Give a Laptop for Christmas
Wow. The One Laptop Per Child program has a great Christmas gift idea. For $399 you can donate a laptop to a child who needs it and get one of the OLPC laptops for the child in your home.
Goodbye Branding (It Doesn’t Matter What You Say)
“All of which is a problem. For forever and a day the marketing industry has worked on the basis that if you tell a good story about a product or service people will be engaged and intrigued. That story telling business is called the branding industry and it has been a great way to paper over little (or big) cracks in product lines. However, these days the growth of networked media means that millions of stories are being told about products - but not by marketeers.”
Who is Blogging and Why? Is the Blogosphere in a Digestion Phase?
Good information about a market I care about: “blogs”. Looks at who is making money, who is in it for a cause, etc.
Why Grown Ups Don’t Care About Social Networking
Kent Newsome makes the case that adults don’t care about social networking. I have too many CEOs and executives in my LinkedIn network to buy it.
The death of e-mail. - By Chad Lorenz - Slate Magazine
Email has it’s place, but it is no where near the center of communication it had once become.
For me, not only has email been declining, but my phone is handling more and more of my text communication.
