Was at a B -B-Q recently, and I was the burger flipper. Not such a bad job … I could probably get used to it … maybe even saying “would you like fries with that” 500 times a day.
On the other hand … maybe not.
But it was interesting to see who went for the vegie […]

Scoble’s interview with the Google program manager:

This is huge … an environment for building applications locally that will sync globally. I can see thousands of major and niche applications for this.
Tags: google, gears, offline, sync, scoble, john koetsier

Do you have one of those cheesy motivational posters on your wall? In your company, somewhere? It’s probably something about teamwork, or hard work, or persistence, or excellence, or …
Boring! Old hat! Cheap! Manipulative!
Welcome Demotivators from Despair, Inc. Now these are fun. Their customer (dis)service page says “We’re not satisfied until you’re not satisfied.”
I like […]

While not straying too far off the beaten track for this blog, I just had to post a great quote.
It’s from Smoke Blanchard, mountaineer, hiker, traveller, guide, climber, trekker, truck driver, and about a thousand other things in between … and appropriately enough, it’s about life and career choices.

Most choices at the crossroads of […]

I hate Russians.
Not all Russians - just the ones who keep ruining the internet for the rest of us by running half the spam zombies on the planet.
The software that runs this blog (Wordpress) notifies me every time I have a new registered user - someone who can post comments, even write posts. A […]

Free business idea of the week, coming right up …

Rent a warehouse. Your bedroom will do until you get swamped with business.
Advertise that you will send people’s gifts to their loved ones after they die.
Collect people’s articles and store them safely. (OK, maybe the bedroom won’t work after all.) Charge them a small monthly sum, […]

I just got reminded today that you can’t sell someone the solution before they’ve bought the problem.
Which is why so much marketing is selling real or imagined problems.
Tags: problems, solutions, marketing, john koetsier

I was just wondering: what human needs drive web 2.0?

Participation
Wanting to be part of something
Belonging
Errr, sort of like participation but if participation is dating, belong is getting engaged
Creativity
Wanting to make something
Believing
Wanting to believe something
Meaning
Wanting to matter. Related to believing but is more the result of believing.
Becoming
Wanting to grow

That what I could come up with in […]

OK, so I called my father a savage today. Trust me, it’s not as bad as it sounds.
He called with a computer problem: he’s trying to install some application on his PC. Problem: he’s completely clueless about computers. So I’m doing the familiar dance … what happened, what does it look like, what do you […]

Well, add one more piece of data to the debate about whether Amazon hikes the prices of items that you put in your shopping cart but don’t buy.
(I’d link to the original story, but the LA Times is an SEO idiot.)

Every single one of the 5 books in my shopping cart is up … usually […]