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Ghost of Social Media Future

Many forward-looking marketing people are exploring the varieties of social media. Getting a marketing message out is tough. I don't see why it is necessary to resort to deception and distortion to get a message out. I even see B2B marketers targeting engineers trying...

Obtaining news, RSS and Bill of Rights

I enjoy the high tech press (used to be called blogosphere). Sometimes I get news. Sometimes entertainment--abeit unintentional, I'm sure. There's a heck of a flap going on about whether Craig's List should censor certain kinds of content. Should prostitutes be...

Attitude is the Mother of Everything

It seems I've read in both science and philosophy my entire life. I can remember early in high school reading the complete works of Freud and studying what each of the 13 (or however many) grids in a vacuum tube did to current, voltage, impedance or whatever. It's no...

Benefit to aid Cystic Fibrosis Research

I was glad to see a note from my Canadian friend Jeremy Pollard who has been working for four years now on the O’Ryan Project Drive for the Cure -- Golf Tournament for Cystic Fibrosis - held this year June 17th, 2010 in Ontario. I send some support money along....

20 Years of Profibus

Got a surprise package in the mail a couple of days ago just in time to aid in my injury recovery. Big thanks to Mike Bryant and Carl Henning at PI North America (PTO) for sending a copy of "Milestones: Profibus -- 20 years of standards for industrial communication."...

Wireless Market Consolidation

Back to business. I thought wireless sensor networks would be a big boost of creativity and new business in our market. There's been some--but not much business for magazines since the business model seems to be selling. Here is a representative article I've found...

Wireless Benefits of Humor

This post sort of goes along with my last post, but I thought Greg McMillan should get his own post here. He is so right on. Wireless Benefits of Humor. If you don't have a sense of humor, what's the use of living? I'll tell you, when I was trying to wade through the...

Stillness, Passion, Creativity, Lifehacks

I've recently collected a few essays that seem to fit together a little. They center on the need to sometimes cultivate a private place to find stillness in your life. It's a good place to find your passion, obtain inspiration, find creative responses to life. The...

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