Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Nice: The electronics retailer, facing larger competitors and falling sales, said Wednesday that it would lay off about 3,400 store workers — immediately — and replace them with lower-paid new hires as soon as possible. The laid-off workers, about 8 percent of the company’s total work force, would get a severance package and a chance […]

(I know this post is late to the ‘sphere – but it is my ezine for the week.) Every year at the South by Southwest arts festival (aka SXSW) geeks of all stripes meet to greet and gawk. It is like Burning Man except you get to keep your clothes on. Everyone was agog at […]

There’s been much gnashing of teeth and hand-wringing over Kathy Sierra from Creating Passionate Users receiving death threats from comments on other blogs and cancelling a recent public appearance. A Photoshopped picture of her with a pair of panties over her mouth and another picture of her next to a noose have also turned up. […]

From Lifehacker: When you think you’ve gone absolutely as far as you can, keep going. You’ve just reached the starting point. Breakthrough can’t happen until you pass the boundaries you believe are there in your life and thought. If you find a boundary, be happy. You’ve just found what you need to break through. Learning […]

NYTimes: IN an advertising campaign that began last week, Nissan left 20,000 sets of keys in bars, stadiums, concert halls and other public venues. Each key ring has a tag that says: “If found, please do not return. My next generation Nissan Altima has Intelligent Key with push-button ignition, and I no longer need these.â€? […]

Wayne hits the ceiling: I have hit my breaking point on people who are putting down the movie The Secret and why it doesn’t work. Many of these people are not making much money selling their own books and seminars so they take the principle of piggybacking media stories (Like the Secret) but use their […]

(via ChrisG) Sean D’Souza: Make sure you train your customers. Create a series of seminars both online and offline that help them learn. Demonstrate how others are using their software. Better still show these customers a bunch of case-studies. People just like them who started up with nothing and have used the software to make […]

Okay guys, if there is one thing that is 500% easier in Windows than it is in Mac it trying to find a Word document. I’ve used Finder’s search feature and looked for *.doc as well as Spotlight and looked for *.doc. Nothing is coming up. Darren recommended Quicksilver but it hurts my brain trying […]

Nice One major quirk: Used and new book sales are counted equally. So an author anxious about his sales ranking could put a few dozen of his books for sale for a penny apiece and ask a friend to buy them all. … Outside the top 1% or so of books, few sell multiple copies […]

Drew put out a call for advice to new college grads: I shake my head at the mistakes the grads make while trying to vie for my attention.  So I decided we (yes WE) could give them a gift that will put that digital camera to shame.  We can help them get that job. 1) […]