could lead to a new credit crunch […]